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. 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. And then there is Cora and Robert who, at times, was a lovely couple, and at other times made you want to tear your hair out. She reveals the story of Anna's attack but states that the attacker was a stranger who broke into the house. She gets a new hairstyle and announces that she will move into Yew Tree Farm with Mr Mason, while still working at Downton. Barrow finds Jimmy just as he is cornered by two members of the opposing team, and puts himself in the way so Jimmy can avoid being beaten and mugged. She dies at the end of the second film. Thomas later tells Anna Bates that he's upset because he wasn't special to Jimmy, which Anna very adamantly disagrees with. Lord Merton remarks that both his sons are very much like his late wife, to whom he was not happily married. She is employed in Crawley house by Isobel and Mrs Patmore teaches her to cook, despite Mrs Bird leaving her post. He helps Matthew and Mary modernise Downton. In episode 7, after the accident at the car racing in Brooklands, Anna rushes after Mary, Bates warns her not to do so "in her condition" and he asks Baxter to go after her. With some confusion on calling Mrs Hughes by her married name, the newlyweds both decide to keep their original titles whilst they are working, with Mr Carson by referred to as 'Carson', and Mrs Carson to be referred as 'Mrs Hughes'. After England's disastrous defeat to Wales can captain Chris Robshaw's (rather pushy) blonde inspire him to win? The final series also deals with Carson downsizing staff to adjust for the current times. In Series 5, Mrs. Hughes tells Mr. Carson that O'Brien has left Lady Flintshire to serve as lady's maid to the wife of the new governor of the Bombay Presidency in British India. In between serving in the Anglo-Boer War and joining the staff at Downton Abbey, John Bates went to prison for a theft that Vera had committed. She worked at Dundee Repertory and appeared in several TV series, including Inspector Morse and Another Time Another Place. He thanks her, clearly very touched, after they talk about it later. She is also entrusted with teaching Lady Sybil how to cook, something which the pair enjoy. They are both in competition for the top position of first footman, which Jimmy is constantly sabotaging Alfred for. Edith's repeated visits began to arouse the suspicion and anger of Drewe's wife. Mrs. Hughes offers her hand to steady him and they slowly walk into the water together. Through Lady Rose MacClare, who is one of the helpers, he learns of her relationship to Violet and that the Dowager Countess still lives at Downton. The next day, Vera is found dead from ingestion of rat poison. He has a close relationship with Mrs Hughes, built up over a quarter-century of overseeing the household staff. After being told he would not make it, William proposes to Daisy and tells her that he wants to marry her, not just out of love, but also to secure her a widow's pension so that she would be taken care of. From then on, though clear she disapproves of Ethel's choices, Mrs Hughes smuggles food to the poverty-stricken Ethel and her infant son, attempting several times to give an irresponsible Major Bryant Ethel's letters. He was interested in studying medicine once in his life, but his father did not think it suitable for someone of his position. Over the course of six seasonsand a feature filmthe star-studded period drama Downton Abbey served up timeless lessons about life, love and loss. 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. He said: Id seen her occasionally but she was just another old luv, really., He added: I was the worse for wear that night, but Phyllis indulged me by letting me pour out my troubles. Over the next few weeks she continues to help while Drake has taken a liking to her. Thomas is then attracted to the handsome new footman, Jimmy, and walks into his room and kisses the sleeping Jimmy. In episode 3, Mary asks if Anna has considered Dr Ryder's advice. Unable to get out of his commitment himself, Bertie's mother-in-law Cora and Queen Mary intercede on his behalf. In Downton Abbey: A New Era, newlyweds Daisy and Andy are sharing the farm with Mr Mason. Shortly beforehand, Thomas signs up to the Royal Army Medical Corps in an effort to avoid being sent to the frontline for the war that is soon coming. She calls it off with him but he becomes angry and refuses to break it off with her. He and Mrs. Hughes did get married, but only after some shyness and awkwardness on both their parts . William Mason (played by Thomas Howes) (d. 1918) was the second footman at Downton. The first Downton Abbey film, which was released in Sept. 2019 in both the U.K. and the U.S., picked up in 1927, a couple of years after the show signed off. By the end of the episode she is awaiting results that will tell her whether or not she has breast cancer. 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. During the time apart from Bates, Anna refuses to fall into hopelessness or despair, though there is a brief period where this wavers, when letters and visits with her husband are stopped for a time. Despite these virtues, Robert's adherence to tradition lets him down in other ways. But it's pointless me rocking up to LA now and saying 'OK I am here!'". Not really.". 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. Fearing for his safety, Lord Grantham had him assigned to Matthew Crawley's battalion to be his batman. John Bates (played by Brendan Coyle), who is mainly known as Mr Bates or just Bates, is Lord Grantham's valet. When Logan first read the part, she thought she'd have to assume a strange English. I burst into tears. Mrs Patmore has decided to buy a cottage to set up as a bed and breakfast, and Carson thinks he could do a similar thing with the housekeeper, to earn a nice nest egg after retiring. He encounters Edith during a round of grouse shooting and keeps company with her during afternoon tea and the evening festivities. While Barrow is away in America with Lord Grantham (as John Bates asked to be excused from the trip to remain with his wife), Baxter grows closer to Joseph Molesley, who treats her with respect. When he returns to Downton to attend a house party, his valet, Mr Green, rapes Anna. "[17] Finneran stated her belief that O'Brien's negative attitudes originated from how the character "has basically sacrificed her entire life to somebody else, for the good of their life and their home its no wonder that she would get frustrated or angry about things. Though Isobel is concerned about marrying Lord Merton when his sons do not approve of her, Violet insists she should not let them ruin her future. Magazines, Digital Madeleine Allsopp. His son Larry, who was once keen on Sybil, treats her husband Tom with rudeness and disrespect. William had three brothers and a sister but all died at or shortly after birth, leaving him as the only child. As the series rolled on, each character's personality became more clear, making the Downton Abbey casts scale of likability more apparent. Mrs Hughes, like Mr. Carson, does her best to keep up the work pace while the family is in Scotland, but does ask him to let them have some fun. Anna insists that they marry so that she will have legal rights if the worst happens. Anna is frightened that Bates discovered the truth and took his revenge. After filming, they took a holiday in California and finally got married eight years after he proposed. Bates does not accept this, and insists that she alone is enough for him. Inspector Vyner of Scotland Yard returns to Downton and informs Anna and Bates that they have discovered that Green attacked several women. When Mary asks why, Mrs Hughes has to reveal the truth of what happened to Anna, but once again remains silent as to who was responsible. Alfred's largest rival is fellow footman Jimmy Kent, who is shorter than Alfred, but quite handsome. At Downton Abbey, he meets Violet again, who is shocked by his reappearance and what has happened to him. [14], Thomas was originally meant to be written out of the show at the end of the first series once he had had his "comeuppance". Mrs. Hughes is acreature of habit, so it's easy to imagine that she wouldn't take kindly to being stuck at home doing nothing during the COVID-19 lockdown. The happy couple shares a son, David, and lives in Chiswick, England. Bates then invite O'Brien to his cottage, and whispers the words "her ladyship's soap" in her ear, before warning her that unless she calls Jimmy off, he will not keep her secret. Daisy initially tried to avoid seeing Alfred at all, but eventually speaks to him and wishes him well as a friend. In the end, Alfred realises too late that he was chasing the wrong girl, while Ivy comes to a similar realisation about Jimmy, who was clearly out for sport. 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. Joseph Molesley (played by Kevin Doyle) (b. She is unhappy in her marriage, and seeks to end it. The older Mr Mason later explains to Daisy that William was his only surviving child and he had realised that William married Daisy not just because he cared for her but so his father would have someone to keep company. This eyesight problem is declared to be cataracts, the surgery for which is new and daunting to Mrs Patmore, but the operation is successful and she regains the full use of her eyesight. She is one of Anna's closest allies, being the first person who helps her in the aftermath of Mr Green's attack. Carson's main complaint is that a valet should perform extra duties outside of just seeing to Lord Grantham, including carrying trays and acting as a third footman if necessary. She is very stoic, but is also ethical and never two-sided. Carlisle leaves the morning before the Servants' Ball, but not before revealing that he did genuinely love her. During the War, he served with Charles Blake in the Royal Navy aboard Jellicoe's flagship HMS Iron Duke at the Battle of Jutland. Rose befriends the prince's mistress, Freda Dudley Ward, who comes to her when a letter from the prince is stolen by Terence Sampson, a greedy acquaintance from Robert's club. By , updated She maintains a quarrelsome rivalry with Violet, the Dowager Countess, but this eventually develops into a genuine friendship, especially after Isobel is grief-stricken by Matthew's unexpected death and Violet's brief illness. Eventually, after Barrow threatens to reveal her secret to Lady Grantham, Baxter is encouraged by Molesley to do so first. Throughout the first series she is often seen bossing around and shouting at Daisy while working but cares for her like a daughter and often offers her advice. 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. Mr Mason gave some books to Andy, and he reveals to Thomas that he can write no more than his own name; Thomas offers to teach him to read and write. He took his new surname from a bottle of gin. She is the first one to know Anna was raped by Lord Gillingham's valet Green (until Anna tells Mary), having found her afterwards. She later reveals to Mrs Patmore what she saw, but is surprised Mrs. Patmore is glad to be away. The couple were part of a Covid bubble while filming in the South of France before shooting on the Cote D'Azur started. 2023 TIME USA, LLC. Over the years, the characters have struggled through death, disease, war and imprisonment and the audience has been right there with them. While he is recuperating, Jimmy comes to speak with him. Robert then asks him to dinner after Tom Branson expresses his wish to baptise his daughter Catholic like himself, a decision Robert opposes. Its up to you, he said. In 1921, Rose's relationship with her mother has soured, though her relationship with her father is better. An overconfident Thomas makes a snide remark that Mr Bates can do nothing to stop him only for Bates to violently grab him and shove him against the wall, proving that despite his disability he is not to be underestimated. 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. However, when he sees the departing Bates leaving, Lord Grantham is overcome with feelings of guilt. However, because of his misdiagnosis of Matthew, Robert hires a well-known doctor who strongly disagrees with Clarkson. Who inherits Downton? Bates finally confronts his wife and reveals the truth; he realised Green was the attacker as soon as he returned to Downton, and he did intend to murder the valet the day he was killed. Mrs Carson shares a toast with the attendees of the reception, along with her newlywed, Mr Carson. After the First World War, Tom and Sybil receive Robert's reluctant blessing and marry in Dublin. Patrick Gordon (played by Trevor White) is a major in the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry who made a request to stay at the convalescent home at Downton Abbey because he claims he is related to the Crawley family. Mary had thankfully gone to bed at a very reasonable time, and she would be home to the cottage by half past ten. They share a moment in which Jimmy exhibits some doubt about the plan, wondering if perhaps Lady Anstruther just wants to talk. Mary is concerned that the royal staff is running roughshod over Barrow. But she still holds Hughes close to her heart. Jimmy Kent (played by Ed Speleers) was one of two new footmen introduced in Series Three, after the end of World War I. Vyner tells Mary and Anna that the witness has confirmed that they had seen Anna on the pavement near Green in Picaddilly when the incident occurred. He knew Mary since they were young children, but they did not become reacquainted as adults until after Matthew's death at the end of series three. In 1921, he hosts the Crawleys at Duneagle Castle, his family's Scottish estate. Mrs Hughes and Mr Carson marry and go and run a B&B in Dawlish. Violet attempts to find the whereabouts of Princess Irina through Lord Flintshire, who is her nephew-in-law, and eventually receives a letter from Lord Flintshire saying the Princess may have fled to Wan Chai, Hong Kong, where she might be working as a nurse. 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. More or less, she runs the entire servant branch of Downton Abbey alongside Thomas Barrow, after he replaced her husband, Charles Carson, as butler. In episode 6 he insists on paying for Anna to have an appointment with Dr Ryder when she begins to experience lingering pains again, and asks that she stop keeping him in the dark. However, Rosamund also supports Edith throughout Edith's unplanned pregnancy and with finding a way to raise the child. "She'd have Mr. Carson digging up his carrots, and she'd be taking them round like Florence Nightingale," she said. In the Series Three Christmas Special, he tries to call Jimmy off his aggressive streak towards Thomas, and then spends the rest of the episode talking about his interest in cooking. Eventually they do, and she even takes a picture of Carson's old love Alice Neal and frames it for him. After her wedding, to avoid confusion with her husband, Anna is still called by her first name by the staff and family, unlike standard practice for lady's maids of the time. When the war ends, Thomas tries to make a profit by taking advantage of the nationwide rationing by selling goods on the black market. After being informed that this story was untrue by Isobel Crawley, the doctor corrected the report to the War Department, and William is drafted shortly thereafter. When she asks him if he expects her to help him, hestates he did not know who else to turn to. Edith is very worried and decides to get an abortion. It becomes clear Shrimpie is deeply unhappy about his marriage to Susan. Here she is again, as the starchy Mrs. Hughes in service at "Downton Abbey." When Logan first read the part, she thought she'd have to assume a strange English accent. Stand-up Comedian, Actress, Writer and Grandmother The Time I Almost Got Arrested. She is one of eleven children and her parents are deceased. When Elsie turns his proposal down he later married Ivy (died 1910) and had one son Peter, who joined the army. Mary tells the Bateses that their newborn son is welcome to stay at Downton's nursery during the day, as Anna wants to continue working at Downton, and that soon their son will be joined by a child of her own, as Mary is now pregnant. I thought you'd never ask! In Series 6, Gwen returns, eleven years later, to Downton as a successful married woman, although she visits the mansion only in the fourth episode. During her visit to Violet in 1920, she unexpectedly joins Edith and Matthew on a trip to London, claiming that she is planning a surprise for her mother. Jane Moorsum (played by Clare Calbraith) was a maid at Downton Abbey and Ethel's replacement. Before she came to Downton in 1895 as head housemaid, she was courted by a farmer, Joe Burns. She decides to avoid seeing him when he comes to say final goodbyes, but her father-in-law, whom she goes to see, convinces her she must say goodbye to him. Mr Green briefly returns to Downton, and Lady Mary persuades Lord Gillingham to dismiss him, although she does not give him a reason. He visits Downton Abbey in 1917 as part of a tour of England to drum up support for the war effort. 1873) was the butler of Crawley House, in the village of Downton, and valet for Matthew Crawley. The couple met all the way back in 1994 while working on miniseries "Love and Reason" but didn't get married until 2011. He previously served in the Army alongside the earl as his batman during the Boer Wars and suffered an injury to his right leg. When Lady Cora learns that Mrs Hughes is supporting Ethel, she is persuaded to invite Major Bryant's parents to Downton Abbey. When Mrs Bird refuses to work with a former prostitute, she chooses to leave. 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. In series 3, she has a breast cancer scare; the lump is eventually diagnosed as benign. Their increased companionship is suggested by showing Jimmy often with a cigarette. Matthew is left a considerable sum by Mr Swire, and Matthew is initially consumed with guilt and refuses to accept it. Outspoken, Ethel does not like being told what to do by anyone, which often has her in conflict with Anna or Mrs Hughes. She supposes Bates might not have been nearPiccadillyand instead might have been in London for a different reason. By the end of the series, Molesley finds work as a schoolteacher. While John is in prison, Anna is able to track down a neighbour of Vera's who saw her on the day of her death. In May 1925, he married Elsie Hughes, the head housekeeper at Downton. During an informal ball in the servant's hall, he dances with Daisy. After he confesses to Daisy, she reveals she wasn't flirting and, impressed by his actions, is ready to start planning her marriage to Andy. 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