185

30 Ibid.



186

31 Daily Express, 6 April 1923, p. 1.



187

32 This appears to have been Algernon Maudslay (1873–1948), a public servant, 
although the authors have been unable to verify this fact.



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33 Gardiner, pp. 39–40.



189

34 Reeves, p. 62.



190

35 Hoving, p. 221.



191

36 Letter from Lord Carnarvon to Howard Carter, December 1922 — January 1923, 
source unknown, quoted in Hoving, p. 153.



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37 Weigall, Tutankhamen And Other Essays, p. 96.



193

38 Ibid., p. 89.



194

1 Brackman, The Search for the Gold of Tutankhamen, p. 114.



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2 From a conversation between Anthony Leadbetter, a surviving godson of Almina, 
Countess of Carnarvon, and the authors on 3 August 2001.



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3 Carnarvon, Ermin Tales: More Memoirs of the Earl of Carnarvon, 1980, p. 16.



197

4 Ibid.