Downton Abbey: The London Season (Christmas Special 2013) [DVD]

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Weekly Top 10 Programmes: ITV HD w/e 29 December 2013". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Archived from the original on 13 January 2013 . Retrieved 6 November 2014. Weekly Top 10 Programmes: ITV HD w/e 22 September 2013". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016 . Retrieved 30 September 2013. Phyllis Baxter (played by Raquel Cassidy), is hired as lady's maid to Cora following the departure of Edna Braithwaite. Baxter is hired on Barrow's recommendation, and Cora is pleased with Baxter. However, it becomes clear that Barrow knows a secret about her, which he uses to his advantage to make her spy on the servants and family, something Baxter is very uncomfortable with. Fellowes, Jessica; Sturgis, Matthew (2012). The Chronicles of Downton Abbey: A New Era. The World of Downton Abbey. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1-250-02763-4. Weekly Top 10 Programmes: ITV1+1 w/e 06 November 2011". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board . Retrieved 4 January 2012.

The Crawleys host a ball in Grantham House: unexpectedly, the Prince arrives and opens the ball dancing with Rose. She becomes the "darling" of London society. Anna later tells Mary of her troubles. Mary offers to take Anna to London, paying for her to visit Dr Ryder, the doctor that had treated Mary for problems when she had trouble conceiving a child with Matthew. Weekly Top 30 Programmes: ITV1 w/e 25 December 2011". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board . Retrieved 3 January 2012.Mrs Isidore Levinson. Mother of the Countess of Grantham" "Martha is rich". "Even Martha's own daughter does not seem entirely comfortable around her. Cora is not exactly cowed by her mother, but..." [familytree 2]

John Bates (played by Brendan Coyle), who is mainly known as Mr Bates or just Bates, is Lord Grantham's valet. He previously served in the Army alongside the earl as his batman during the Boer Wars and suffered an injury to his right leg. Weekly Top 10 Programmes: ITV1+1 w/e 9 October 2011". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board . Retrieved 21 October 2011. Weekly Top 10 Programmes: ITV1+1 w/e 30 September 2012". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Archived from the original on 13 January 2013 . Retrieved 8 October 2012. Find sources: "List of Downton Abbey characters"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( August 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Weekly Top 10 Programmes: ITV HD w/e 6 October 2013". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016 . Retrieved 14 October 2013.Weekly Top 30 Programmes: ITV1 w/e 30 December 2012". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016 . Retrieved 10 January 2013. Weekly Top 30 Programmes: ITV1 w/e 16 September 2012". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016 . Retrieved 24 September 2012.

Weekly Top 10 Programmes: ITV1 HD w/e 4 November 2012". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016 . Retrieved 14 December 2012.Harold Levinson (played by Paul Giamatti) is Cora's younger brother. His peripheral involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal leads Martha to request that Lord Grantham appear before Congress to vouch for Harold's character late in series four – he escapes with only a reprimand. Harold then accompanies his mother to England in July 1923. While in England he makes the acquaintance of the Hon. Madeleine Allsopp. The two part on good terms, with Madeleine promising to write to Harold frequently. Not only was Isobel's late husband, Reginald Crawley, a doctor, but she herself had training as a nurse." "She comes from a proud line of medical practitioners – her father, Sir John Turnbull was a surgeon". [familytree 4] Matthew Reginald Crawley (played by Dan Stevens) (1885–1921) is a middle-class distant cousin of the Crawleys who becomes the heir to the estate in the first episode and soon after moves to Downton. He finds it difficult to reconcile the traditionalist, aristocratic lifestyle of Downton with his middle-class upbringing, but he is eventually accepted into the family and becomes something of a surrogate son to Lord Grantham. Matthew and Mary fall in love, but circumstances separate them, and Matthew becomes engaged to Lavinia Swire. 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. After a financial scare, Matthew becomes a co-owner of the estate, and begins working on plans to modernise it with the new agent, brother-in-law Tom Branson. In September 1921, Mary gives birth to their son George, but Matthew is killed in a car crash while driving home from the hospital. [4] Following his death, his son George becomes the heir to the earldom, and a letter is found that serves as a will for Mary to inherit Matthew's share of Downton. Tom Branson was supposed to appear in only three episodes of the first series, [8] and Branson was originally Yorkshire-born. [ citation needed] Moreover, actor Leech wanted to audition for Thomas Barrow, but chose Branson. Leech's audition for the role convinced Julian Fellowes to expand his role and to transform Branson into an Irishman. [8] Leech at first tried to develop a Yorkshire accent in an effort to prevent his character from becoming an Irish stereotype, but when he was persuaded that Tom would not become such, he used his native Irish accent. [9] Weekly Top 10 Programmes: ITV1+1 w/e 4 November 2012". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Archived from the original on 13 January 2013 . Retrieved 14 December 2012.