Nothing Gets By The Dowager Countess | Downton Abbey 

i know right, she hasn't found her love.... and i don't get why she isn't more often at Downton, the more the merrier

Agreed she is an amazing actress and her character is so much like Edith’s, I love the parallels and I love that Edith has an ally in the family

That was my favorite line from the scene 😂

A grandmother I wish I had.

I literally just laughed out loud. 😂😂😂 The Dowager is always too much. .... PEACE to ALL.

but Aunt Rosamund has no child, all her wealth would be given to Edith or Mary or their offspring anyway. it would be interesting who she would gave it too, since Edith is now rich af, Mary also. who will get her amazing town house... my guess is Edith's first born

@@samanthasmith61 It's not entirely clear who owns what. British common law property can get rather complex, especially in the upper class. We don't know if Rosamund owns the house outright, or if perhaps she is merely the beneficiary of a trust. It could be that the house belongs to the Crowley estate, and that she has the rights to it for life, after which it reverts back to the estate. The dowager countess' house itself is, I believe, part of the estate: Violet does not own it, but she may be legally entitled to it by the terms of the fee tail. It's called the "dowager house", so it's possible that it's been set up to accommodate all the widows of the successive earls.

She is a middle child and she us natural at it.

Her mother didn’t know at the time.

@@Stand663 No one knew Edith was pregnant at the time. That's the point. Rosamund and Violet could tell something was up, but Cora and Mary were clueless.

In the 1976 movie "Murder by Death", Maggie Smith plays a character named Nora Charles. There is a scene where she shouts at another character. Even though she knows that this other character is totally deaf, she shouts even louder. Maggie Smith is a riot in that film.

I thought Violet said, "If she wishes to be understood by a foreigner, she shops." That makes more sense to me.

Good hot shade 😂😂😂

"That's not fair."

Nothing really changes except we now use more hand gestures to back up the shouting

That’s the 🇬🇧 way Talk louder & point 😂

perhaps the most English of adages I have ever heard LOL

Savage, I love it.

During the filming of Downton Abbey Dame Maggie Smith developed an eye condition which affected her vision.

@@lavillablanca she was diagnosed with graves' disease in 1988 I believe

😅

Family Guy did a funny cutaway about that.

Agreed. So modern really, in how we love each other.

@@theoutlook55Even modern families don't love each other as much

Having a child out of wedlock is still considered a terrible thing in some communities.

@Bardenbella120 she didn’t help, she was a manipulative bully, I really didn’t like her.

@@dorothysurry1368 She was helping in a way that was appropriate for the time period

@@10293 She did not have the right to do anything, she is Edith’s aunt, as Cora said in a different episode why did no one tell her,

There’s been some speculation that Rosamund was Edith’s birth mother - which would explain so much.

@@iZaeVideos that would be such a twist

Yes!

hahaha so true

So true, Lady Grantham.

Swiss lad here, I confirm this is as true today as it was made up to be for this series. There are exceptions.

@@MFRU-vid683 Hmm, what does that mean though? Do the Swiss people not converse as much with each other as the British?? I was always confused by this statement. I originally assumed it meant that, being English speakers, they wouldn't have as many conversations as they might like with people who didn't have English as a first language, or in some cases at all. But perhaps it meant something else?

@@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER no, of course not. But I did GCSEs and A-Levels at an English school. The debate culture is a great and immensely valuable institution of British society. It starts as an extracurricular at school and it’s practiced at every level of education and science, politics and culture up to the PMQs at the Commons. We don‘t have this or anything remotely comparable, which is why political debate in this country or the lack thereof, rather, is an embarrassment, to say the least. Our politicians try. Some people in the sphere of political influence try to change this. Notable example: Markus Somm, historian, journalist and Editor in Chief of the Nebelspalter. Debate is fantastic to explore issues and form your own opinion. This debate culture has an effect on societies and how they converse. It encourages people to research, to read and to think. It cultivates (mostly polite) wit and a more diverse use of broad vocabulary and language. Most Swiss people are quite simple minded, even after completing tertiary education. There is no knowledge about art, no interest in the classics, no appreciation for theatre and quite frankly a lack of general knowledge and interest in the rest of the world in the majority population.

Absolutely.

Dowagers generally are.

Absolute hats off to the writer Julian Fellowes, when HE goes, we will lose his writing. Downton does not exist if he does not. I'd love to meet him, but know I would be dumb struck in his company.

It’s Granny, Grandmama is Cora’s mother.

The clock in the background, the birds, the insects, everything its so real

I like the sounds of their heels on wood or carpet. Or the sound of the skirts brushing. Or the tea being poured in cups

Oh, yeah. Great match!

Yess! Yeeesss! *YAASSSS*

Can u imagine !!?

“Evil under the sun” (1982)

RIP Lady Olenna.

And Switzerland is so clean. Lol

I don't even want to think about that!

How disrespectful of you Carlo. Eulogies are to be written after a passing, Maggie is alive and WELL.

Carlo Zabbia agree

Knock on wood! Our goddess is still full of vinegar and British charm 🧐

@@michaelreilly3513, She reprised her role as Professor Minerva McGonagall in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince while undergoing chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. Incidentally, Minerva was the Roman goddess of wisdom and warfare. If that doesn't describe inner strength and vigour and being resilient through tough times, I don't know what does. Yes, we must all face the same conclusion, but she has pep in herself yet.

Literally me at work every day dealing with idiots.

It’s interesting that her own mother didn’t pick up on this.

@@slcRN1971perhaps she would have in regular circumstances.... But she was rather preoccupied by the bazaar

@@slcRN1971 parental love can be blinding

A half-baked excuse? You mean for going to Switzerland?

@@harringt100 No. That their story for going away wasn't well thought out. Going to Switzerland for several months so they could learn French..... Even Cora was like "really?"

They look nothing alike other than being white and slim.

ROSAMUND AND VIOLET LOOK SO ALIKE THAT I THOUGHT SAMANTHA BOND WAS REALLY MAGGIE SMITH'S DAUGHTER

@@ladymcgonagall you’re shouting like Rosamund with foreigners as if shouting makes them accept your point

@@KoiYakultGreenTea rosamund is an icon periodt

@@ladymcgonagall use more words

Chris Sebastian can’t be more accurately put!

I’ll say she’s a legend she starred in the Harry Potter series as well as this

Golden Rose She was. Rosamund was the only one that ever paid any real attention to her. Season 1 Cora and Robert we so dismissive to her.

I felt that Rosamund had a similar experience in her past. She was so empathic and knew what to do and how to do it. But I´m glad that at least she wanted to help

@@MsXfactorfan1 not just in season 1. It was only until Robert found out about Marigold realised how much he failed her, and grew extreemly proud of her. But atleast he changed Cora was still making snide comments about Edith even in season 6..

@@GoldenRose116 Edith is a big fat loser. Always whining, self absorbed.

loveloses At first, I didn’t like Edith, but she has developed great.

I really would've loved it... But it's no longer possible, I very much regret to say. At least not with Maggie Smith.

Also, that was a common way of dealing with an out-of-wedlock baby if you had the means to go away. I had a great aunt who decided one day to up and move to Denver from California. She came back about a year later, and nobody really talked about it, which, like Violet, tells me about all I need to know.

My husband, who is a good deal older than I, told me that he wanted to make lots of money, so that he could leave me a rich widow after he passes. I asked, 'What's her name? Does she play Bridge?' He looked at me funny...

@@mssrus 😂😂

I don't remember that at any time they portrayed her as not wealthy. She would have had some money from her father, and her husband was rich, leaving her a very wealthy widow. Remember the guy that wanted to marry her for her money, but she caught him banging her maid?

Many English Titles =asset rich, cash poor.

Rosamund does have money, as a Lord deep in debt did try to marry her early on in the show, however most of her money is probably tied up in a way so she can't spend it all at once. She probably gets some type of monthly allowance from Robert along with whatever her husband left her. Cora's mother mentioned that her father also tied up their money so she can't give a large amount of it away to the Crawley's all she could do is increase Cora's dress allowance, she had an income but could not touch the capital as she put it (so can't sell off major assets for large amounts of cash). Women back then would not be entrusted with the entire fortune in one shot even if widowed.

she’s so stunning

She's a wimp.

It's called acting. She is sad and confused about this whole situation.

@@kcbh24 Sure. She started a romance with a man she loved, who she was going to marry, who got her pregnant but soon died leaving her with a bastard child. Sth that would ruin her completely. So she has no other option that to hide all of this from her family, bear the child in secret and give her up to some other family. Keep calling her a wimp.

@@kcbh24 not true as we know now

She was treated miserably by her family and the time that she lived in she would've been ruined- of course she's sad and about to cry

Oh...

I ADORE her side eye 🤣

She was very bad at showing it

Edith and Rosamund were both the forgotten child in their childhood.

Very good lol.

Maybe he's just busy? Messenger of the Gods, after all, perhaps he just uses Violet's house as a pit-stop?

Not till I read this post. Lol

Her stupid grin usually gives it away

You mean because society didn't accept illegitimate children?

@@susanfudge1737 yes. Like, the fact that Edith and her family just assumed it wasn’t even a possibility. So bleak. She clearly wanted her daughter and didn’t allow herself to keep her by any means necessary.

People forget that illegitimate children could appear on England's Bastardy records. Some US states used to rubber stamp illegitimate on birth certificates. Hence the subterfuge antics. in most cases, illegitimate children were often denied inheritance.

I don't think she means it. I think her underlying intention is that as her grandmother she has a greater responsibility than her aunt, who has already done a lot

I used to think so too.

Carey Mulligan

In an aristocratic family with an older son, the daughter was usually forgotten.

They thought it would be more interesting for her to live more through her nieces