£36,000 compensation. The Carnarvons' only son, Henry Herbert (1898–1987), succeeded his father as sixth earl. High Court case In December 1923, eight months after Lord Carnarvon's death, Lady Carnarvon married Lieutenant Colonel Ian Onslow Dennistoun, a retired Grenadier Guards officer. In 1925, Almina was involved in a much-publicised High Court case, known as the "Bachelor's Case", between Colonel Dennistoun and his former wife, Dorothy Dennistoun. When they had divorced, Dennistoun had been unable to pay ancillary relief and instead had promised he would provide for his ex-wife in the future, when he had funds. After hearing about Almina's wealth, Dorothy Dennistoun demanded the alimony she had been promised. Almina saw this as blackmail and persuaded her new husband to contest the claim in the courts, in what Sir Henry McCardie, who tried the case, called "the most bitterly conducted litigation I have ever known". A courtroom speech by Norman Birkett persuaded the jury to decide to disregard the agreement of Dennistoun to pay ancillary relief to his former wife. Later life After the death of Lord Carnarvon, Almina was provided with a house in the grounds of Highclere Castle, before she and Colonel Dennistoun moved to the Isle of Wight. Colonel Dennistoun, an asthmatic, often suffered from poor health and died in 1938. Almina then rented a house in Regent's Park in London, before moving in 1943 to a cottage near Minehead in Somerset. Although she received financial support from her son, she continued to live well above her means and faced mounting debts, and in 1951 she was declared bankrupt. Almina sold her Somerset cottage and moved to a terraced house in Bristol, where she lived with her housekeeper and companion Anne Leadbetter. Almina died on 8 May 1969 aged 92 at the Frenchay Hospital, Bristol. References Sources External links Highclere Castle, home of the Countess. Official website 1876 births 1969 deaths Almina British countesses Rothschild family People from Highclere