Downton Abbey: A New Era Risks Breaking The Dowager's Golden Rule
The premise of Downton Abbey: A New Era appears to force a break of Lady Violet, the Dowager Countess's (Maggie Smith) golden rule to keep her past a mystery. The entire cast of Downton Abbey returns for A New Era, and the new Downton Abbey movie trailer reveals two major events happen to the great house in Yorkshire, UK: a Hollywood film production wants to shoot at Downton, which brings movie stars and directors played by Laura Haddock, Dominic West, and Hugh Dancy to interact with Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) and Downton's servants. Meanwhile, Lady Violet learns that she has come in possession of a villa in the South of France, which means the Crawleys are journeying to the Continent to learn why the Dowager Countess received such a gift.
Lady Violet's past has always been one of the most intriguing aspects of Downton Abbey. When the series began, Lady Violet Crawley was already the «scary old lady» and Dowager Countess of Grantham. Her husband, Patrick, the 6th Earl of Grantham, was dead, and her son Robert (Hugh Bonneville) and his American wife Cora (Elizabeth McGovern) owned Downton Abbey. Lady Violet was irrepressible in her role as the keeper of the old Edwardian values which were rapidly disappearing as Downton Abbey entered the modern world. But the Dowager Countess also made sure her sharply-barbed bon mots deflected and concealed the many unknown details of her past. For example, Downton Abbey season 6 revealed an affair Lady Violet had with the Russian Prince Igor Kuragin (Rade Sherbedgia). It indicated that the Dowager Countess led an exciting and possibly even scandalous life in her youth, the details of which Lady Violet is not especially forthcoming about.
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