Her fears are proven right after Edna intoxicates Tom then tries to blackmail him into marrying her with lies that she might be pregnant. The Prince of Wales (Oliver Dimsdale), the future King Edward VIII, is also present at Rose's debutante ball, and his affair with the married Freda Dudley Ward is the centre of Sampson's blackmail plot. She has one sibling, a sister Becky, who lives in Lytham St Annes Lancashire. In fact, after "Downton,"Logan appeared in the award-winning BBC series "Guilt," confirming that she's still in high demand. 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. 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. But when she reveals she knows he is married, he explains that his wife, Lizzy, whom he loved very much, has been in an insane asylum for some years with no hope of recovery. I kept asking him, No, what are you really doing? When I realised it was true, I was a bit miffed that he hadnt asked me first, but I liked having him around and Id love to work with him again.. "They're quite well known apparently. 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. His new job kept him bored, though, and Carsons situation left a convenient vacancy. Carson, the severe but soft-hearted butler, and Mrs. Hughes, the . 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. Horrified by Major Bryant's refusal to acknowledge Charlie and his father's bullying, Ethel refuses the offer. The next day, Vera is found dead from ingestion of rat poison. Thomas later tells Anna Bates that he's upset because he wasn't special to Jimmy, which Anna very adamantly disagrees with. When she is older, she affectionately nicknames Robert "Donk" (much to his consternation) after playing a game of "Pin the Tail on the Donkey" with him. They kiss and enjoy their reunion. Thomas Barrow later tells her about his homosexuality. Lord Grantham insists on using his influence to get Freddie into Ripon Grammar School and paying the school fees in future. He also helps cover up the scandal that the murder trial of Downton valet Bates would cause. 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. Under English law, her status as a lunatic cannot be used as grounds for divorce because she is neither the guilty nor innocent party. Mr Bates reassures Anna that nothing will change between them, and that he will always support her. Tom and Lucy later have a child of their own, a female, named Violet after the now deceased Dowager Countess of Grantham . He drugs Tom's drink so that he appears drunk. The Marchioness's lady's maid tells Vera about Lady Mary's liaison with Kemal Pamuk. Violet has Clarkson lie to mend their marriage. 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. Matthew will someday inherit both the earl's title and his real estate, thanks to the entail. Though unmarried, she is referred to as Mrs Hughes according to traditional titles for servants during the time period. 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. Mrs Hughes, like Mr Carson and Tom Branson, is unhappy about the fact that Edna Braithwaite has returned, and is certain that they cannot have her back. Martha Levinson (played by Shirley MacLaine) is Cora's brash, outspoken, and wealthy American mother. That leads Baxter to guess that Anna is pregnant. The couple met all the way back in 1994 while working on miniseries "Love and Reason" but didn't get married until 2011. In episode 2, without his knowledge, Anna visits Dr Ryder in London, who offers to perform a cervical stitch to rectify the problem with her carrying a child to term, but she must become pregnant again first. , updated While participating in the "Albanian talks" he visits Downton as a guest, accompanying Evelyn Napier. However, Rosamund also supports Edith throughout Edith's unplanned pregnancy and with finding a way to raise the child. This helps Daisy drop any objections she has about their pairing. But Mrs Hughes steadfastly reminds him he alone is to blame, and warns him to watch himself. He has feelings for Anna, but they are unrequited and she later marries Mr Bates. Madeleine Allsopp. During Bates's murder trial, Thomas applies for Bates's old job, but is rejected by Lord Grantham. When Logan first read the part, she thought she'd have to assume a strange English. They bumped into each other again two years later, when Kevin and Stevie had broken up. Her will-they-wont-they romance with roguish antiques dealer Lovejoy, played by Ian McShane, never did reach a happy ending and she left in 1993, feeling the drama had passed its peak. He visits Downton Abbey in 1917 as part of a tour of England to drum up support for the war effort. He arrives at Downton before leaving to settle his cousin's affairs, and Edith accepts his proposal. Marigold (born c. late December 1922 or mid-January 1923) is the illegitimate child of the late Michael Gregson and Lady Edith Crawley, as a result of their hidden love affair. Mrs Hughes has revealed that she has never actually been married, but adopted the "Mrs" title as befits a housekeeper. In the series finale, Carson begins to suffer from palsy that ultimately forces him into semi-retirement. RELATED: Downton Abbey: Main Characters Ranked by Intelligence. Anna was the member of staff who helped Lady Mary and her mother Cora carry the corpse of Kemal Pamuk out of Lady Mary's bedroom and was the only one who openly welcomed valet John Bates to the household, despite everyone else's initial prejudice against him on account of his limp. 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. Ambitious, she decides that she no longer wants to work in service and saves up her money to buy a typewriter to take a correspondence course in typing and shorthand. Mrs. Hughes is a creature 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. He was further humiliated after being handed a white feather at a benefit concert held in the Crawley mansion. In the Christmas Special, she receives a letter from Alfred, implying that they keep in touch. Thomas Ferguson Niall Branson (played by Allen Leech) was initially the family chauffeur, employed in Series 1. For example, when Mrs Hughes got the all clear on the possibility of her having cancer shesaw Mr Carson singing because he was so relieved. Matters are made much worse when Murray confirms that her history, of which the police are now aware, would look convincingly to the police like Anna was capable of violence. As she told an interviewer with an understatement worthy of her Downton alter ego: Theres an excitement in discovering that you can still fall in love when youre an ancient old trout.. perhaps to die far from home, was as natural and expected as any other part of his growth as a man. He meets Mrs Hughes at a fair in Downton after the death of Ivy and asked her a second time to marry him, giving her a parting gift of a small doll. She also has a nephew, Alfred Nugent, who later becomes a footman at Downton. . Bates is overjoyed by the news. In 1919, she asks Mrs Patmore if, after many years in service, she can be promoted from kitchen maid to assistant cook and Mrs Patmore agrees to ask Mrs Hughes if the budget can support promotion for Daisy. She reveals to Carson that Thomas is not the first person she has known "of that sort." Before she can bring herself to tell him about Marigold, Mary peevishly reveals the truth. The ne'er-do-well was pushed into traffic in Piccadilly Circus shortly after raping Anna Bates. [20] Finneran herself confirmed this.[21]. At Downton Abbey, he meets Violet again, who is shocked by his reappearance and what has happened to him. After William is severely injured saving Matthew Crawley during the Battle of Amiens, Daisy agrees to marry him to give him some happiness in his life but is widowed six hours later. Courtesy of PBS. Mrs Carson and Mr Carson return from their Scarborough honeymoon, only to be greeted by a welcome home party in the servants' hall, attended by upstairs and downstairs. By April 1912, Mrs Hughes is head housekeeper, a prestigious position that is more or less equal with Carson's office as butler. At Mrs Patmore's insistence, Mrs Hughes consults Dr Clarkson about a suspicious lump that she fears is cancerous; though visibly distraught at the thought of her illness she refuses to confide in any of the staff except Mrs Patmore, even at the cost of being upbraided by Carson for apparent laziness. Then they toast together and they go back upstairs with all the others to wait for Christmas day. Edith accepts him, and they marry on New Year's Eve 1925. The show provides us with stories of romance, betrayal, loss, and love. 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. Hugh MacClare, Marquess of Flintshire (played by Peter Egan), is a Scottish nobleman nicknamed "Shrimpie" and married to Susan, the niece of Violet, the Dowager Countess of Grantham. 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