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" The real-life location of Downton Abbey is advertising for a new assistant butler. Highclere Estate - home to the historic Highclere Castle that doubles as the Crawleys&amp;#039; on-screen stately home - has placed an advert on its website for a new member of household staff.   As well as being the location of the ITV1 drama, Highclere Castle also houses the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon and their family. The recruitment notice says that they are looking for &amp;quot;a keen and enthusiastic person to perform both family butler and banqueting duties&amp;quot;. The advertisement continues: &amp;quot;Experience in the hotel or fine dining industry is important, as is an outgoing personality keen to engage and provide a top-class service to a wide range of people. A knowledge of wine and fine food is useful.&amp;quot; The drama was recently said to be inspiring an increase in castle holidays, with Wimdu.co.uk reporting a 45% increase in requests for stately homes in September. Downton Abbey currently airs on Sundays at 9pm on ITV1 in the UK, and will return to US screens in January 2013 on PBS. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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