article_snippet: I try not to lie awake at night worrying about money,’ Lady C says.
article_snippet: On sleepless nights, Lady C roams the Highclere corridors, and likes to sleep in Lady C son’s bed when her son’s bed is at boarding school.
article_snippet: Lady C soothes Lady C by listening to the Shipping Forecast on Radio 4, feeling grateful that Lady C is not ‘alone in a boat on the ocean’.
article_snippet: Lord Carnarvon first met Lady C husband at a dinner party where they bonded over a love of World War I poetry.
article_snippet: Lady C former lover, an eccentric cove called Sir Benjy Slade, had sued Lady C for the return of a pet labrador and claimed Lady C was ‘the ruthless golddigger of the year’.
article_snippet: the Carnarvons had recently separated from the Carnarvons first wife and two young children; Lady C was grieving over the early death of both Lady C parents.
article_snippet: It is to Lady C credit that Lady C does all Lady C work on Highclere in the full knowledge that it is Lady C husband‘s son, not hers, who will inherit the Lady Carnarvon title and all the lands.
article_snippet: ’ Lady C Geordie appear to have a healthy working partnership, one that Lady C describes as ‘50/50 with a one per cent swing either way.
article_snippet: Lady C transition from confident and capable young woman to countess is fascinating.
article_snippet: I would hate to be considered snobbish,’ Lady C says, although Lady C learned, in the upper class way, to use charm as a weapon to get what Lady C wants.