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He never ever saw the inner coffin of the mummy, certainly not the gold mask.
That was the iconic object of Tutankhamun and he never saw that.
The first time my great-aunt Evelyn saw that was when it came to the British Museum exhibition in 1972.
He said he wanted The Times to disseminate the information immediately and free to the Egyptian press
and then to the Newbury Weekly News, his local paper here
And then The Times would be able to charge all the other newspapers: the Daily Mail, Telegraph..
there were many more different papers such as those around today including the American ones.
All the other press then went crazy because they would then have to pay The Times
and it's going to be a day late.
And in journalism, speed is of the essence, even then, and they were really pissed off.
It gave Carnarvon £5000 which was quite a lot of money then, because he was paying for all the excavation costs.
He had Christmas here; he and his wife asked all of Howard Carter's family here for lunch.
When he was in England, he went and saw King George V and Queen Mary and told them all about it,
and then he went back to Egypt in January, to finish excavating the first room to have a grand opening
with the Queen of Belgium, because she was very keen in Egyptology in February.
Carnarvon was very slim, very fragile and bad health problems.
Carter walked with a stick because he kind of dressed like Carnarvon,
he kind of aped many of his clothes as he respected him so much.
He wasn't in strongest health, and all the stress – he couldn't walk down the street without being tackled by somebody!
On the boat, everybody wanted to know, everybody was writing in asking
“Can I please have something from Tutankhamun's tomb? It'll bring me luck!”
The letters from the Griffith Institute from the fan clubs which were overwhelmed.
So you got Luxor being overwhelmed, you got journalists camping in the Winter Place, hotel rooms being sold out.
Everybody claimed to know Lord Carnarvon, everybody was related to him, everybody wanted to be there.
Big thing, and this man was 5'10 and under 9 stone, and they knew what was in the first room, and had apparently later gone through and seen the the shrine walls.
And they were both exhausted, completely exhausted.
In the hassle of all the press and having to deal with everything, he just went down on his boat to Aswan
and in the process got stung by a mosquito on his face, which he didn't look after very well and the wound went septic.
The famous story is that he cut it with one of those steel cut-throat razors and didn't put iodine oil on it and he got septicaemia.
So he struggled through March – sometimes better, sometimes worse
with really what was blood poisoning, but it didn't really, amazingly, didn't kill him, but finally he got weak
and he half recovered from that and then he got pneumonia, when someone else came. There weren't antibiotics, so he very sadly succumbed.
Howard Carter spent the last month of Carnarvon's life with him.
There were rumours that they had a huge argument, split up and never spoke which is not so.
The minute Carnarvon was really ill in Cairo, Howard Carter left the Valley of the Kings and rushed up there.
He died in April 1923, so his family lost control of the project.
Howard Carter did a wonderful job working for my Great-Grandmother up to 1930
carefully taking everything out of the tomb bit by bit and it's all in the Cairo Museum.
At the time, Egypt was acknowledged as an English protectorate, but England shared it with France.
England's main aim in Egypt was not to conquer Egypt – they just wanted a stable country because that was part of their route to India.
There was a lot of difficult politics after he died in terms of how the tomb was to be excavated.
There was a question of if it was an intact tomb, most of it would stay in Egypt; if it wasn't an intact tomb, they could come back to, or some could come back to the excavator.
But I think in the case of Tutankhamun, there would have been some duplicate objects that they would have been able to have, but they would have been better than nothing at all.
It has to be said that Great-Grandfather was a soothing, diplomatic influence at the highest level in Great Britain and local Egyptian people.
And again, it was a big loss of support – an anchor – to Howard Carter when he died.
And he spent all his money. By the time he died, Bretby had gone, Somerset had gone, most the houses in London had gone
and quite a lot of the land around here had gone. So he spent his fortune.
Finally, later on in the 30's, my Grandfather was rewarded with a compensation for the work done after the find.
Never all the many years leading up to it, either outside the Valley or the rest of it.
So there was something back from the Egyptian government.
In some ways the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb was a curse, certainly for both men
and it was desperately upsetting for Lord Carnarvon's wife, and daughter and son
and the estate who had lost a wonderful man who was only 56 years old.