The true story that formed the basis of the famous TV series “Downton Abbey”! A touching story of the amazing life of a woman who wanted to do good for people and for whom the word “patriotism” was not an empty phrase. Her name was Almina Womwell, and she was only nineteen years when she - the richest heiress in Europe, a beauty nicknamed the “pocket Venus” - married the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, one of the pillars of secular society and the future discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun. What made the queen of London social salons, when the First World War began, forget about social entertainment and turn the illustrious family estate of Highclear into a hospital for soldiers, where she herself worked as a simple nurse, helping hundreds of people survive? How did a woman from high society become a national heroine of Great Britain?