Though both Prince Kuragin and Violet were married, they fell in love and attempted to run away together, but did not succeed. Matthew dies suddenly in a car crash only days later, and he never informed his wife Mary or her parents of his discussion with Gregson while fishing. Mr Bates goes to London to confront her and returns to Downton with a large scratch on his face, telling Anna that their meeting went terribly. In episode 6 he insists on paying for Anna to have an appointment with Dr Ryder when she begins to experience lingering pains again, and asks that she stop keeping him in the dark. During the Great War, she opened a soup kitchen at Crawley House, in secret, and was helped by Mrs Patmore and Daisy to run it from the money given by the government for the hospital. She is also the associate director of the MahWaff Theatre Company. During the Christmas episode, Bates visits Anna in prison where she reveals that a secret from her past could compromise any character witness statement the Crawleys make in her favour. Prince Albert, Duke of York (Jonathan Townsend), the future King George VI, is present at Rose's debutante ball. Lord Grantham sends Thomas after Lady Edith, and Thomas can only watch in horror, unable to protect Jimmy this one last time. To prevent Carson embarrassing himself or the family, Mrs Hughes and Lady Mary conspire to have him join Lord Grantham's trip to the French villa instead. However, when he sees the departing Bates leaving, Lord Grantham is overcome with feelings of guilt. When the Crawleys manage to reduce Bates's sentence to life imprisonment, she decides to stay at Downton, although she vows that she will not rest until Bates is free. In 1913, Mason's wife dies of a heart attack leaving him on his own on their farm. He is appointed Governor of Bombay that year, and he and his wife travel to India. Lord Grantham, after being pressured by Cora and Carson to see how Bates is not fulfilling his job properly, regretfully tells Bates that it is not working out. At first, Edith was told he disappeared after going out once he checked into his Munich hotel. She is employed in Crawley house by Isobel and Mrs Patmore teaches her to cook, despite Mrs Bird leaving her post. Bates does not say much about his family or childhood, though he does mention that his late mother was Irish and he has a Scottish grandmother. Whilst Anna is in Lady Mary's bedroom after the wedding of Lady Edith and Bertie Pelham, her waters unexpectedly break. When Lady Rose returns to Downton, having had a child of her own, and asks when the baby is due, Anna reveals that she is about ten days away from her due date. 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. 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. Despite his questions, he does so. With its views of life from the upstairs and downstairs, it shows the perspectives of the happenings of early 20th century England's commonwealth. Bertie later encounters Edith in London and helps her with her all-night push to get her magazine to the printer. Henry Lang (played by Cal MacAninch) was Lord Grantham's valet in the absence of Mr Bates. 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. She attended secondary school at the American British Academy in Muscat, Oman, with her childhood friend Stegath Dorr, who is a character actor and a prolific horror filmmaker. In the first feature film, Bertie is asked by King George V to accompany him on a three-month tour of Africa. Shortly after the war, Cora has Spanish influenza and nearly dies before making a full recovery. Bates is overjoyed by the news. [20] Finneran herself confirmed this.[21]. 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. A fanpage for the lovely Myanna Buring and her role as Edna Braithwaite on Downton Abbey. Although the neighbour at first recants her story, she eventually gives a statement that clears Bates, who is freed from prison, returns to Downton, and moves into a nearby cottage with Anna. He arrives at Downton in the first episode to replace Lord Grantham's previous valet. However, the investigation into Green's death begins to wind down, as the police have failed to find anything more than circumstantial evidence to link Bates to the crime. Daisy admits she loved Alfred, but that is gone and they need to go their separate ways. During and after the war, Violet remains a strong influence at Downton Abbey but finds her influence under threat as social norms change, particularly from Isobel Crawley, with whom she has a tendency to quarrel, and her daughter-in-law Cora, both of whom are more forward-thinking and strong-minded women. She is baptised as a Catholic in accordance with her father's wishes, despite her grandfather Robert's strong preference that she be christened into the Anglican faith. She becomes distant from everyone, and is unable to even bear Mr Bates's touch, as she confesses to Mrs Hughes that she feels she no longer deserves him, and feels unclean. Mrs Hughes also learns the truth but says no more when she learns that Cora knows. Martha Levinson (played by Shirley MacLaine) is Cora's brash, outspoken, and wealthy American mother. However, Edith also experiences success when she pursues a career in journalism and takes charge of Gregson's magazine publishing company. Rosamund is one of the more headstrong and outspoken members of the family. At the end of series three, Jimmy is promoted to first footman, but he holds a grudge against Thomas into the Christmas Special. He also has a special place in his heart for Lady Mary, given she was the first child born at Downton during his tenure as butler. Tom develops feelings for Lady Sybil, with whom he shares political interests and a determined personality. Unluckily, while the tryst is occurring, Lady Edith accidentally starts a fire in a nearby bedroom, which pulls Thomas away from his post. Molesley gains access to the Bateses cottage and finds a picture of Bates; he and Baxter use it as they travel around York's pubs to find out which pub Bates had been to the day Green died. Daisy Mason, who is interested in Alfred, repeatedly tries to sabotage Ivy, Jimmy and Alfred in hopes that Alfred will realise that Ivy is no good for him. The two attempt to move past the attack, but both find it very difficult. In between serving in the Anglo-Boer War and joining the staff at Downton Abbey, John Bates went to prison for a theft that Vera had committed. He also comes to Downton Abbey for dinner later that year. Mrs Patmore tries to hide her deteriorating eyesight but Lord Grantham decides to send her to Moorfields in London for treatment when she accidentally puts salt on the pudding instead of sugar. When he was at school he fooled around and never learned how to read or how to write anything but his own name. Mrs Hughes says that is true, but that if Edna wants a reference or another job during her natural lifetime she will remain quiet. After Larry unremorsefully calls Tom "only a grubby little chauffeur chappie", Lord Merton angrily tells him to be silent, and apologises very sincerely to Tom for what Larry did, adding his hope that Tom would recover before the wedding. She works unstintingly and unflaggingly to remedy what happened. She reveals that her father died when she was about six years old and that her mother remarried, of which Bates already knew, however Anna had not told him the whole story. Baxter and Moseley become very close in the course of the final series and the two films; in A New Era, Baxter accepts Moseley's marriage proposal. She declines. She dies at the end of the second film. [14], Thomas was originally meant to be written out of the show at the end of the first series once he had had his "comeuppance". Sir Herbert leaves Downton the next morning with no knowledge of the incident. They wear brown shirts and go around preaching the most horrible things," as Edith later tells her aunt. She reveals Edna knew how to prevent a pregnancy with the help of a book she found among Edna's things. Sept. 18, 2019 5 AM PT. However, in episode 4 she begins to suffer severe cramps and fears she is suffering another miscarriage. For his part, Mason knows how he is affecting them and tries to give them as much space as possible. In 1913, three years after Ivy dies and his son joins the army, Joe comes to Downton and asks Elsie to marry him, but once again she refuses him, even though she has previously expressed doubts about choosing a life of service over having a husband and family. However, she eventually decides she does not want to marry any of them, providing a shock, especially for Tony. He tries to convince her that despite wanting children, she alone is enough for him, which she has trouble accepting. 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". Downton Abbey (TV Series 2010-2015) - IMDb While her parents are posted to India, Rose stays at Downton, where she is living by 1922. She was forced to leave school at the age of 11. Mr Bates, to Thomas's surprise, intervenes, by informing Lord Grantham of the details and then offering to force O'Brien to call Jimmy off. Mabel Lane-Fox, whom Mary refers to as "the greatest heiress of the season." In the first film, he is six years old and plays with his younger half-sister Caroline, and first cousins Sybbie and Marigold. However, the investigation into Green's death begins to wind down, as the police have failed to find anything more than circumstantial evidence to link Bates to the crime. She later tells Mrs Patmore that she is ready to start planning her wedding to Andy. She is originally from Argyll, Scotland, where her father was a farmer. The Honourable Ephraim Atticus Aldridge (played by Matt Barber), more commonly known by his middle name, Atticus, is the son and heir of Lord and Lady Sinderby. At the beginning of series six Anna is in a dark place as the case of Green's death lingers over her and Bates as she's still out on bail. After the fire, Lord Grantham tells Carson that Jimmy has to go, but with a good reference. She even skips work to go see him in the Grantham Arms, after hearing that he would be eating lunch there. Robert then asks him to dinner after Tom Branson expresses his wish to baptise his daughter Catholic like himself, a decision Robert opposes. Furious that Mrs Hughes went through her things, Edna tries to stand her ground, saying Mrs Hughes could not prove anything. 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. The police are convinced that Bates murdered her and he is convicted and sentenced to death, before the sentence is commuted to life in prison. Later, having returned to Grantham House, Mrs Hughes interrupts Anna and Lady Mary and informs them that Vyner has returned and has come to arrest her. Downton Abbey season four, episode three: let's talk about sex Downton Abbey's 17 Most Shocking Moments - Town & Country He later tells her how uncomfortable and idiotic he feels in the company of the Crawley's old friends. Anna is freed but on bail whilst her husband is classified as being on the run. Gwen Harding (born Dawson) (played by Rose Leslie) was a housemaid at Downton. In series six she married Mr Carson, but continued to be addressed as Mrs Hughes regardless. In the series three Christmas Special, he tries to call Jimmy off his aggressive streak towards Thomas, and then spends the rest of the episode talking about his interest in cooking. A chronicle of the lives of the British aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the early twentieth century. Prince Igor Kuragin (Russian: ; played by Rade Sherbedgia) is a former Russian nobleman forced into exile as a result of the 1917 Revolution. At the end of the series five Christmas special, Carson has purchased a house and added both his and Mrs Hughes's names to the registry, with the intention of asking Mrs Hughes to marry him; she accepts. He has a close relationship with Mrs Hughes, built up over a quarter-century of overseeing the household staff. 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. She runs off and leaves Downton immediately. [19], Executive producer Gareth Neame stated that Finneran had chosen to leave the series. Sarah O'Brien, who is angry with Thomas for the way he has treated her nephew, Alfred, quickly latches on to this dynamic and uses it to her own ends. Jimmy is only rescued by Thomas, who had been following him to keep an eye out. Tom Falls Into Edna's Clutches | Downton Abbey - YouTube Anna worries that Mr Bates will have his revenge if her attacker's identity is ever revealed. He took his new surname from a bottle of gin. Edna was somewhat of a sympathetic character, coming from nothing and doing whatever she could to scrounge up a better life for herself. In series Four, Alfred pursues that interest and leaves Downton to become a chef at the Ritz. She has proven to be ambitious in moving above her social station. He often resists "modern" suggestions for better management of the estate, especially after his daughter Mary joins his sons-in-law Matthew and Tom in running it. Ambitious, she decides that she no longer wants to work in service and saves up her money to buy a typewriter to take a correspondence course in typing and shorthand. Barrow succeeds him as butler, with Carson serving in a supervisory role. However, after James-Collier had filmed the first two episodes of the show the producers contacted his agent and asked if he would like to be optioned for the second and third series.[15]. Anna May Bates (ne Smith) (played by Joanne Froggatt) (b. Finally, Edna says she cannot be stopped from speaking to Cora. However, because of his misdiagnosis of Matthew, Robert hires a well-known doctor who strongly disagrees with Clarkson. It is he who eventually talks Lady Mary out of her listless grief over Matthew's death. Having known each other since childhood, they married young and had a very unhappy marriage. With Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle. Over time, however, the pair grow closer, and a romance develops. After a hot post-dinner make-out with Lady Mary, the dangerously handsome Turkish diplomat sneaks his way into her bedroom and forces himself on her, only to collapse in an . Most of the staff give him the cold shoulder, while Thomas and O'Brien try to get rid of him to further their own ends. As a . Andrew is hired by Carson on a temporary basis to work the week of Lady Rose MacClare's wedding at Grantham House in London. Though Isobel is concerned about marrying Lord Merton when his sons do not approve of her, Violet insists she should not let them ruin her future. Sarah O'Brien (played by Siobhan Finneran), who is mainly known as Miss O'Brien by the other servants or just O'Brien by the family, was Lady Grantham's lady's maid, a post she has held since 1910. However, it would endanger Anna once again, who is released on bail. He tells Anna he knows what has happened, and reassures her that he still loves her. In the second Christmas special, she accompanies Lady Grantham to Scotland to visit Duneagle Castle. By the end of the final series, Robert's worsening health forces him to step down from running the estate, leaving the task to Tom and Mary. For example, he recalls that he and the sisters disliked their governess, which Edith identifies specifically as Frulein Kelder. Andy helps Mr Mason move into Yew Tree Farm with Mrs Patmore and Daisy. Edith does not hear from him, which worries her, especially when she receives a shocking letter from a London doctor informing her that she is pregnant. When Rose responds that the prince was very popular, the king dryly remarks that "the prince is never short of popularity." In the first series, she is shown to have feelings for first footman Thomas, something that Mrs Patmore tries to discourage as she can see that Thomas is "not a ladies' man". 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. She gave birth to their son on New Year's Eve, 1925. It is to Carlisle, as a man of influence, that Lady Mary turns to when she concludes that marrying Matthew is not an option. Edith inherits his publishing company and reclaims their daughter, Marigold. 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