Upon his return to Britain, he gets permission to work at Downton as sergeant in charge when the residence is made into a centre of recovery for injured officers. During the Great War she learns that her nephew Archibald "Archie" Philpotts deserted and was shot for cowardice at the front. You dont want to be a fuddy-duddy.. 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. Edith struggles with revealing the truth about Marigold to Bertie before accepting him. Mr. Bates' mean old first wife killed herself and made it look like he'd murdered her. Occasionally her caring attitude may become even counterproductive, as when she advises that Daisy should not sacrifice that much of her spare time to try to self-educate herself, as she sees that hopes for that kind of lifestyle which would justify such efforts are set too high considering Daisy's chances to move in the social hierarchy of that era. Logan reasoned that her younger colleagues might be eager to move, but she doesn't feel the need as "there are so many roles now on offer for my age group in the UK," she said. He and Anna fall in love, but he explains he has yet to divorce his estranged wife, Vera. But most importantly, she asked him to keep it quiet until after Ediths wedding. Tom and Lucy later have a child of their own, a female, named Violet after the now deceased Dowager Countess of Grantham . 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. Shackleton, if you can't take her side against treating people's diseases in a modern way, you can't sit with her. Later, at the memorial, Mary speaks to Bates, certain that Anna will not be convicted, and feels there will not even be a trial, as the police have nothing to go on. Hence, she becomes sensitive and upset when confronted with the topic of war. In the course of a sexual encounter with Mary, Pamuk dies in her bed of a heart attack. 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. At the end of the series, Bates is livid as Inspector Vyner calls Anna into Scotland Yard as part of an identity parade. Bates does not accept this, and insists that she alone is enough for him. When they return, Bates knows that it was she, not Mary that had the medical emergency; however, this time she tells him that the news is happy and that she is in fact pregnant, to which Bates is overjoyed. In the second series Christmas episode, it is apparent that Carlisle's pragmatism does not sit well with the Crawleys and he and Mary begin to argue more frequently, much to the consternation of Matthew and her grandmother. He arrives at Downton before leaving to settle his cousin's affairs, and Edith accepts his proposal. Bates believes they must be content as they are, but Anna continues to believe that she cannot give him what he needs. However, when he sees the departing Bates leaving, Lord Grantham is overcome with feelings of guilt. He joins his fellow former nobles on an outing to Downton in the spring of 1924. 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 end, it was Lord Granthams idea to bring Barrow back, giving the tortured serviceman something to finally smile about. By 1923, he still has not been found, but pieces of what happened to him are coming to light. When news reaches the Crawleys confirming Michael Gregson's tragic death, Lady Edith tells a terribly distraught Mrs Drewe the truth, reclaims her daughter, and flees to London. Miss Baxter refuses to inform Bates that, as a convicted criminal herself, she had to speak honestly to avoid another prison sentence. 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. The tale becomes known to other members of the family after it becomes a rumour in London. Heartbroken and angered by her hesitancy, Matthew withdraws his proposal and decides to leave Downton. With Matthew off at war and Mrs Crawley working with the Red Cross in France he and Mrs Bird, the family cook, find themselves in an empty house with no one to serve. Following his father's premature death, George becomes heir to his grandfather Robert and the Downton estate. A typical man. 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. Barrow succeeds him as butler, with Carson serving in a supervisory role. Carson wants it to be in the Great Hall of Downton Abbey, but Mrs Hughes disagrees because she "doesn't want to be a servant on her wedding day." Barrow accepts that Jimmy can never give him what he wants, so they instead agree to be friends. I believed I had missed out on it. While participating in the "Albanian talks" he visits Downton as a guest, accompanying Evelyn Napier. Over the course of six seasonsand a feature filmthe star-studded period drama Downton Abbey served up timeless lessons about life, love and loss. Deducing that Miss O'Brien is pressuring Jimmy to have Mr Carson demand Thomas leave Downton with no reference, he informs Lord Grantham of the details, and asks Thomas to give him a weapon to use against his former ally. When Elsie turns his proposal down he later married Ivy (died 1910) and had one son Peter, who joined the army. She loses her virginity to him. Eventually, after Barrow threatens to reveal her secret to Lady Grantham, Baxter is encouraged by Molesley to do so first. Cousin Matthew was surprisingly and unceremoniously dispatched via a random car accident. Alison Boshoff for the Daily Mail, England expects! 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. He is in love with Ivy, who is in love with Jimmy, while Daisy is in love with Alfred and determined to break them up. In series 6 only credited with the main cast in "The Finale". Timid by nature, other characters frequently take advantage of her naivete or pull rank by tricking her or handing her the more undesirable and menial tasks. Mary insists that Anna shouldn't return to her and Bates's cottage and instead allows Anna to stay in her room to have her baby. Pamuk rebuffs him and later uses this incident to blackmail Thomas, threatening to inform Lord Grantham about his indiscretion unless Thomas agrees to guide Pamuk to the room of Lady Mary later that same evening. Barrow is badly beaten instead. 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. 00:39 GMT 03 Oct 2015 March 4, 2016 / 1:53 PM Downton Abbey got some things correct, but some wrong. Andrew is hired by Carson on a temporary basis to work the week of Lady Rose MacClare's wedding at Grantham House in London. Mrs Hughes and Mr Carson get married in the St. Michael and All Angels Church. She is a widow as her husband died during the First World War. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. 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. However, it would endanger Anna once again, who is released on bail. [6] Maureen Ryan of the Huffington Post stated that she believed Matthew's death was beneficial to the story as his storylines had grown repetitive.[7]. Michael encouraged Edith to never be afraid to speak her mind and to write about whatever she wanted, even if it was not expected of a woman. Mrs Hughes and Mr Carson marry and go and run a B&B in Dawlish. Over time, however, the pair grow closer, and a romance develops. He believes she must have been lured into doing it, because it is not in her nature. Matthew is paralysed from the waist down while serving in the First World War, but, after a miraculous recovery and difficulty moving past Lavinia's death from Spanish flu, he and Mary wed in 1920. Mr Albert Mason (played by Paul Copley) is the father of William, the Downton footman who died of injuries received in the Great War. In September 1921, Mary gives birth to their son George, but Matthew is killed in a car crash while driving home from the hospital. Robert and Cora, whove had their own marital struggles, saw both their surviving daughters happy. Cora is surprised but confused. The stalwart housekeeper of Downton Abbey Elsie Hughes (called Mrs. Hughes, a courtesy title for all cooks and housekeepers, regardless of marital status) is the head housekeeper of Downton Abbey, a country house and estate in the Yorkshire region of England. It was the loveliest sentence Ive ever heard. He was present for the birth of David, now 19 and at university, and told Phyllis: Darling, I can see our little baby, its a beautiful boy.. The two try to continue their lives; however, both find it difficult to look past what has happened. Bates is subsequently charged with murder. They also learned to appreciate the modern direction their life was headed, with Cora modernizing her Lady Grantham title by running the hospital. They have one child. She dies at the end with Robert, Cora, Mary, Edith, Bertie, Denker, Isabel and Dickie by her side. During a conversation with Bates, Anna tells him that something in her history could stack against her in a court case. Bertie asks Edith to marry him the night of Charlie Rogers' death. Vera Bates (played by Maria Doyle Kennedy) (d. 1918) was the estranged wife of John Bates. I never thought real love the sort where your blood tingles and your world explodes with joy would happen to me at my time of life. Mr Mason becomes father-in-law to Daisy when she marries his son on his deathbed. Mrs. Hughes remains impassive, but replies (shortly after realizing what he was asking) with great happiness that she accept the proposal, saying with playful eyes "I thought you'd never ask" . 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. Bates becomes protective over Anna at the car racing at Brooklands, when she insists in running after Lady Mary after a fatal crash on the track. 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. ", "It's good to have more than one string to your bow. Carson is mortified when he suffers severe chest pains while serving the family dinner and as a consequence is forced to accept help from the female staff. "It is a bit of escapism, and there's nothing wrong with that in this particular moment in time, when it's all a bit too real and all a bit oppressive," she said, explaining that "Downton Abbey""offers an escape into another world, a world which is kinder in many respects, and one that looks more beautiful.". When it is revealed the new valet, Henry Lang, had shell shock, she was uncharacteristically sympathetic towards him and it was revealed that her own brother suffered from it due to the War. William had three brothers and a sister but all died at or shortly after birth, leaving him as the only child. He addresses her when the Prince of Wales mentions that her father, Lord Flintshire, hosted the prince's tour of India. Phyllis Logan was born in 1957 in Johnstone, outside Glasgow. Furious over this, she tells the judge in her divorce case that Bates paid her off to consent to it. Over the next few weeks she continues to help while Drake has taken a liking to her. Albert Travis (played by Michael Cochrane) is the Rector of St Mary's Downton whose living is under the patronage of the Earl of Grantham. 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. 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. Charlie, a good friend of Lady Mary's husband Henry, died in a car crash while competing in a race -- which probably only strengthened Lady Mary's dislike for fast driving. Her determination to treat the man piques the ire of Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, and preparing for a showdown, Violet shows up at Mr Drake's bedside only to witness the procedure and its unmitigated success. In A New Era, now seven years old, he is seen playing with his young cousins. McNally, meanwhile, has featured in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films as well as many other projects. She also begins to see Albert Mason, Daisy's father in law, and between the two of them, help Daisy to realise that no matter what happens with them, they will always be there for Daisy, and that they love her very much. Andy tries to break ties with Thomas, on account of Mr Carson, Mrs Hughes, and Mrs Patmore informing him that Thomas is a homosexual. 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