Sir Herbert leaves Downton the next morning with no knowledge of the incident. 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. 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. Later, however, he is turned down as Mrs Hughes does not wish to leave Downton, but the two part on good terms. . Known for its extravagant set, charming characters and stellar ensemble cast, the series became a cultural. She was forced to leave school at the age of 11. She is coerced by O'Brien into telling Edith, who writes to the Turkish Ambassador. Given that her plans are always easily undone, Edna is a poor plotter who thinks herself cleverer than she actually is. During the Great War she learns that her nephew Archibald "Archie" Philpotts deserted and was shot for cowardice at the front. When Rose responds that the prince was very popular, the king dryly remarks that "the prince is never short of popularity." By the end of the series, Molesley finds work as a schoolteacher. However, because of his misdiagnosis of Matthew, Robert hires a well-known doctor who strongly disagrees with Clarkson. formata da otto episodi e uno speciale di novanta minuti andato in onda a Natale 2013.. Later, he confronts Thomas about what happened, and though he is hesitant, eventually agrees to be friends. She has blond hair, fair skin, and midnight blue eyes. Tom Branson was supposed to appear in only three episodes of the first series,[8] and Branson was originally Yorkshire-born. Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham (played by Hugh Bonneville) (b. Rose becomes restless and persuades Anna into accompanying her to a dance hall in York, where Anna attracts the attention of some young men but barely escapes when a fight ensues. Mr Albert Mason (played by Paul Copley) is the father of William, the Downton footman who died of injuries received in the Great War. Unlike Carson, she privately views Lady Mary as a silly girl whose misfortune comes mostly from her own mistakes; her attitudes have likely softened over the years. Thomas is quickly drawn to Jimmy, whose flirty and vague behaviour leads him to believe that Jimmy might be interested in sharing a homosexual relationship. By. Rose's society debut is in 1923, when Cora presents her before the king, queen, and Prince of Wales. Lavinia Catherine Swire (played by Zoe Boyle) (18951919) is the sweetheart and fiance of Matthew Crawley. Anna later tells Mary of her troubles. However, the pains are nothing to worry about, as it's just her body adjusting to the pregnancy. During the second series, Matthew serves in the First World War and both become engaged to other people, but after a series of obstacles, Matthew proposes to her again, and the two marry. In the third episode of the fourth series, Anna is violently assaulted and raped by Lord Gillingham's valet while the rest of family members and staff are attending a concert above stairs in the house. She attended secondary school at the American British Academy in Muscat, Oman, and graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2004. Anna's attempts to locate the ticket prove fruitless, due to Lady Mary's prior actions. When Anthony Strallan reveals what Larry had done, Lord Merton asks his son if it was true. When she turned 16, she moved to the United Kingdom and graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2004. 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 is replaced in her position by Jane, a war widow. In series four, the staff at Downton Abbey receive a letter from Gwen where she tells them she is married. Edna Braithwaite was a general maid who arrived at Downton Abbey in September 1921 and left soon after, then briefly returned as lady's maid to Lady Grantham . She is a widow as her husband died during the First World War. In the second feature film, Andy and Daisy are married and both living together on the farm with Mr Mason, and after the departure of Thomas Barrow it is hinted that Andy will succeed Barrow as Downton's butler. The toughs who lost the bet follow drunk Jimmy underneath a quiet bridge and jump him. Lady Anstruther, returned from France, orchestrates a plan to turn up at Downton Abbey in pursuit of Jimmy. More is revealed about Anna's past. He arrives at Downton in the first episode to replace Lord Grantham's previous valet. She tells Anna that she remembers Vera had dried food under her fingernails, meaning that Vera made the pie herself knowing that her husband would be implicated for murder. Anna reveals to him that she believed she was pregnant, but that morning had realised that she had miscarried their child, and that it wasn't the first time it had happened, but the third. In series six she married Mr Carson, but continued to be addressed as Mrs Hughes regardless. This all occurs when Matthew and his mother were away in France, in the trenches and field hospitals respectively. During the New Year celebrations, the Bateses welcome the new year away from the others, together with their newborn son. 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". Matthew and Mary fall in love, but circumstances separate them, and Matthew becomes engaged to Lavinia Swire. In the 2019 film she and Andy have become engaged, but she shows little enthusiasm for marriage. At this time, he had only recently succeeded to the viscountcy. Contents 1 Biography 2 Personality 3 Appearances 4 Notes 5 References 6 External Links Biography 1921 1922 1921 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. Anna's mother managed to convince police that it was an accident and he had slipped, but Anna is now terrified that either the police have found a file on the incident or her stepfather had heard of her arrest and tipped them off and it would be used to disprove the Crawleys' character reference of her and portray her as violent. In the Christmas Special, she receives a letter from Alfred, implying that they keep in touch. When they win, Barrow follows Jimmy who, having won a large bet, has too much to drink. Before going to Munich to begin his path to obtain German citizenship, he and Edith spend their last night together, making love for the first and last time. After hearing this news, both Mr Carson and Mrs Hughes immediately agree that she has to go. 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. Thomas Ferguson Niall Branson (played by Allen Leech) was initially the family chauffeur, employed in series one. Mrs Hughes threatens to summon a doctor to examine her if she persists with her lie. The neighbour also stated that she had seen Vera walking down the street when the gas lights had come on (she said they made a sort of "halo" around Vera's head), which would have been when Bates was already on his way back home. After that, the two of them are often seen in one another's company. Gordon decides to leave, rather than commit to his claim, after learning the earl's agents will be investigating Peter Gordon's history after his emigration to Canada. At the end of the series five Christmas special Mrs Hughes has accepted Mr Carson's marriage proposal. LONDON . Thomas tries to remain calm, quietly asking if Jimmy might try writing. Soap Opera Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. Even so, the family still call him by his last name. Matters become worse when Anna assists Lady Mary in procuring contraception for a sexual relationship with Lord Gillingham, and Bates finds the evidence and mistakenly believes his wife is using it so she does not become pregnant with a murderer's child. He refuses to assume his title publicly until his cousin's memorial service, though Carson instructs the Downton staff to address him as "Your Lordship" nonetheless. Matters are not made better when the Crawleys' lawyer, Murray, confirms that things do not look good for Anna and Bates is forced into action when a trial date for Anna is set. However, having bought the train ticket to London in York, he decided not to go through with the plan at the last minute, as he considered his actions would do far more harm than good, since he would certainly have been executed had he been convicted. He has a stern, but fatherly, disposition over the servants. However, when he sees the departing Bates leaving, Lord Grantham is overcome with feelings of guilt. 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. He informs Lady Grantham that he suspects the new nanny may be mistreating the children in some way. They slept together and Edna lied to Tom that she was pregnant as a ploy for him to marry her. Things move at such a pace in Downton Abbey, storylines can sometimes be over before you've even noticed that they've properly begun. Lady Mary prepares a room for Anna and her husband in the main house so they can spend their wedding night together. Jimmy is only rescued by Thomas, who had been following him to keep an eye out. George V (Guy Williams) is the king to whom Rose MacClare is presented at court in 1923. Immerse yourself in the much loved British historical drama, relive some of. 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. . Edna is basically the only person in this household that remembers the fact. His protectiveness leads Baxter to discover Anna's pregnancy. They agree to be friends forever. When Edna insists no one can know if she is pregnant or not, Mrs Hughes asks Tom if he really thinks Edna would have let herself get pregnant before she was sure she could have him. In 1923 Harold Levinson apparently takes a liking to Daisy's cooking, and his valet Ethan Slade offers Daisy a position so she can come to America and work for him. Edna is a former housemaid who is conniving and scheming. He drugs Tom's drink so that he appears drunk. In March 1913, he is diagnosed as suffering from dropsy of the heart and is certain to die. Cora blames Robert for Sybil's death because he did not listen to Clarkson. 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. 1873) was the butler of Crawley House, in the village of Downton, and valet for Matthew Crawley. 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". 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. A fanpage for the lovely Myanna Buring and her role as Edna Braithwaite on Downton Abbey. As the heir to the Downton Abbey estate, Robert Crawley married Cora Levinson - a young, forward-thinking American, partly at the will of his father who wanted to . Anna is promoted from head housemaid to Lady's Maid to Mary during Bates's incarceration. [18] Jen Chaney of Vulture ranked O'Brien as the series' second most "despicable" character. She receives some money from a deceased family member, purchases a cottage in the nearby community of Haughton-le-Skerne and opens a Bed and Breakfast, hiring her niece, Lucy to help her. Ethel, however, would not be allowed contact, learning that Charlie will be told that his father died during the war and his mother died of Spanish flu. Thomas is a closeted gay man. However, problems between the two are not over as Bates realises something has upset Anna. Bates tries to ignore him at first. Despite misgivings, Mrs Crawley agrees with the plan, although Ethel seems unwilling to accept any position aside from one close to Charlie's new home. Beginning as a junior footman, he rose to become butler by 1890. She runs off and leaves Downton immediately. Edith Pelham, Marchioness of Hexham (ne Lady Edith Crawley; b. The two attempt to move past the attack, but both find it very difficult. Lord Grantham insists on using his influence to get Freddie into Ripon Grammar School and paying the school fees in future. 1862) is the housekeeper at Downton Abbey. 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. He is the husband of Cora, son of Violet, and father of Mary, Edith and Sybil. Richard Carlisle (played by Iain Glen) is the fianc of Lady Mary Crawley in series two. She struck him; however, she did not kill him, merely wounded him. He has been widowed since the death of his wife Maud. Anna gives birth to a healthy baby boy on New Year's Eve, much to her and her husband's delight. 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. [5] A Huffington Post poll revealed that 85% of the respondents expressed dislike of Matthew's death. In "The Finale", the final episode of the series and of the show, Anna is shown to be pregnant and still working as a ladies maid, much to the dislike and discomfort of Carson, who feels a woman in "her condition" should not be working. Specifically, the new housemaid, Edna. Downton Abbey is a British period drama set in the fictional Downton Abbey, Yorkshire, country house of the Earl and Countess of Grantham, and follows the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants. 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. While in England he makes the acquaintance of the Hon. She uses her position to curry favour with Lady Grantham to consolidate her influence, although her actions usually benefit them both. 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. Jack breaks off the relationship to protect Rose. The rest of Anna's pregnancy goes seemingly without a hitch. 1886) is lady's maid to Lady Mary at Downton Abbey; previously she was first parlour maid and head housemaid. During the first series he had strong feelings for Daisy. Downton Abbey stands as a show with great potential to become a classic for generations to come. When Mrs Patmore returns, they run the Garden Party for the hospital fund together. 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. It is Bates who intervenes to save Thomas's prospects after he attempts to seduce Jimmy, as he is unwilling to see another man lose his livelihood due to the schemes of others. However, having bought the train ticket to London in York, he decided not to go through with the plan at the last minute, as he considered his actions would do far more harm than good, since he would certainly have been hanged for the crime if convicted; his love for his wife proved greater than his desire to defend her honour. One of her most constant traits is her unfailing devotion to Downton as her home and, eventually, the estate which she will preside over.