This woman was the mother of Evelyn and Jonathan Carnahan and the wife of Howard Carnahan. Her features had passed onto Evelyn, and was known to have been, along with her husband, the finest patrons of the Cairo Museum until their untimely deaths in a plane crash, said to be caused by the curse of a mummy that Howard had helped find. According to her daughter, Mrs. Carnahan was an adventurer and a woman of beauty.