Lady Carnarvon was born Almina Victoria Marie Alexandra Wombwell, however; she was actually the illegitimate daughter of Baron Alfred de Rothschild, a member of the great Jewish banking family.

Almina’s mother was Marie Boyer, a woman of French descent, who married Frederick Wombwell a brother of Sir George Wombwell of Newburgh Park, Yorkshire. There was one son, a half-brother to Lady Carnarvon, Frederick Charles Wombwell, who died in 1912, aged only 42. When Marie and Wombwell were estranged Alfred de Rothschild became her lover and father to Marie’s second child.

Wife of George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon an English aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in Valley of the Kings.