![]() ![]() ![]() ‘We will be watching it,’ the Countess declares of the service. ![]() Instead, ‘Geordie’, as the Queen always called him, and his wife, Fiona, will watch proceedings from afar, most probably at Highclere Castle, the spellbinding family seat which achieved global renown after the hit ITV drama Downton Abbey was filmed there. Yet I can reveal that, despite this intimate bond – so intimate that he attended the Committal Service at Windsor, when Her Majesty was laid to rest in St George’s Chapel – the Earl of Carnarvon will not be at Westminster Abbey on Saturday. She had, by then, already cradled him in her arms – not least at his christening, at which she became his godmother. So entwined has his life been with that of the Royal Family that his earliest memory is of being brought in to see Queen Elizabeth when she visited his parents’ house in the late 1950s. ![]()
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