I love the continuity of Robert’s shame of marrying Cora for her money. Even from the first episode, he says he was ashamed of his motives. Then when his ulcer bursts at dinner, his only words during it were to Cora saying “just know I have loved you very much.” And then here, he wants to 100% assure his wife that he LOVES her despite his motives at the beginning, even though she already knew that.
Please tell me he doesn't lose Cora. That would just be too cruel, for him to lose his mother, his name AND his beautiful Queen, as well. He's already lost a daughter.
Great movie. I felt bad for Robert here when he started crying, but Cora was quick to comfort him and telling him that they weren't sad people was a nice touch.
Well, cheating is a conscious choice, not just a ''mistake'' - and everyone ''always knew'' he loved Cora. Also, when you do love someone ''so much'', you don't cheat because you don't want to risk losing it and hurting the person you allegedely love.
A big part of what took me so long to get into Downton was the idea of having to care about a bunch of rich toffs. Acting like this is what got me onboard.
If, as Dr Clarkson says later, Cora has Pernicious Anaemia ( which is treatable), that means from earlier in in the series, Lord Merton ( even if he’d had Pernicious Anaemia, which he actually didn’t, just Anaemia) could have lived years with it.
No, that is the beauty of Julian's writing. He showed us the growth that had happened in the medical knowledges. Before with Lord Merton, they did not know it could be treated. By now when Cora had it, they found the way how to treat it❤
The added story line, is that when Lord Merton was diagnosed, Pernicious Anaemia was NOT treatable. It was a death sentence so he would not have lived years with it. By the time of this movie, it was treatable.
She thought she had cancer which has similar symptoms to what she actually had. Through out the movie she was acting very differently and the only person to really notice was Edith.
His mother spent a week in France with the previous owner of this villa about nine months before he was born, and the son of the previous owner said that he thinks they're half-brothers and that's why his father left the villa to this woman he'd spent a single week with 40/50 years ago I think at the end she says that nothing happened and Robert is definitely a legitimate child of his real father, but honestly who knows if she was telling the truth (she's organised lies for family harmony before)
Did Hugh Bonneville have all that plastic surgery on his face to make him look like vintage and weathered tan leather? How extraordinarily strange. You’re drastically distracted from the great acting, fixated with this unnatural facial skin that looks more suited in Madame Tussaud’s or on a plate next to fried eggs and beans
More like the French Count making a fuss that his former villa was inherited by a non-aristocrat, and her cousins coming to her rescue, then Sybbie ends up falling in love with the Count's heir, and so finally he chooses to accept her since the villa will return to his family.
