Downton Abbey: A New Era - What Is The Dowager Countess' Secret?
The latest trailer for Downton Abbey: A New Era reveals more hints that Maggie Smith's Dowager Countess, Lady Grantham is hiding more secrets about her past that will be revealed by the movie's new characters. Despite her seemingly fatal diagnosis at the end of the first Downton Abbey movie, Smith's fan-favorite character is back, offering the usual snark and pithy putdowns, but at the heart of a story that threatens to reveal potentially sordid details of her past. But what exactly could that secret be?
The Dowager Countess' past has already thrown up some ghosts after it was revealed that she had a torrid affair with a Russian prince (Rade Serbedzija). Ultimately, her Doctor Zhivago-like tryst with Prince Kuragin ended in heartbreak and her return to duty and her family, but the revelation changed the perception of her. For someone so seemingly concerned with the proper way of things, a scandal in her own past was quite eye-opening. For the second Downton Abbey movie to tease further ghosts being scared up from her past as the Granthams take a trip to France seems positively outrageous.
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So far, the Downton Abbey: A New Era trailers have hinted quite openly that the Dowager Countess inherited her new French villa from a former lover, without stating it outright. The second trailer even introduces a new character in France, who Robert (Hugh Bonneville) appears to be insisting reveal what the bigger secret of his mother's past is. Putting together all of the pieces, and Smith's line about women like her either being «dragons or fools», it feels like the trailers are setting up another romantic revelation. But it's a complex one to pick apart. This time, it's very
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