Downton Abbey (2010-2015) is a British television period drama series, created by Julian Fellowes and co-produced by Carnival Films and Masterpiece.The series, set in the fictional Yorkshire country estate of Downton Abbey, depicts the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era with the great events in history having an effect on their lives and . And I'm very pleased he did.". When she does, Alfred apologises to her, regretting being blinded by his infatuation for Ivy and failing to see how good and true Daisy had been to him. AlthoughDownton Abbey: A New Era ends with a tragic death of a beloved character, the sequel also marks new beginnings for the Crawley family and their servants. She was initially opposed to Matthew's relationship with Mary Crawley, but after the death of his fiance she helped persuade him to propose to her again, which he did, and Mary happily accepted in January 1920. "Have you changed your pills?" Moseley lost status by working at Downton as a footman and valet as well as other odd jobs until his knowledge and skillset led to a new career as a teacher. The next day, Vera is found dead from ingestion of rat poison. In the second film, Mary has a flirtatious relationship with a film director named Jack Barber, but she stays faithful to Henry. The pair share a happy day with their friends and family around them, before going on a trip to the French Riviera where they later discover Tom's daughter Sybie will inherit the luxurious villa. He dies hours later. As a result she left Downton for France to work with the Red Cross. Rupert Christiansen, writing in The Telegraph, bemoaned the casting and the fact checking.[23]. Richard "Dickie" Grey, Lord Merton (played by Douglas Reith) is Mary's godfather and a widower with at least two sons, Larry and Tim Grey. Carlisle leaves the morning before the Servants' Ball, but not before revealing that he did genuinely love her. The tale becomes known to other members of the family after it becomes a rumour in London. When Green returns to the Abbey, Bates is further convinced of his guilt. Historical Fiction Lavinia Catherine Swire (played by Zoe Boyle) (18951919) is the sweetheart and fiance of Matthew Crawley. Thomas Ferguson Niall Branson (played by Allen Leech) was initially the family chauffeur, employed in series one. He is now being considered as a match for Lady Mary (his fourth cousin), and has been brought to live on the estate so that he can learn about his patrimony. "She can be as honest. Barrow and Ellis became friends but, in A New Era, Thomas received the sad news that the King's Valet got married. He is a past lover of Thomas, at the time first footman, but this affair ends in autumn 1912, after the duke visits Downton under the pretext of courting Mary, then tricks her into leading him into the servants' quarters, where he retrieves a packet of love letters to prevent Thomas from blackmailing him over the affair. He previously served in the Army alongside the earl as his batman during the Boer Wars and suffered an injury to his right leg. Related: Downton Abbey's Movie Is Just The TV Show Again (& That's Why It's Great). What makes them work: "Isobel is an upper-middle-class, educated, sensible woman and not caught up in the dying aristocratic way of life," says show creator Julian Fellowes. His aunt is Sarah O'Brien, who brings him forward as a candidate for the empty post based on his previous experience as a waiter at a hotel. Cora is surprised but confused. Later, when Kemal Pamuk, an Ottoman diplomat, visits Downton, Thomas attempts to kiss him. After a long and somewhat secretive courtship she married Mr Bates in the end of the second series in a private ceremony at a registrar's office. Finally, Lady Isobel Merton is happily married to Dickie Grey, Lord Merton (Douglas Reith). During the Great War, after William is brought back to Downton mortally wounded, the Dowager Countess summons him to wed William and Daisy before William dies. Through careful manipulation of both Thomas and Jimmy, O'Brien crafts a situation in which Thomas is caught publicly making a move on Jimmy, who reacts in fear and anger, as male homosexuality was still illegal in the 1920s. She names her son Charlie after his father, before moving away from Downton to start a new life. In 2019's Downton Abbey movie, the Dowager Countess told Mary that she was deathly ill, but the grand dame fought on into the sequel, which is set about a year or two after. Contemporary Era Fiction Her son was declared heir to the estate, and so she followed him to the grand manor, although currently they live in town rather than on the grounds of the estate. His father was a local farmer and William used to help with the horses. Unfortunately the dinner does not go according to plan. In the introduction, Strobel lists what he calls Christianity's "Big Eight Conundrums"including many of the questions that Secular Web author Paul Doland continually asked himself when he was still a Christian. Though Jack loves her, he fears the repercussions of an inter-racial romance. From the start it is clear that Lord Grantham finds Jane attractive and he takes a great interest in the education of her twelve-year-old son, Freddie. Andy tries to break ties with Thomas, on account of Mr Carson, Mrs Hughes, and Mrs Patmore informing him that Thomas is a homosexual. The older Mr Mason later explains to Daisy that William was his only surviving child and he had realised that William married Daisy not just because he cared for her but so his father would have someone to keep company. For her explosion of anger, she almost loses her job, but Cora, who understands her frustration and anger, talks Carson into letting her stay. Vera Bates uses the story to blackmail Bates into going back to her, which he does to save Anna's reputation. Shortly after their wedding night, Bates is arrested for murdering his previous wife, although Anna and the rest of the residents at Downton are convinced that he is innocent. The intended dinner conversation quickly becomes a heated argument in front of the bemused minister, and the Earl of Grantham collapses from a perforated ulcer, ending the gathering while he is rushed to hospital. Laurel Ann Nattress, editor. However, Robert is, indeed, the Earl of Grantham. Mrs. Crawley: Matthew Crawley's (widowed) mother, Isobel. She and Matthew both moved to Downton to start their new lives, where they lived in Crawley House with their new butler/valet Joseph Molesley, their cook May Bird and their housemaid who moved from Manchester with them. They then take this to Robert who ensures that the witness makes a statement, then tries to contact Bates. She is especially bitter and resentful towards most of the other servants, perhaps due to her family circumstances; the animosity is common knowledge, even for the Crawleys. When Matthew returns from the First World War injured she refuses to leave him despite being told that he will never walk again and is impotent. She assumes that Mary wants to marry again, at which point she is delighted and congratulates her, and is later invited to the wedding. The judge voids the divorce decree, with the result that Vera and John are still legally married. In the meantime, Bertie's unmarried cousin dies of malaria in Tangiers. After the Crawleys are reunited at Downton, their servants are thrilled to play extras in The Gambler, the "talkie" film directed by Jack Barber (Hugh Dancy) and starring Guy Dexter (Dominic West) and Myrna Dalgleish (Laura Haddock). Daisy and Andy were eager to help Mr. Mason move on so she helped reignite Mason and Patmore's interest in each other. Bates returns to London with her to live in his mother's home but soon separates after learning that she has been unfaithful to him. Isobel remains the almoner and happily supports the change. In series four, Barrow is as shocked as anyone when his old ally Miss O'Brien leaves Downton in the middle of the night. This engagement is broken off and during the war he is injured. Later, Amelia Grey begins to persuade Isobel to marry Lord Merton, which would allow Amelia to control the household while Isobel should become his nurse. As Cora reflected, her family has seemingly left the turbulent years behind them and are all in happy places. Gwen Harding (born Dawson) (played by Rose Leslie) was a housemaid at Downton. Freda Dudley Ward (Janet Montgomery) asks Rose for help after a compromising letter from the Prince of Wales is stolen from her handbag by Sampson. In episode 2, Bates discovers Anna yet again upset, after having told Lady Mary about her pregnancy problems. Fanny Price Though Prince Kuragin was subsequently released, he learned that his wife had been exiled a year before. However, when he goes to reclaim the dog, he discovers her missing, and in his panic trying to find her in the woods, trips on several fallen branches and becomes muddied. He asks her if she had ever considered adoption, but she tells him that the idea would never work for him nor her as they would want their own child. However, when Tom Branson speaks to her about his own experiences in learning to live with the Crawley family despite their differences, she is inspired to make her marriage work. Edith accepts him, and they marry on New Year's Eve 1925. Edith struggles with revealing the truth about Marigold to Bertie before accepting him. Countess of Grantham (deceased) Mr Crawley (deceased) wife: The Hon Mr Crawley (deceased) wife: Patrick Crawley 6th Earl of Grantham (deceased) Violet Crawley Dowager Countess of Grantham : Isidore Levinson (deceased) Martha Levinson: Roberta: husband: Dr. Reginald Crawley (deceased) Isobel Grey Baroness Merton (formerly Mrs Crawley, ne Turnbull) Although scheming in nature and always looking to manipulate circumstances to her and Thomas's benefit, she has a conscience and softens up over the second series. Catherine Morland Below barons are two ranks of non-peers: Baronets and Knights. Matthew and Mary fall in love, but circumstances separate them, and Matthew becomes engaged to Lavinia Swire. Mary struggles to move past her grief, but after the discovery of a letter from Matthew stating he intended to name Mary his sole heiress, she recovers and begins helping her father and brother-in-law Tom manage the estate. He would be addressed as Sir Anthony by everyone, or, less formally, Strallan by friends and family. He continues to notice the change in her mood after Anna tells Mary that she believes she is pregnant again. She resists claiming her widow's pension as she thinks it wrong to claim money for marrying a man that she liked but would have not married under normal circumstances. Before the war, he worked for Lady Anstruther and was her favourite footman. Over the next few weeks she continues to help while Drake has taken a liking to her. Though Strobel generally does a . Evelyn Napier (played by Brendan Patricks) is the son and heir of Viscount Branksome and a suitor for Lady Mary, but later becomes engaged to "one of the Semphill girls". Swag - to Violet and Cora about. Amused instead of scandalised at the revelation, Grantham gently declines Carson's offer, ending the matter as a non-issue. The Dowager Countess also shared a lovely final moment with Tom and Lucy Branson that reflected on how the former chauffeur once caused chaos by eloping with the late Lady Sybill (Jessica Brown-Findlay) but Tom has since transformed into a beloved member of the family. Tom struggles both with grief over Sybil's death in childbirth and with being accepted by the Crawleys and their servants as a new member of the Crawley family. As a lover of film and film theory, John wrote humorous movie reviews on his blog, Back of the Head, which got him noticed by Screen Rant. Jimmy ignores this advice and continues to behave recklessly, winning a large bet at the village fair only to spend most of it on alcohol. Robert Crawley Lord Grantham, while well-intentioned, is an idiot. ), Lady Mary Crawley: as a daughter of an earl, she uses the Lady Given name style, but never Lady Crawley. She does not use Grantham. Servants address her as Lady Mary or my lady, and refer to her as Lady Mary or her ladyship. Her sisters, Lady Edith and Lady Sybil, follow the same usage. She decides to avoid seeing him when he comes to say final goodbyes, but her father-in-law, whom she goes to see, convinces her she must say goodbye to him. He reappears in 1923, and is admiring Isobel even more. With the Dowager Countess gone, Downton Abbey says goodbye to the woman who embodied its Edwardian past and the Crawley family enters the modern world with Lady Mary at the helm. Vyner tells Mary and Anna that the witness has confirmed that they had seen Anna on the pavement near Green in Piccadilly when the incident occurred. Lady Violet swore on her deathbed that "nothing happened" between her and her French suitor. Michael Gregson (played by Charles Edwards) (d. around 8 November 1923) is a London editor for the society magazine The Sketch. Isobel Grey (formerly Crawley, ne Turnbull), Lady Merton (played by Penelope Wilton) is Matthew's widowed mother. Anna worries that Mr Bates will have his revenge if her attacker's identity is ever revealed. Dickie asks him to leave, which does not sway his behavior. Moseley saved the production of The Gambler by proving he had an ear for dialogue and the talent to write new scenes when the movie switched from a silent film to a talkie. Irate, she goes to Sir Richard Carlisle and sells him the story of Lady Mary, unaware that Sir Richard is engaged to Lady Mary and has no intention of publishing the story. Georgian (Compare Mr. Collinss use of Cousin as a title in P&P, where the Bennet sisters do not reciprocate.) Lord Merton (Dickie) attends luncheon with Violet, Isobel and Edith at the Dower House where he is atttracted to Isobel and afterwards offers to take her home. "[17] Finneran believed that O'Brien "was great to play. His attitudes occasionally clash with that of the more progressive and pragmatic Cora. Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Strutt KCB, DSO (played by Julian Wadham) is a senior British Army general known as the "Hero of the Somme". In 1920, he expresses his wish to name Daisy his sole heir, and asks her to come live at the farm so he may teach her how to run it. During a dinner in his honour, Branson, the Irish nationalist and socialist chauffeur, attempts to avenge himself on the Army by pouring a soup tureen of slop over the general, but he is stopped in time by Carson the butler (who after reading Branson's apology note to Lady Sybil, found by Anna, thought Branson meant to assassinate the general). Bates remains ignorant of the true meaning of the words, but he soon has other concerns when Lord Grantham decides to appoint Thomas as under-butler to take advantage of his skills at cricket; Bates had only hoped to allow Thomas to leave with a good reference. Lady Mary prepares a room for Anna and her husband in the main house so they can spend their wedding night together. Before she can bring herself to tell him about Marigold, Mary peevishly reveals the truth. However, in episode 4 she begins to suffer severe cramps and fears she is suffering another miscarriage. Chamberlain later reveals to Tom that he had been blackmailed into attending by Violet, who knew of his role in one of the notorious pranks performed by his brother-in-law, Horace de Vere Cole (in their youth, de Vere Cole, Chamberlain and some others had disguised themselves as workmen and had dug a trench across Piccadilly Circus, causing a massive traffic jam "from the East End to Belgrave Square."). He arrives at Downton before leaving to settle his cousin's affairs, and Edith accepts his proposal. It is set almost exactly one hundred years later, a last moment of elegance before great changes, just as P&P described a world as yet unaltered by the industrial revolution. In the second Christmas special, she accompanies Lady Grantham to Scotland to visit Duneagle Castle. In the course of a sexual encounter with Mary, Pamuk dies in her bed of a heart attack. John Orquiola is Screen Rant's Star Trek Beat Editor, Senior Features staff writer, and interviewer. Matthew Reginald Crawley (played by Dan Stevens) (18851921) is a middle-class distant cousin of the Crawleys who becomes the heir to the estate in the first episode and soon after moves to Downton. He was planning to propose to Edith before Mary tricked him into thinking Edith would reject him and he leaves without an explanation. He appears to have been warned off Thomas by Mr Carson, Mrs Hughes, and Mrs Patmore. But noticeably absent from Downton Abbey: A New Era, and lamented by Mary, is her husband, Henry Talbot (Matthew Goode). Dickie is upset when he finds Larry wrote Isobel a letter telling her so, that she did not show him for a while, and further angered by Larry's treatment of her. However, this alliance does not last very long, as Edna is fired after she successfully seduces Tom Branson but is foiled in her effort to blackmail him into marrying her. Related: Why Lily James Left Downton Abbey (& Why She's Not In The Movies). For a brief time before entering into household service, Mr Carson was a music hall performer in the vaudeville duo the "Cheerful Charlies" alongside former friend Charlie Grigg. He is a recent war veteran and suffers from severe Combat Stress Reaction (CSR, or shell shock) that causes him to be very nervous and somewhat disconnected to his surroundings. Unluckily, while the tryst is occurring, Lady Edith accidentally starts a fire in a nearby bedroom, which pulls Thomas away from his post. But where does he rank? Isobel was one of the few who felt Sybil should return to Downton with her husband Tom, for Matthew and Mary's wedding, and stood up for their right to do so. She has developed a close relationship with Mr Carson; at the time the series begins, the two had overseen Downton's staff for almost 20 years. However, his physical dishevelment deceives Grantham into thinking that Thomas has more concern for the family than Grantham believed, and Grantham later tells Carson that he is willing to give Thomas a try as valet. Edith inherits his publishing company and reclaims their daughter, Marigold. John happily became the Star Trek guy at Screen Rant and he leads Feature coverage of the various Star Trek series. Only the housemaid Anna offers him any sympathy and friendship. During the 2014 Christmas special, Anna awaits trial in prison as Mary and Bates visit her. Robert said that he suspected that Isobel had done so, and Sybil was determined to ask her, before Violet admitted that she had sent it. Edith's grandmother (and Rosamund's mother) is highly suspicious of this plan and discovers later that Edith left when she was around 34 months pregnant to give birth there. He also nearly weds Edith to Anthony Strallan before he jilts her at the altar (Travis and the Dowager discussed Strallan's first wife beforehand). Mrs Hughes dismisses her after discovering the two of them in bed together, but Ethel shortly returns having nowhere else to go when she finds out she is pregnant with his child. He also later mentions Jimmy to Phyllis Baxter in a bout of sadness and annoyance that he's gone.
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