When was Carson on stage?,as it has been said that he had been at Downton since he was aboy?!
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Season 1 Episode 3 when Matthew and Edith were in the chapel.
MATTHEW: Is the screen a Cromwell casualty?
What is a Cromwell casualty?
Season 1, episode 2:
ROBERT: No. You don’t love it. You see a million bricks that may crumble, a thousand gutters and pipes that may block and leak, lead that will shrink, and stone that will crack in the frost.
What does lead that will shrink mean?
Just rewatched the Dame Melba for dinner and performance episode - when Cora berates Robert and Carson for putting the star away out of sight for tea and dinner.
But I think it's strange that Cora herself didn't plan the guest seating arrangements at a dinner in her own home? Surely that is one of her duties as Lady of the House - to give Carson plans for where her guests will sit? Or is a big house like DA, is this in the control of the butler?
I've noticed that when Lord Gillingham is mentioned, he is often referred to as "Tony Gillingham" even though his name is Anthony Foyle. No one ever calls Robert Crawley "Robert Grantham" even though his title is Lord Grantham. Would it have been appropriate to refer to a lord by his given first name and last name of the title and under what circumstances?
Over the course of the series, I've noticed that the servants seem to be on call all day. The body servants such as Bates and O'Brien dress their lord/ladyship in the morning and undress them at night. Anna takes care of the house in the morning and undresses Lady Mary at night. And poor Daisy is up before everyone else so she can wake the other servants and is still shown working late at night.
Is such a work schedule for servants realistic or is it a matter of TV series convenience (i.e., the impracticality of hiring different actors to dress/undress his lordship)? I know the servants sometimes take a day or half-day off, and I presume they get a vacation now and then, but, with having to be on call all day, when would Bates and Anna have time to get married and have a child or raise one?
I read with interest the analysis over Lady Sybil's date of birth on her page. It seems there is some confusion or apparent lack of consistency given that she was 24 when she died in 1920 yet the script for the first episode describes her as 17 in 1912. However, I just re-watched episode 1.7, in which Robert tells Cora she hasn't been pregnant in 18 years, alluding no doubt to her pregnancy with Sybil. Episode 1.7 is set in July and August 1914, which strongly suggests that Sybil was born in 1896, not 1895 as listed on her page.
Also, in the same episode, Sybil and her family return from her "coming out" event in London. I'm not sure what the event is called, but wouldn't it have occurred on or shortly after her 18th birthday?
What of the age 17 reference? Details in scripts sometimes change, so, unless her age was mentioned on screen, perhaps it is not canon.
So I just finished rewatching the 2019 film and I have a couple of questions about titles.
Now, within the Crawley Family, Edith outranks them all as the Marchioness of Hexham. Followed by the Earl and Countess of Grantham, than Lord and Lady Merton, followed by Lady Mary Talbot and then potentially the Dowager Countess?
But my question is, as the Hexham’s are of a higher rank, does that mean the the Earl of Grantham uses ‘My Lord’ when referring to Marquess of Hexham. If that is the case, is there evidence of that in the show?
I know when the the girls were visiting Princess Mary in the film, they were in rank order but when the King and Queen visited, there was no order.
Thank you in advance 😊
I didn't understand that part about Vera's blackmailing. Who was Lady Flintshire (no fandom page on her, "his lordship's cousin" doesn't tell me much). Why was Bates's name a big deal with her so that she employed his wife. Why did Lady Flintshire know about Mary's fling with the Turk (from the embassy people? did she have something to do with it?)? Why didn't Vera wish to get her half of the divorce settlement and start a new family? Plus, there wasn't, from my perspective, any way for her to know about Anna's involvment because Edith knew the story from Daisy, and Daisy, as far as I could tell, didn't see Anna. As per my recollection, she only saw Cora. I'm confused
I've just started watching the series but so far struggle to follow the plot (I've read its summary here on fandom, it didn't make things clear for me). These concepts of "entail" and everything are not familiar to me at all (I hadn't even realised it was a noun in English as well before I watched the first episode). So Lord Grantham's two heirs presumably drowned following Titanic's sinking. I get it. And then the house and Lord's wife's money, because of some arrangement called "entail", were going to be inherited along with the title by his distant relative. It's a big deal, isn't it? Good news he could "break" the entail and make his elder daughter Mary the heiress to the house (but not the title, right?). But the earl refuses to "break" the entail because he "cannot ruin the estate or hollow out the title for the sake of Mary" (and so that gay duke stops short of proposing to Mary after discovering she's not going to be the heir, ok, I get it). But what did Lord Grantham mean by that? What crucial drawbacks would breaking the entail have that made him make that decision?
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So there used to be a panel on the main page for the forum that showed recent responses to my posts - likes received, replies, etc. A month or two ago it no longer appeared. Did that disappear for everyone or did I just accidentally push some control that made it go away? I liked being able to see reactions to what I posted. Is there some way to get it back? Thanks very much.
I don't understand how these locations can be in Yorkshire if most English Nobility is in southern England. Furthermore, when referring to London, and travelling there, they say "Going up to London", or "It's lovely to be back down here again". Can someone please explain how this works, or if I misheard? Wouldn't it make more sense for Downton to be South of London? But if it truly is in Yorkshire, just confirm that for me, or let me know if my geography is flawed and Yorkshire is in fact South of London. Thanks for your help.
Who in the household knows about Thomas' sexuality? I would imagine that Mrs. Baxter knows, but is there anyone else?
DA’s sequel film may take place around 1930 the depression era... what is your prediction on how the crawleys will deal with the new era and the depression?
What do you think could be a potential plot for the downtown abbey sequel movie?
We may expect, the crawley family going to live to the depression era which is the 1930s most likely...