The new trailer for DowntonAbbey: A New Era reveals that Maggie Smith's Dowager Countess is alive, missing the perfect, albeit tragic, opportunity to explore her death. A New Era welcomes many returning characters back, but none are more surprising than Lady Violet, the Dowager Countess of Grantham.
Her appearance in the trailer doesn't quite align with her heartbreaking announcement at the end of the 2019 film Downton Abbey, which, if followed through, would have likely made for a more
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