Downton Abbey, Series 6, Ep 8 – A New Couple for a New World
In Episode 8 winding up Series 6 of Downton Abbey, everyone upstairs and downstairs is left feeling a sense of loss or otherwise overjoyed at the turn of events
Dowager Duchess Violet
Downton Abbey Series 6, Ep 5 – Life is Short; Death is Sure
“Life is short, death is sure” in episode 5 of Downton Abbey Series 6, the end of the much-loved dramatic English iTV television series now begins to loom large
Downton Abbey Series 6 – Tears, Terrors & Temples, Ep 3 & 4
Downton Abbey Series Six is moving at a rapid pace resolving issues surrounding change for those upstairs and downstairs and we acutely feel the ground shifting
Downton Abbey – Season 4, Truth and Relationships
It’s all happening again at Downton Abbey and we will all once again become hooked on Julian Fellowes series of life lived stylishly in an English Country House
Downton Abbey Season 3 – ‘I Am Never Wrong’ Declares Dowager
‘Well….that is an easy caveat to accept’ says Dowager Countess Violet (aka the simply marvellous Maggie Smith) staunchly in a conversation with her son Robert, Lord Grantham and his wife Lady Cora in the Drawing Room of Downton Abbey, ‘Because I am Never Wrong’. And therein lies the crux of…
Downton Abbey Series 3 – New Obstacles and Double Standards
In Episode 6 we can all hope that after Lady Sybil’s funeral everyone will start to regain their equilibrium at Downton Abbey for the christening of her baby
Downton Abbey Season 3 – Facing the Consequences in Life
In Downton Abbey Season 3 Episode 4 there is a great deal of doom and gloom about as everyone seems to be facing up to the consequences of their actions in life
Downton Abbey Season 3 – Rationing Excitement & Good Manners
After the prospect of another wedding at Downton Abbey in Series 3 Episode 3 we were plunged into darkness and sorrow teaching us that we must ration excitement
Downton Abbey Season 3 Begins – Everyone Loves a Wedding
Matthew and Lady Mary have brilliantly kick-started the much anticipated Season 3 of Downton Abbey with a simple spring morning wedding in the village church
Downton Abbey Christmas Cracker – Truth and New Beginnings
What an episode the final in Series 2 of Downton Abbey turned out to be, reported our London correspondent, who was quite breathless with excitement about it all. The Christmas Special at Downton Abbey was shot full of lovely lines, many of them delivered once again by the delicious Dowager Duchess Violet, played so flawlessly and with such great verve and vigor by renowned English actress Maggie Smith.