There’s a massive, subterranean bunker kitchen. And when I say Downton is an estate, I mean it’s like a castle without the armaments. Many years ago a family of women, dogs, scones, and one dad lived on a large estate called Downton Abbey, where people liked to engage in eating, walking, snooty harrumphing, and hardcore gallivanting. Cue faces that appear as ghosts in between tangible and transparent phases.) Downton Abbey Season 1 Cue impressive-looking book pages flapping. I’m Laura Linney, and this… is a Chas Gillespie summary of Downton Abbey. Bates (Brendan Coyle), Robert's former batman-turned-valet.As Season 3 of Downton Abbey gets underway, let’s take a look back at what happened during the first two seasons.

Carson (Jim Carter), first footman Thomas Barrow (Rob James-Collier) and Mr. A la the classic 'Upstairs, Downstairs,' the series also delves into the lives of the estate's staff, including by-the-book butler Mr. As the first season progresses, Mary and Matthew come to share something of a love-hate relationship Mary weathers a potentially scandalous incident and Sybil begins to show an interest in politics.

Thus, he instead undertakes a search for a new heir, and finds one in the form of young middle-class solicitor Matthew Crawley (Dan Stevens), who arrives at Downton with his own outspoken mother (Penelope Wliton). And although Cora and Robert's tart-tongued mother (Maggie Smith) think he should break the entailment so that the family's fortune can be left to the children, to do so would likely mean the end of his beloved estate British laws at the time excluded women from inheriting property. Mary, the eldest, had been slated to marry a distant cousin who was aboard the doomed ship with his father, the presumptive heir. The acclaimed costume drama opens in 1912 with the sinking of the Titanic, which punctures the succession plans of Robert Crawley (Hugh Bonneville), the Earl of Grantham-his title and estate are legally entailed to only pass to a male, and he and his wife Cora (Elizabeth McGovern) have only produced daughters Mary (Michelle Dockery), Edith (Laura Carmichael) and Sybil (Jessica Brown Findlay).

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