Shortly after this, Green is killed near Tony's house in Piccadilly Circus, and Tony travels to Downton to tell Mary the shocking news. The Duke of Crowborough (played by Charlie Cox) was one of many potential suitors for Lady Mary, but he was seeking a wealthy wife to cure his financial problems. She would be replaced by Phyllis Baxter, who had been hired on Thomas' recommendation (although he failed to reveal to Cora that she had been a criminal). In the second film, their son, Peter, is an infant, and Edith is once again involved in the day-to-day running of her publishing company and writing articles. During the Great War, after William is brought back to Downton mortally wounded, the Dowager Countess summons him to wed William and Daisy before William dies. Outwardly prim and somewhat strict in her manner as housekeeper, Mrs Hughes is essentially kindly and generous, as shown when she assists Ethel after she leaves her position and has a baby out of wedlock. However, because of his misdiagnosis of Matthew, Robert hires a well-known doctor who strongly disagrees with Clarkson. At the end of the third series, Tom becomes the land agent for the estate at Violet's suggestion, owing to having grown up on a farm in Ireland. Bates tries to ignore him at first. But Edith, Mary, Matthew and Isobel defend Tom, and Mary settles the matter once and for all by revealing Sybil did not object to her child being a Catholic. Tom Branson was supposed to appear in only three episodes of the first series,[8] and Branson was originally Yorkshire-born. She insults Barrow's arrogance and manner, though he responds in kind, and she leaves Downton once again. They share a moment in which Jimmy exhibits some doubt about the plan, wondering if perhaps Lady Anstruther just wants to talk. To prevent Carson embarrassing himself or the family, Mrs Hughes and Lady Mary conspire to have him join Lord Grantham's trip to the French villa instead. La quarta stagione della serie televisiva Downton Abbey stata trasmessa sul canale britannico ITV1 dal 22 settembre al 10 novembre 2013. 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. She attended secondary school at the American British Academy in Muscat, Oman, with her childhood friend Stegath Dorr, who is a character actor and a prolific horror filmmaker. Contents 1 Biography 2 Personality 3 Appearances 4 Notes 5 References 6 External Links Biography 1921 1922 1921 Eventually, his wife persuades him to accept the child as his grandson, and Mr Bryant offers to adopt Charlie. Unlike Carson, she privately views Lady Mary as a silly girl whose misfortune comes mostly from her own mistakes; her attitudes have likely softened over the years. Bates remains ignorant of the true meaning of the words, but he soon has other concerns when Lord Grantham decides to appoint Thomas as under-butler to take advantage of his skills at cricket; Bates had only hoped to allow Thomas to leave with a good reference. During her time as a housemaid, she would gain a huge crush on chauffeur Tom Branson, but he would not look at her, as he was in love with Sybil Crawley. In the second Christmas special, she accompanies Lady Grantham to Scotland to visit Duneagle Castle. Solve your "Downton Abbey maid" crossword puzzle fast & easy with the-crossword-solver.com. He hides the Crawley family dog, Isis, whom he hopes to "find" to curry favour with Lord Grantham. Bates goes to York for the day but does not reveal the reason for going and Mr Green dies in Piccadilly after "falling into the road". He has a stern, but fatherly, disposition over the servants. Jimmy continues to be manipulated against Thomas by O'Brien, while John Bates and Elsie Hughes work to protect Thomas from the fallout. . He informs Lady Grantham that he suspects the new nanny may be mistreating the children in some way. At first, Edith was told he disappeared after going out once he checked into his Munich hotel. Series six deals with Carson's and Hughes' marriage and life as a married couple. 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. He constantly hatches schemes with O'Brien, intending to have Bates removed from service at Downton. Edna has considerable charm, which she uses to her advantage. After struggling with infertility, Mary becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son, George, at the end of the third series. Mr Green briefly returns to Downton, and Lady Mary persuades Lord Gillingham to dismiss him, although she does not give him a reason. The pair see each other often in London during series six and they fall in love. Amused instead of scandalised at the revelation, Grantham gently declines Carson's offer, ending the matter as a non-issue. This helps Daisy drop any objections she has about their pairing. It's just a shame she went about it in such a manipulative and mean-spirited way, attempting to guilt and control Tom Branson. Anna and Bates also continue the plan to sell Bates's mother's London house in order to purchase a house up north and hire it out. At the end of series five, Tom decides to leave Downton for Boston, Massachusetts with his daughter, but he eventually changes his mind and returns permanently to Downton. Ultimately, his actions do not matter, as she confesses to Matthew about Pamuk and Matthew proposes to her despite this. In episode 5, Bates is insistent that nothing will go wrong with the pregnancy, when Anna begins to worry. He returns to Downton, having apparently settled affairs with his wife, but Miss O'Brien contacts Vera and once again, she returns to cause more trouble. However, Robert relents after seeing how effective Cora is in the role. 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. In the Christmas special he is invited by Lord Grantham to the traditional Christmas shoot but repeatedly turns it down. Inspector Vyner of Scotland Yard returns to Downton and informs Anna and Bates that they have discovered that Green attacked several women. He would ask Mrs. Hughes to write her a good reference. They had been too scared to come forward before but had now stepped forward and informed the police of his actions. For his part, Mason knows how he is affecting them and tries to give them as much space as possible. However, she eventually decides she does not want to marry any of them, providing a shock, especially for Tony. He eventually takes a position in a smaller household, but when Carson develops an illness, Barrow is invited back to Downton to become the new butler. When she does, Alfred apologises to her, regretting being blinded by his infatuation for Ivy and failing to see how good and true Daisy had been to him. She calls it off with him but he becomes angry and refuses to break it off with her. In series six, despite her sister Mary's efforts to separate them, Edith marries Bertie Pelham, becoming a marchioness, and he and her family come to accept her daughter Marigold. His mother later tells George that it was time for his bedtime, and about the sudden demise of his father Matthew, only moments after his birth. He has feelings for Anna, but they are unrequited and she later marries Mr Bates. Although convinced that there is no evidence for anything to happen, Anna is later arrested for Green's murder. She also discusses with Charles Blake his feelings for Mary. Lady Anstruther, returned from France, orchestrates a plan to turn up at Downton Abbey in pursuit of Jimmy. 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. His mother died of illness towards the end of the first series. Still being ignored by the rest of the staff save Anna, he gains an ally in William when he observes Thomas bullying the younger man, who is suffering with severe homesickness. At the end of the series five Christmas special Mrs Hughes has accepted Mr Carson's marriage proposal. Unable to get out of his commitment himself, Bertie's mother-in-law Cora and Queen Mary intercede on his behalf. After a confrontation with one of the Russian emigres, Count Rostov, which Rose witnesses, Atticus reveals his family had emigrated after being driven from Odessa in that city's 1859 and 1871 pogroms. After discussing Edith's child, Marigold, at the servants dinner, Bates notices she has become subdued. In 1924, she meets, falls in love with, and marries Atticus Aldridge, the Jewish son of Lord and Lady Sinderby. In 1922 he joins Violet and Isobel for lunch, later taking a walk with Isobel. When they return, Bates knows that it was she, not Mary that had the medical emergency; however, this time she tells him that the news is happy and that she is in fact pregnant, to which Bates is overjoyed. Mr Bates, to Thomas's surprise, intervenes, by informing Lord Grantham of the details and then offering to force O'Brien to call Jimmy off. During the Christmas episode, Bates visits Anna in prison where she reveals that a secret from her past could compromise any character witness statement the Crawleys make in her favour. It is suggested by the earl's solicitor, George Murray, that Major Gordon might actually be Peter Gordon, who worked with the real Patrick Crawley at the Foreign Office, which would explain how he knew some of the private details of the Earl's family. Leech's audition for the role convinced Julian Fellowes to expand his role and to transform Branson into an Irishman. He believes she must have been lured into doing it, because it is not in her nature. Heartbroken and angered by her hesitancy, Matthew withdraws his proposal and decides to leave Downton. 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. Through careful manipulation of both Thomas and Jimmy, O'Brien crafts a situation in which Thomas is caught publicly making a move on Jimmy, who reacts in fear and anger, as male homosexuality was still illegal in the 1920s. This greatly upsets the farmer's wife, who was led to believe that the child was the orphaned daughter of her husband's friend whom she never met. As a powerful and extremely wealthy noble with palaces and thousands of acres of land, he and Violet met in Saint Petersburg in 1874 while she and her husband, the then Earl of Grantham, were in the retinue of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. He is one of the few people who is prepared to speak frankly to her, and is prepared to leave Downton Abbey to join her at Haxby when she is engaged to Sir Richard Carlisle. He appears to have been warned off Thomas by Mr Carson, Mrs Hughes, and Mrs Patmore. When Bates is deemed guilty and is sentenced to be hanged, Anna breaks down and briefly prepares to leave Downton Abbey with Lady Mary, whom she is very close to, offering to accompany her mistress on an extended holiday to America, much to Mary's delight. Defeated, Edna leaves the room. By series four the love triangle is getting nowhere until Alfred decides to leave after catching Ivy kissing Jimmy. The brusque, domineering and nouveau riche Carlisle is a self-made, extremely wealthy newspaper magnate from Edinburgh whose paper, with the help of Lavinia Swire, was instrumental in breaking the Marconi scandal story. During the second series, Matthew serves in the First World War and both become engaged to other people, but after a series of obstacles, Matthew proposes to her again, and the two marry. Anna reveals to him that she believed she was pregnant, but that morning had realised that she had miscarried their child, and that it wasn't the first time it had happened, but the third. She firmly believed that she could guilt Tom into responding to her as she represented the same working class that he himself had been part of earlier. She does not return in the second series and is replaced by Ethel. In 1924 they announce they are getting married, but Violet isn't so happy (because she does not want to lose her friend and companion in Isobel). Considering Charlie's future, she gives him to Mr and Mrs Bryant. Edna is sneaky, dishonest, and not particularly fun to watchshe's so obviously those first two things that you can't imagine anyone, upstairs or downstairs, would be so foolish as to trust or.