@@MandieTerrier yes she was though this scene implicates that she had an affair with a Frenchmen who gifted her the villa and that he might be an illegitimate son.
It seems to me that Robert realized the full implications of this, meaning that he wasn’t the true Duke of Grantham. However since Mary & Mathew had a child together then the true bloodline continues just the same & Sybby gets a very sweet house too!
I know at the end the Dowager said he was his fathers son, but I wonder: perhaps she never 100% knew either way, so said what needed to be said so her son could be at peace. Being a good mother & family matriarch one last time before going 🥲
The countess is a special kind of person and she's not afraid to speak her mind and point out your flaws and at the same time she literally has a heart made of gold and jewels flowing through her veins instead of blood plus she's savage with that poison tongue
One problem I had with this film is that Robert, and a few others, had deep tans long before they got to the Cote de Soleil. But there's so much else that's wonderful!
Well it also takes longer in those times to travel down to the south of France, the tan isn't entirely unrealistic if they had the time to get a tan on the way
When you lose weight after a certain age, your skin doesn’t have the elasticity to bounce back. Thus, it superficially “ages” you quickly. Being an actor, I’m kind of surprised he didn’t get a chin tuck. He’d look much healthier and younger if he did.
Scenery, locations, set pieces - 10 out of 10 Costumes and makeup - 10 out of 10 Story line and plot - 0 out of 10 I thought Julian Fellows couldn't get more banal with his rose coloured view of upstairs/downstairs view on early 20th century big house Britain but he did. This was puerile crap.
Because its not the English custom to touch someone like that or anything besides a handshake is considered crossing a boundary, rather too vulgar and emotional. We feel violated! 😂 And we use our gaze and expression rather than excess of words as polite communication also.
It was confirmed he was legitimately the Earl's son near end of movie. Even if he wasn't legally it would still have been his because of how marriage laws work. And if somehow he was passed over it would have gone to Matthew anyhow.
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Do you pay for satellite or cable ?? Or internet for your tv & other devices as well ? They all have commercials, annoying ads tracking.. social media outlets don’t give a Damm about your opinion just your &$$$$$$$$
He is an officer in the British army at any rate and I imagine since they, at least back then, kept their ranks even in civilian life it is just a habit to wear a garrison hat.
Awesome way to demonstrate even ladies of breeding still had a mind of their own, even if society at the time had difficulty seeing them as anything else but baubles that hung off their husband's arms and gave birth to the next generation. History is filled with children born to other men but carry the name of the woman's husband . If the full truth was to come to light, so many folk would be disinherited of their families assets. At the end of the day - he found out the truth and actually gained a brother of blood which is wonderful and discovered his biological father loved his mother dearly, and yet received the honour of his mother's husband to call him father and inherit the family farm. In essence he was doubly blessed, he just didn't know it until the end of his mother's story. Shocked though he maybe at the discovery his mother was a master player in keeping secrets and looked after his future better than he knew. What a grandmother to have. No wonder she had such quiet empathy for all her granddaughters situations that were so unconventional - it was in the blood to be rebels :-)
No, he would still be the Earl because he was the only son of the Dowager. Whether he was the son of her husband or not he was the sole male child, and thus the heir, of that immediate family.
@@GamerKatz_1971 No, if Robert was not the legitimate son on the previous Earl of Grantham then he would not be entitled to the title of Earl or to any of the family estates. That's how the law worked at that time. Upon the death of the previous Earl of Grantham, the next legitimate male heir would inherit the title and the family seat at Downton Abbey, and all estates owned by the Earl. In an interesting way, this means the Matthew Crowley or, more accurately, his father was always supposed to inherit the title of Earl of Grantham. Or, if the previous Earl had permitted a female heir to inherit the family seat as well as the title, Robert's sister Rosamund would be the Countess of Grantham in her own right, and her husband would have the title of Earl Consort (however, he would never use the title of "Lord Grantham").
@@MatthewJames556 incorrect, it was not possible for a daughter to inherit the title… Insofar as the male relatives who died on the Titanic were the next closest heirs at the start of the series…if Robert was illegitimate, the title should have passed down their line [from the younger brother or closest male cousin of Violet’s husband the previous Earl Grantham]…then down the next junior line of Mathew’s father…since they ultimately had no heirs [male or female. Rosamund would have been a legitimate daughter and Lady…but not eligible to have inherited the Grantham title…and Robert and Cora of course would never have had the Grantham title and estates…nor would Edith, Sybil and Mary ever been “Ladies”…nor would they likely ever existed, since Robert and Cora would never have gotten together.
@@bruhdoe2984 Well, the TV Downton is sheer nostalgia but most of it is infinitely better than the 2 films. The second was a particularly idiotic, schmaltzy feel-good cringe-fest. I blame Covid. Fellowes went out of his way to make people feel better with happy endings for all characters (apart from Lady Violet who reached her natural end as Maggie Smith declared no more) and in the process he lost his sense of proportion. Did you notice Lord Grantham’s ultra-powerful suntan - and that was BEFORE they went to the Riviera?
@@58christiansful I thought the plot about the villa was interesting because it showed more of the Dowager’s past, but the plot about the filming, just no. And the first film about the King and Queen coming to visit is meh. The only really outstanding scene in that movie was when the Dowager tells Mary she’s dying.
