![]() ![]() In 1948 he was awarded the US Bronze Star Medal. During the War he held a number of staff positions in England, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. ![]() In March 1940, Lord Carnarvon re-joined the 7th Hussars as a lieutenant. His mother remarried only eight months after the death of her first husband. ![]() On becoming Earl, he took on responsibility for the upkeep of Highclere Castle and its 4,000 acre estate. The new earl's view of the suggested 'Curse of Tutankhamun' was that "however sceptical I might have been, I could not dismiss the matter out of hand", claiming that the moment his father died on 5 April in Egypt, the family dog howled and died a sympathetic death at Highclere Castle, the family seat. He inherited the Earldom of Carnarvon in April 1923 on the death of his father – who had funded archaeologist Howard Carter's search for the tomb of Tutankhamun. During the First World War he served with the 7th Queen's Own Hussars in India and Mesopotamia, remaining in the army after the war. He was educated at Ludgrove School, Eton and Sandhurst. Styled Lord Porchester from birth, he described in his memoirs an unloving upbringing by his parents, spending much of his time with his grandmother Marie "Mina" Wombwell ( née Boyer). He was the son of George, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, and Almina Wombwell. Henry George Alfred Marius Victor Francis Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon (7 November 1898 – 22 September 1987), was a British peer. ![]()
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