After failing to persuade Dr Clarkson to "bend the rules", a furious Violet manages to pull some strings to have William sent back to Downton, where he was cared for by Lady Edith. He was hospitalised in Leeds as Downton, then used as a convalescent home, was only for officers, but William's father could not afford to leave his farm or repeatedly travel to and fro to visit. For his part, Mason knows how he is affecting them and tries to give them as much space as possible. This greatly upsets the farmer's wife, who was led to believe that the child was the orphaned daughter of her husband's friend whom she never met. Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Strutt KCB, DSO (played by Julian Wadham) is a senior British Army general known as the "Hero of the Somme". After Ethel attracts considerable gossip, the Dowager Countess intervenes, having Lady Edith place an advertisement for Ethel, so she may find a position elsewhere and have a fresh start. Further, Edith discovers she is pregnant with Gregson's illegitimate 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. For example, he recalls that he and the sisters disliked their governess, which Edith identifies specifically as Frulein Kelder. They insist that they can give Charlie a far better future than Ethel ever could. While in England he makes the acquaintance of the Hon. They share a moment in which Jimmy exhibits some doubt about the plan, wondering if perhaps Lady Anstruther just wants to talk. Tony later calls off his engagement to Mabel, because of his interest in Mary. She also wants her husband back since she has tried living on her own and does not like it. It is not known whether he went ahead and published the story. In the first film, set in 1927, Marigold is four or five years old and has returned to Downton with her mother and stepfather for the royal visit. During her time as a housemaid, she would gain a huge crush on chauffeur Tom Branson, but he would not look at her, as he was in love with Sybil Crawley. Thomas provides Bates with words that lead her to believe Bates knows of her hand in Lady Grantham's miscarriage, and she quickly backs down. British-based Swedish actress MyAnna Buring, 28, pictured, plays the new maid in the Christmas special of Downton Abbey. Even so, the family still call him by his last name. However, this . Bates goes to York for the day but does not reveal the reason for going and Mr Green dies in Piccadilly after "falling into the road". Bates is freed, and the reunited married couple move into a cottage on the grounds shortly thereafter. Thomas tells Jimmy to run, while Thomas is left to take the beating in Jimmy's place. When Matthew is injured, he thinks his spine may have been broken, but is proven wrong when Matthew walks again (he was just suffering from spinal shock, which didn't permanently disable his legs). Mr Carson overhears the news of Lord Grantham's della Francesca painting selling "amazingly well" and takes advantage of this news to hire a new footman at Downton Abbey. Barrow then attempts to gain an ally in the form of Lady Grantham's new maid Edna, a maid fired from Downton following her attempt to seduce Tom Branson, by claiming that Edna's accidental damage to one of Lady Grantham's favourite garments was in fact due to Anna Bates. Sir Richard Carlisle tricks Mrs Bates into selling the story, to save Mary and later threatens to expose her when she wants to break off their engagement. Soon, however, Mrs Hughes tells Mr Bates what happened to Anna, although she refuses to disclose who was the culprit. The Archbishop of York and future Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Cosmo Gordon Lang (Michael Culkin) marries Lady Mary Crawley and Matthew Crawley in the spring of 1920. It is revealed that she was poisoned by eating rat poison cooked in a pie, and Bates is put under suspicion. He is extremely tall, which Carson comments is almost too much, even though height is a desirable aspect for a footman. . Although Bates had hoped Thomas would leave with a good reference, Lord Grantham decides to let him stay on so Thomas can lend his skills to the upcoming cricket match between the village and the house. Lenker states that the character is initially "a solid villain" but develops and "he gradually became one of the most beloved members of the Crawley family staff". Anna worries that Mr Bates will have his revenge if her attacker's identity is ever revealed. Her industrious nature, first discovered during the First World War when she opens and maintains Downton as a convalescent home for soldiers, and later put to use on the Downton hospital board, often causes conflict with Robert, especially after she becomes president of the hospital board in the final series. As a powerful and extremely wealthy noble with palaces and thousands of acres of land, he and Violet met in Saint Petersburg in 1874 while she and her husband, the then Earl of Grantham, were in the retinue of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. When she asks how it is possible that he has returned, he silences her, insisting that they speak later about it but for the moment, enjoy their Christmas. Gordon says he was rescued from the freezing ocean by Fifth Officer Harold Lowe but developed amnesia and was sent to Montreal after being mistaken for a Canadian. 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. Travis insults the Catholic faith and believes the Anglican Church is superior. After spending the weekend together, he talks of their engagement, but she realises he is not the man for her. During the War, he served with Charles Blake in the Royal Navy aboard Jellicoe's flagship HMS Iron Duke at the Battle of Jutland. Matthew and Mary fall in love, but circumstances separate them, and Matthew becomes engaged to Lavinia Swire. Daisy Parker (formerly Mason (ne Robinson)) (played by Sophie McShera) is the kitchen maid, later assistant cook, at Downton. She asks for large amounts of money, refusing a divorce so he cannot marry fellow servant Anna, and blackmails him, threatening to expose Lady Mary's secret. 1892) (played by Laura Carmichael) is the middle daughter of Lord and Lady Grantham. The younger Crawleys often use Rosamund's home at 35 Belgrave Square as a place to stay when visiting London, on which occasions Rosamund takes the opportunity to catch up on family gossip. He is caught by Alfred, who walks in on this scene and eventually tells Mr Carson at O'Brien's insistence. Horrified by Major Bryant's refusal to acknowledge Charlie and his father's bullying, Ethel refuses the offer. In the second film, Mary has a flirtatious relationship with a film director named Jack Barber, but she stays faithful to Henry. In episode 2, without his knowledge, Anna visits Dr Ryder in London, who offers to perform a cervical stitch to rectify the problem with her carrying a child to term, but she must become pregnant again first. When Barrow attempts suicide, it is Baxter who raises the alarm (based on Barrow's earlier behaviour that morning) and finds him in the bathroom in time to save his life. But when she reveals she knows he is married, he explains that his wife, Lizzy, whom he loved very much, has been in an insane asylum for some years with no hope of recovery. After the death of the heir to the estate and her unofficial fianc, Mary's relationship with the new heir, distant cousin Matthew Crawley, begins coldly due to their different upbringing. She volunteers with a charity in Leeds to help Russian refugees who have resettled in England. Edna approaches him again when she sees him sitting by himself and gives him a large whiskey, saying she thinks he needs it. He previously served in the Army alongside the earl as his batman during the Boer Wars and suffered an injury to his right leg. Thomas Ferguson Niall Branson (played by Allen Leech) was initially the family chauffeur, employed in series one. Following his father's premature death, George becomes heir to his grandfather Robert and the Downton estate. In 1914, Matthew asks Mary to marry him, but she is hesitant because of circumstances regarding the inheritance of the estate. O'Brien is one of several servants asked to testify at Bates's trial and is genuinely relieved when they learn that Bates had been reprieved. Edith stays on (she had intended to resign because she was repulsed that a married man was flirting with her) after Michael expresses his hope that she will, citing how much it cheers him to meet her when they do and to read her column. He starts his employment there in 1910 as a junior footman. He has a stern, but fatherly, disposition over the servants. After William's death in 1918, Mr Mason sometimes calls at Downton to speak to Daisy, believing that she loved William as much as he did. At five or six years old, in 1928, she has donned braids and runs to ask her mother play with her one warm day. After he confesses to Daisy, she reveals she wasn't flirting and, impressed by his actions, is ready to start planning her marriage to Andy. She and her late husband, Marmaduke Painswick, had no children. Unlike the other servants, she shows no respect when talking with Tom, and refuses to stand up when he enters the servants hall. Gregson arrives in Munich, then vanishes with no word. Edna Braithwaite 5 episodes, 2012-2013 Catherine Steadman . Anna and Bates also continue the plan to sell Bates's mother's London house in order to purchase a house up north and hire it out. Eventually Mary breaks off the engagement to him after the pair argue with increased frequency, and after Lord Grantham discovers the truth from Lady Grantham and advises Mary not to be unhappy with someone she does not love. One of her most constant traits is her unfailing devotion to Downton as her home and, eventually, the estate which she will preside over. This engagement is broken off and during the war he is injured. However, the pains are nothing to worry about, as it's just her body adjusting to the pregnancy. Anna only tells Mrs Hughes of the crime, fearing her husband would commit murder if he discovered the truth. Later on, his father and Daisy become quite close. After a fight with Thomas Barrow, in which she called him out as she saw him as being sly and oily and that nobody in their right minds trusted him; and he retaliated against her, by calling her a scheming witch whose schemes came to nothing, she stormed out of the abbey once and for all, after giving her notice, giving the reason of being family troubles. They agree to be friends forever. Tom is enraged when she tells him if he was good enough for his late wife then she is good enough for him. Branson and Edna: Branson has adapted to his new life as Downton's agent quite well, but there are those who make him feel ashamed. This helps Daisy drop any objections she has about their pairing. While he is recuperating, Jimmy comes to speak with him. As a . An overconfident Thomas makes a snide remark that Mr Bates can do nothing to stop him only for Bates to violently grab him and shove him against the wall, proving that despite his disability he is not to be underestimated. The tale becomes known to other members of the family after it becomes a rumour in London. After she got fired, Edna manages to come back to Downton to work as Cora's lady's maid. 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. The final series also deals with Carson downsizing staff to adjust for the current times. More is revealed about Anna's past. Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham (played by Hugh Bonneville) (b. He took his new surname from a bottle of gin. He, Lucy and members of the Crawley family travel to the South of France, after discovering that the Dowager Countess was gifted a villa in the South of France and arranges for her great-granddaughter, Tom's daughter Sybbie Branson, to inherit it. In the series four Christmas Special, Jimmy travels with the Crawley family to London for the season. But because Ivy has a crush on Jimmy, Alfred decides to confront Jimmy about the fact that he's not interested in her. The Dowager Countess's Lady's Maid Gladys Denker takes advantage of him to go out drinking, but Thomas Barrow comes to his rescue, teaching Denker a lesson in the process. Upon Robert's death, he will become the 8th Earl of Grantham, though Mary will speak for his interests until he comes of age. Mabel Lane-Fox, whom Mary refers to as "the greatest heiress of the season." Edna's the fucking worst! Later he arranges Lavinia Swire's funeral and then the wedding for Matthew and Mary, even though the Archbishop of York performs it. Mary receives a surprising question, Anna freezes Bates out, Edna makes a play for Tom, and Rose meets a new friend. He would take on Downton footman Andy Parker as a farmhand, and at series end, would be pleased when Daisy would finally move to Yew Tree Farm with him at long last. He was interested in studying medicine once in his life, but his father did not think it suitable for someone of his position. Overjoyed that her husband is once again innocent, Anna then attempts to locate the untorn ticket to London, as Bates kept it in his coat as a talisman for a time, and its existence would prove Bates could not have been in London when Green was killed. Lady Mary prepares a room for Anna and her husband in the main house so they can spend their wedding night together. Whilst Anna is pregnant, she still fears that as there are months to wait, the baby is still in danger of being lost, despite her husband's insistence that nothing will go wrong. Through a series of notes and letters, all of which Jimmy desperately begs Thomas for advice on, the audience learns that Jimmy's former position with Lady Anstruther included a sexual aspect. However, Violet and the family remain suspicious of him as he is "new money" and is described by Lord Grantham as "a hawker of newspaper scandal". Lord Sinderby was said to have been opposed to his marriage to Rose while his wife accepts her because "her son's happiness is more important". But Mrs Hughes and Mrs Patmore intervene and Carson eventually gives in and takes Molesley on as a second footman. When Vera learns that her husband has a larger than expected inheritance after his mother's death, she arrives at Downton Abbey. Elsie worked as a maid at Duneagle Castle for an unknown period of time. Mary offers to take Anna to London, paying for her to visit Dr Ryder, the doctor that had treated Mary for problems when she had trouble conceiving a child with Matthew. Bates sneaks up behind Anna, surprising her, then pulls her aside. After the war, with male staff able to be hired, the full household staff are brought up to the pre-war levels and Mr Carson is able to return to solely undertaking the duties of butler. At Downton Abbey, he meets Violet again, who is shocked by his reappearance and what has happened to him. She appeared in the film, played by Geraldine James.[24]. He comes to dislike the new nanny for the two young children of Downton, and refuses to pass on her instructions to other members of staff. It is suggested by the earl's solicitor, George Murray, that Major Gordon might actually be Peter Gordon, who worked with the real Patrick Crawley at the Foreign Office, which would explain how he knew some of the private details of the Earl's family. Bates tries to ignore him at first. Matthew eventually relents and uses the money to save Downton Abbey from bankruptcy following Lord Grantham's having lost his wife's fortune through bad investments. After Lady Grantham is struck by a severe case of Spanish flu, O'Brien maintains a bedside vigil, attempting to atone for the miscarriage. She only gets truly emotional when her plans are foiled. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! She also speaks frankly about her employers when she and Mr Carson are alone; she enjoys seeing the Dowager Countess (whom she calls "the old bat") getting her comeuppance with the arrival of Isobel Crawley. Mary tells the Bateses that their newborn son is welcome to stay at Downton's nursery during the day, as Anna wants to continue working at Downton, and that soon their son will be joined by a child of her own, as Mary is now pregnant. Violet attempts to find the whereabouts of Princess Irina through Lord Flintshire, who is her nephew-in-law, and eventually receives a letter from Lord Flintshire saying the Princess may have fled to Wan Chai, Hong Kong, where she might be working as a nurse. Mrs Hughes has described her sister as being born "not quite right in the head" and has been privately caring for her since their mother died. Though Jack loves her, he fears the repercussions of an inter-racial romance. Lavinia dies at Downton of Spanish influenza after Matthew regains use of his legs and shortly before their wedding. Despite his questions, he does so. He returns to Downton, having apparently settled affairs with his wife, but Miss O'Brien contacts Vera and once again, she returns to cause more trouble. The Crawleys and Rose succeed in retrieving the letter, after which the grateful prince unexpectedly arrives and opens Rose's debutante ball at their house, dancing with Rose. Series six deals with Carson's and Hughes' marriage and life as a married couple. He returns to Crawley House immediately upon Mr Carson's recovery, though he goes to the great house with Matthew Crawley to be his full-time valet after his marriage to Lady Mary. She plays the victim, and accuses him of using her, then casting her aside, and not being a man of honor. Edna doesn't think she has done anything wrong, insisting she is just as good as he and that there was nothing improper. The two part on good terms, with Madeleine promising to write to Harold frequently. Anthony Foyle, Viscount Gillingham, also known as Tony Gillingham (played by Tom Cullen), is a love interest of Lady Mary in series four and five. Brown Findlay portrays Lady Sybil Crawley. Prince Igor Kuragin (Russian: ; played by Rade Sherbedgia) is a former Russian nobleman forced into exile as a result of the 1917 Revolution. Carson's main complaint is that a valet should perform extra duties outside of just seeing to Lord Grantham, including carrying trays and acting as a third footman if necessary. Before she can bring herself to tell him about Marigold, Mary peevishly reveals the truth. She gets a new hairstyle and announces that she will move into Yew Tree Farm with Mr Mason, while still working at Downton. She calls it off with him but he becomes angry and refuses to break it off with her. Bates goes with her, and it is thought that his romance with Anna is over. Though both Prince Kuragin and Violet were married, they fell in love and attempted to run away together, but did not succeed. In series Four, Alfred pursues that interest and leaves Downton to become a chef at the Ritz. Anna is freed but on bail whilst her husband is classified as being on the run. 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. Later, Thomas Barrow finds her humming in the boot room, and she tells him he should be happy he is in good favor with her, while smirking unpleasantly. However, because of his misdiagnosis of Matthew, Robert hires a well-known doctor who strongly disagrees with Clarkson. Edna is a former housemaid who is conniving and scheming.
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