Nevertheless, he maintains a fascination with medicine. Over the years, the characters have struggled through death, disease, war and imprisonment and the audience has been right there with them. Two years later, they had a baby, David. Welcome to MsMojo and today we're counting down our picks for the Top 10 Downton Abbey Moments. Below is a photo of Lady Edith with her sisters, Lady Mary and Lady Sybil, before the ill-fated wedding. Thomas does not admit to the others why he was attacked, and only sends a significant stare to Jimmy, who is guilt-stricken with the truth. And although there was a happy ending just in time for Christmas. Affable and good-natured, he was also a competent pianist (actor Thomas Howes is a pianist) and would entertain other servants during their free time. By the end of the episode she is awaiting results that will tell her whether or not she has breast cancer. The period drama surrounding the lives of the British aristocratic Crawley clan and their servants is a wonderful tale. As Hello! The Dowager Countess's Lady's Maid Gladys Denker takes advantage of him to go out drinking, but Thomas Barrow comes to his rescue, teaching Denker a lesson in the process. Still in the dark about her pregnancy, Anna begins to experience pains in episode 4, for which Lady Mary rushes her down to London, claiming to Bates that the emergency is hers, not Anna's. Edith's repeated visits began to arouse the suspicion and anger of Drewe's wife. Thomas provides Bates with words that lead her to believe Bates knows of her hand in Lady Grantham's miscarriage, and she quickly backs down. Anna is frightened that Bates discovered the truth and took his revenge. Lady Anstruther, returned from France, orchestrates a plan to turn up at Downton Abbey in pursuit of Jimmy. He would take on Downton footman Andy Parker as a farmhand, and at series end, would be pleased when Daisy would finally move to Yew Tree Farm with him at long last. Bates goes with her, and it is thought that his romance with Anna is over. Rosamund is one of the more headstrong and outspoken members of the family. The two attempt to move past the attack, but both find it very difficult. Moreover, her sweet love affair with the equally stoic Mr. Carson further endeared the housekeeper to everybody watching at home. Ethel bursts into the meeting with her son, proclaiming that Charlie is their grandchild, but Mr Bryant accuses Ethel of only being after their money and insists that his son was a good man. May Bird (played by Christine Lohr) was the cook for Isobel and Matthew Crawley at Crawley House. In series 6 and the 2015 Christmas Special, Andy and Daisy share some special moments with each other, and it looks as if they might live at Yew Tree farm with Mr Mason and possibly get married. She first meets Matthew when he is back in England on leave from the Army and they later become engaged. Leech's audition for the role convinced Julian Fellowes to expand his role and to transform Branson into an Irishman. Bates one day sets off to York alone, and returns the same day, and the family soon learn that Mr Green died in London that day, after falling under a bus. A shocked Mrs. Hughes finds new maid Ethel and house guest/patient Major Bryant in bed in the servant's quarters. In the first film, she reveals she is pregnant with Bertie's child. In series 3, she has a breast cancer scare; the lump is eventually diagnosed as benign. Because Alfred quickly becomes enamored with the new kitchen maid, Ivy Stuart, Jimmy also takes an interest. 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. Mrs Hughes, dressed in dreamy velvet lavender trimmed with silver thread, appears to have married her beau and is shown posing on the steps of a church carrying a wedding bouquet. A few days later, however, she tells him that she cannot take a house with him and reveals that she has not said it before so as not to ruin their "little dream": she has no money, since she has a sister with mental problems and she is the only one left in the family who has helped her financially; she regrets not being able to invest in a property together with Carson, but she has no other choice: she will work as long as they want, she will not be able to retire. Mrs. Hughes O'Brien's absence, which will be addressed in the season premiere, will probably have the biggest effect on head housekeeper Mrs. Hughes. When Barrow begins treating himself to cure his homosexuality and is suffering, Baxter convinces him to see Dr Clarkson, after which Barrow treats her with more respect. In 1922 he joins Violet and Isobel for lunch, later taking a walk with Isobel. His attitudes occasionally clash with that of the more progressive and pragmatic Cora. In the series finale, Carson begins to suffer from palsy that ultimately forces him into semi-retirement. Due to being stressed about other events, Cora unchracteristically yells at Mrs Hughes to put the coat away and to get out of her room. 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. / CBS NEWS. 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. "I am 'Phyllis who goes to the butchers,'" she said. Charles 'Charlie' Carson (played by Jim Carter), called Mr Carson by staff and Carson by the family, is the butler at Downton Abbey. Cora tells Robert the whole story when he asks if there is another reason for Mary staying with Carlisle when she obviously does not like him. Mrs Hughes, dressed in dreamy. Matthew eventually relents and uses the money to save Downton Abbey from bankruptcy following Lord Grantham's having lost his wife's fortune through bad investments. absolutely pissed that the movie people are at Downton, Mrs Hughes contrives to get Mary to tell Lord G to take him with them to France which Mary explains by saying 'make him think you'd feel he'd be useful to you' or words to that effect . Downton Abbey got some things correct, but some wrong. After that, the two of them are often seen in one another's company. For in an extraordinary mirror image of her characters life, Phyllis is virtually a newlywed herself, having tied the knot at the age of 55 for the first time in 2011. With the possibility of Alfred leaving to pursue his dreams of being a chef, Mr Carson offers Molesley a job as second footman if Alfred leaves. However, problems between the two are not over as Bates realises something has upset Anna. Carson and Mrs. Hughes Phyllis Logan as Mrs. Hughes and Jim Carter as Mr. Carson on 'Downton Abbey' Nick BriggsCarnival Films Carson's bout with what seemed like Parkinson's disease. She says that she does not want to be in service for the rest of her life and often complains about her surroundings. "Obviously the main intention is to. But Mr Mason insists to Daisy she has to say goodbye to him properly, and offers to help her find the right words to say. William asked Daisy if she would give him a photo that he could carry with him. In the Series Four Christmas Special, Jimmy travels with the Crawley family to London for the Season. 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. However, in the third series, Tom and now-pregnant Sybil are forced to flee Ireland after Tom becomes implicated in the burning of an Anglo-Irish nobleman's house. However, his physical dishevelment deceives Grantham into thinking that Thomas has more concern for the family than Grantham believed, and Grantham later tells Carson that he is willing to give Thomas a try as valet. "She's not one to just roll over and die with her legs in the air," Logan told Town & Country . She was in the habit of travelling to visit him on set with David. Outspoken, Ethel does not like being told what to do by anyone, which often has her in conflict with Anna or Mrs Hughes. Alfred's largest rival is fellow footman Jimmy Kent, who is shorter than Alfred, but quite handsome. In the first film, she is seven years old and continues to be raised with her first cousins George and Caroline, at the estate. The movie depicted the elite Crawley family thrown into a dilemma when they realize they're going to need much more help because the King and Queen make a visit to the estate and nearby town. Also in Series Four, Alfred is still caught up in the downstairs "love square". Michael Gregson (played by Charles Edwards) (d. around 8 November 1923) is a London editor for the society magazine The Sketch. Phyllis Logan was born in 1957 in Johnstone, outside Glasgow.
In response to this, the Dowager Countess decides to ask Mrs Bryant in person if Ethel could have contact with Charlie. She has one sibling, a sister who lives in Lytham St Annes. 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. So we left it in the lap of the gods. A pub owner confirms that Bates was indeed in York and would swear to it, which clears him. The judge voids the divorce decree, with the result that Vera and John are still legally married. Just before her death she confesses to Matthew that she had seen the kiss between him and Mary and tells him that her death is the best for all of them. They have busy careers but try not to be separated for more than eight weeks at a time. When the food does not meet her exacting standards, she takes her frustration out on the maids, especially Daisy. 1856) was the butler of Downton Abbey and began working at Downton Abbey as a Second Footman at the age of 19. 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. In the third series, when Lady Sybil goes into labour, he sees signs that she is suffering from eclampsia and is in danger of dying from the intense seizures and distress. More or less, she runs the entire servant branch of Downton Abbey alongside Thomas Barrow, after he replaced her husband, Charles Carson, as butler. 08:53 GMT 03 Oct 2015. 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. Fans were hooked on Mrs. Hughes' slow-burn romance with Mr. Carson on "Downton Abbey." Gwen Harding (born Dawson) (played by Rose Leslie) was a housemaid at Downton. Cora and Edith make up a story to tell her father Robert, that the pig farmer cannot financially care for this child along with his own children, and Edith asks Robert if Marigold can become her "ward." O'Brien is wracked with guilt, and following the incident, she becomes even more loyal and devoted to Cora. After discussing Edith's child, Marigold, at the servants dinner, Bates notices she has become subdued. Tom develops feelings for Lady Sybil, with whom he shares political interests and a determined personality. Anna and Bates die in a suicide pact motivated . Anna insists that they marry so that she will have legal rights if the worst happens. (Avoiding Spoilers) Living in Downton Abbey, a grand estate in Yorkshire, England. 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". I was knocked out by her right away. Chamberlain later reveals to Tom that he had been blackmailed into attending by Violet, who knew of his role in one of the notorious pranks performed by his brother-in-law, Horace de Vere Cole (in their youth, de Vere Cole, Chamberlain and some others had disguised themselves as workmen and had dug a trench across Piccadilly Circus, causing a massive traffic jam "from the East End to Belgrave Square."). Jimmy's whereabouts post-Downton are never revealed. Inspector Vyner of Scotland Yard returns to Downton and informs Anna and Bates that they have discovered that Green attacked several women. After struggling with infertility, Mary becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son, George, at the end of the third series. She has a baby boy and names him Charlie after his father, but Major Bryant refuses . He later leaves Downton as he feels he is unfit for service. Not really.". Later in series 6, Branson is instrumental in setting up Lady Mary with Henry Talbot, and in the series finale, goes in with Talbot on an automobile dealership. She told another interviewer motherhood at a late stage was a wonderful surprise. She calls it off with him but he becomes angry and refuses to break it off with her. Mrs Hughes discovers a round-trip ticket stub from York to London in an article of Bates's clothing that Anna donates to charity. I thought you'd never ask! He addresses her when the Prince of Wales mentions that her father, Lord Flintshire, hosted the prince's tour of India. 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.. Phyllis Baxter (played by Raquel Cassidy), is hired as lady's maid to Cora following the departure of Edna Braithwaite. And she noticed it when Mr. Ellis turned up on the doorstep of Downton Abbey that evening, just a few weeks after the royal invasion, a faintly smug smile on his lips and the reasoning that Mr. Barrow had . In the last episode of series one, O'Brien comes to believe that Cora is going to replace her. With the announcement of a movie sequel scheduled for release in March 2022, we're celebrating the best Downton Abbey quotesfrom both upstairs and down. He convinces her to go away with him to a hotel in Liverpool to be lovers, and she agrees, wanting to be sure he is the right man for her. Having known each other since childhood, they married young and had a very unhappy marriage. Years of gentle friendship and mutual respect between Downton Abbeys butler Mr Carson and housekeeper Mrs Hughes have blossomed into the slowest and most tender of courtships. "[16], Alexander Chee of The New Republic described O'Brien as the show's "best, most complex villain" and stated that her departure made the show less interesting. Gordon says he was rescued from the freezing ocean by Fifth Officer Harold Lowe but developed amnesia and was sent to Montreal after being mistaken for a Canadian. Her industrious nature, first discovered during the First World War when she opens and maintains Downton as a convalescent home for soldiers, and later put to use on the Downton hospital board, often causes conflict with Robert, especially after she becomes president of the hospital board in the final series. To be fair, her wedding to Mr. Carson Sunday night on Episode 3 of the final Downton Abbey season was in its own way as much of a feel-good fairytale moment as the wedding between Mary and Matthew back in Season 3. 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. Sweet-natured footman William went off to war, where he valiantly took a bullet for Cousin Matthew, leading to his demise. He continues to do so after Barrow returns, telling her that he does not care to know what Barrow has over her, but urges her to stand up to him and not let him make her do things she does not wish to do. Robert is immensely proud of Downton as the place he grew up and takes his responsibility for the estate very seriously; he sees himself as its caretaker, not its owner. She has developed a close relationship with Mr Carson; at the time the series begins, the two had overseen Downton's staff for almost 20 years. Upon learning that her parents are dead, he offers to take her under his wing as a surrogate daughter, which she accepts, though reluctantly at the outset. Tony instead becomes engaged to the Hon. 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