Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon


Henry George Reginald Molyneux Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon, , was a British peer and racing manager to Queen Elizabeth II from 1969. He was the only son of The 6th Earl of Carnarvon by his wife Catherine Wendell. From his birth until September 1987, he was known by the courtesy title Baron Porchester.

Marriage and children

Like his father, Carnarvon fell in love with an Anglo-American, Jean Margaret Wallop, of Big Horn, Wyoming. The Wallop family were also members of the English nobility not far from the Earls of Carnarvon. The head of the Wallop family is the Earl of Portsmouth. The two were married on 7 January 1956 in St. James' Episcopal Church in New York City.
The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon had three children:
He served as a lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards, and later become Honorary Colonel of the 116th Engineer Regiment.
Lord Carnarvon was best known as a lifetime personal friend of Queen Elizabeth II's and as the manager of her racing stables. The Queen called Lord Carnarvon "Porchey", after the courtesy title he used before succeeding to the earldom of Carnarvon upon the death of his father, the sixth earl. After his own death he was succeeded as the Queen’s racing manager by John Warren, a former stable boy who had worked with Lord Carnarvon at his stud farm and had married his daughter Carolyn.
Carnarvon was an independent member of the Hampshire County Council and became its Chairman. He was also the Chairman of the South East Economic Planning Council.
He was invested as a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1982.
He died on September 11, 2001.

Cultural depictions

He is featured as a character in the first three seasons of the Netflix drama The Crown, portrayed by Joseph Kloska in the first two seasons and John Hollingworth in the third season.