Stop winding all the clocks, Downtonians. This marks a distinct shift in a programme in which various threats (cancer, financial ruin, stained dinner jackets) lurked in dusty corners for about half an episode before being quickly swept away like Carson doing the spring cleaning.
(As all Downtonians know, this, too, turns out to be felicitous when after much travail, cousin Matthew and Lady Mary happily wed at the beginning of season three.)
From coast to coast, "Downtonians" will be at the edge of their chesterfields, keen to see what's next for the Crawleys in 1920 after the unexpected deaths of two beloved young members of the patrician family.
For all Downtonians, perk your ears up: Elizabeth McGovern (Lady Cora) will be losing her corset this February in favour of leathers and a mic stand to play her husky, country-esque vocals with her band Sadie and the Hotheads.
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But it was the fifth earl, George Herbert, who lent Highclere an air of "Downtonian" drama, marrying a Rothschild heiress to ensure the estate's survival and in 1922 fund the expedition that unearthed Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb.