I love that bit when Mary got Anna that extra present. The look on her face was adorable! Their friendship was definitely one of the best parts of show!
@@aurorerich The usual Christmas Gift given to maids, was a piece of cloth. As in a stingily measured lenght of black fabric. For the maid to make herself a new frock, (uniform), for the coming year ! (All girls had to learn how to hand sow at an early age). Maids wore the same dress all week. Only the aprons were changed... Mary's proper gift was actually unheard of, at the time ! 💝
In many households the servants were given coloured fabric to make a Sunday best dress, as uniforms were part of their wages. As sewing machines were expensive most women could hand sew. Some were given extra gifts, not all were treated badly.
I don't think that old lady Grantham has much use for a nutcracker. One arch and disapproving look from her, and any disobedient nut would immediately crack itself, and be glad of the opportunity to get away so easily. 😂
I don't think that old lady Grantham has much use for a nutcracker. One arch and disapproving look from her, and any disobedient nut would immediately crack itself, and be glad of the opportunity to get away so easily. 😂
When Robert was thanking Tom, the Dowager Countess actually looked misty eyed. She ended up respecting Tom tremendously and was the one who recommended him to be the agent.
I love how Violet supposed to be the most traditionalist & yet sometimes was more open minded than her son (another example: when Robert said Ethel was a hooker but Violet stayed in Isobel's house). Emotional Violet is so good.
I loved the speech Robert gave about Tom. In the Season 2 Christmas special, he wasn’t enthusiastic about the fact that Tom was his son-in-law. The speech from the Season 5 Christmas special really shows how far they’ve come in their relationship.
@@nomdeplume2213 Calm down, breathe. I'll explain everything. Bates turned over a false confession to clear his wife's name for the murder of Mr. Green. Lord Gillian's valet who raped Anna in season 4. Because of that false confession Anna was released from prison and Bates was on the run from the law. (Honestly he just skipped town to hide out in Scotland/London) Anyway... Nobody knew where to find him. Anna feared he be arrested, tried/convicted and hanged because of his prior criminal record. His return signaled the dawn of a bright future. Or at least a Happy Christmas 🎄. In the end Anna was exonerated and the real murderer came forward in season 6.
@@Celtwoman1949 That was in Season 2, when Bates'first wife Vera committed suicide and he was tried and convicted for her death. It wasn't until about midway through Season 3 that he was set free.
Am I the only one who Absolutely LOVES Lady Edith's dress in the Season 5 Christmas 🎄 episode?!? I really appreciate how much her character (and wardrobe) evolved over the years.
Edith had her annoying moments till the very end but she's one of the best TV character developments. The war had the biggest effect in that, as Sybil mentioned.
Yes, Edith definitely became more stylish over the years. I love how Edith became more stylish as her confidence grew over the years. Mary's character didn't evolve much over the seasons. Edith and Tom became stronger and it was so nice to sew them grow in the role and keep their roles interesting year by year
Not gonna lie, I wanted a scene where the kids stepped out of line like talked back to Carson or Hughes, and their parents were like “don’t you dare talk that way to Carson or Hughes again! If you’ve done something to earn reprimand from them, then you’ll endure it!”
Many beautiful memories have been made with this show watching it with my mother year after year every Sunday night on Masterpiece. We could not wait for Sunday to arrive. All those nights of very special snacks we had with a bottle of wine watching the show was fabulous! . It was certainly the rage all those years and many of us learned so much about the real life of servants and their masters because of it. Now it’s All creatures great and small we watch.
There's a tenuous link between the two... Thirsk gets mentioned various times in Downton Abbey, which is where James Herriot (the pen name of Alf Wight) practiced as a vet, writing his diaries in the evenings. He renamed it Darrowby.
Karen MB Baxter you may be interested to know that comic relief did their own parody starring Jennifer Saunders and the late Victoria Wood which is here on RUclips and is really funny!
Them singing God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen is just so beautiful, a carol I know so well. This carol was already very old come the 1920s, as it was first heard around the late 1600s.
Thank you! This is one of the best shows EVER, and watching this today really fits in with my Christmas spirit!!! How lovely. Merry Christmas to you all! 💜🎄💜
Daisy. It’s evident how much Anna and Bates love 💗 each other. This Christmas episode is special for so many reasons; especially how the staff is respected and cared for by the Crawley’s!! ❤️🎅💚🎄
I am so glad that Mr. Bates came home! I have to watch Downton Abbey to hear Christmas songs sung properly. Traditions are fading/faded in America. It very sad.
I love the brief shot of Rose gently encouraging Atticus to sing carols. She knows he’s not familiar with a lot of the songs and traditions, but she still wants him to feel welcome.
I thought his expression after their encounter with that bitter Russian refugee exposed his prejudice, (after Rose exhibited her total lack of awareness of antisemitism) was perfect; amazement, relief, gratitude and hope.
I just loved it all from the castle the amazing grounds beautiful trees...just was a magical time and we even spoke to Fiona wonderful lady...so that made our day to ooh and the tasty cream tea 😘
It can be. All it takes is Love, Joy, Happiness, Family and Simplicity. While we wish to rewind the clock year after year, it's the Hope for a Better tomorrow and the memories of yesterday that fuel our today. It's a gift worth cherishing through every season. Merry Christmas 🎄❄️🎅🏾🕊️🧑🏾🎄💜🙏🏾
@@m.layfette6249thank you for the lovely words.. there"s a poem that could've been written for you, it goes like this.. "kindness is a language the blind can see and the deaf can hear." by Mark Twain. However may your new year be filled with health, wealth and happiness.
Ah...Dowager spoke French...about 5:11. Could Heckworth be the person from whom she inherited the villa in France? Rough translation, the snows of yesteryear
I wonder if Dan Stevens hadn't opted to leave when he did if Downton Abbey would still be going? I still believe it was the best TV we've ever had and it has been impossible to replace it.
I doubt it. Fellows seems like the type to bow out when needed. I doubt he would have continued it longer than the six seasons. The show was still massively popular on Netflix so I doubt ratings were much of a factor.
If he’d stayed the series would have played out very differently. Sybil wouldn’t have died, she and Tom would’ve most likely emigrated to America at the end of season 3 as that was always the planned final destination for their characters. Dan Steven’s deciding to also leave that year meant that they had to find a way for Tom to stay and take on the role of young male lead amongst the Crawley’s, but the actress who played Sybil was adamant she wanted to leave so the only way for that to happen and stay true to Tom’s character was for her to die. At any rate ending of a season 6 when it was still on a ratings high and viewers wanted more helped cement the series reputation. If you go back 20 years to the era of Dallas and Dynasty, which in many ways were the Downton of their time, both those shows made the huge mistake of running for too long. Certainly in Dallas case by the end virtually all the characters that made the series iconic had left and it was a pale shadow of its first 6/7 seasons when it was ratings phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic.
I admit I haven’t watched much of this series, nor do I know much about estate etiquette, but I am surprised to see the family giving gifts to the servants. Was that customary at the time?
Very much so. The masters and mistresses of a household weren't always horrid to their staff, they were often very gracious. Boxing day, sometimes thought to be where the name comes from, was a day when servants would be given a box from their masters and in it would be a small gift, though often related to their job. It is still customary among large households, it is certainly known that The Queen gives members of the Royal Household small gifts at Christmas.
Yes, it was common. And, female servants, whose uniforms and other garments, were NOT usually provided were given fabric with which they could make their own clothing(the male servants were usually provided with uniforms which were called liveries.)
@@i.wyvernortham oh giving a gift of material to the skivies then expecting them to pay for it to be made up is extremely cheap and horrid. If you’ve read many maids accounts in books it was a tradition seen very much as degrading as the mens uniforms and clothing were actually bought for them.
@@xr6lad Much of the women's basic uniform was provided for them. Men had to pay for their own personal clothing/anything they wore on their days off, but their uniform was rarely, if ever, new. It was necessary for maids to be skilled at sewing so they often made their clothes themselves to their tastes out of the clothing gifted by their mistress. The working classes couldn't afford to pay for clothing to be made up, rarely was it a thing back then to have pre-made clothing like we have now with high street shops and online too. People chose the fabric they wanted and either made the clothing themselves (lower classes) or chose the designs with a dressmaker (upper classes). Service was a hard life but a path which was respected, and the rewards they got like gifts at Christmas were extras, which was an improvement on the treatment of other lower class people back then.
I went to love with a well off family in my mid 20s. they had a huge tree in the sitting room, another in the dining room all blue to go with the wallpaper and curains and another in the kitchen. there was also one in the hallway. I didn;t come from such money so it surprised me. I wasn;t there to work. I was there to lodge and paid for staying there. I twas lovely and they all became my friends and I was Godmother to the eldest grandchild. Happy memories. the husband had had an ffair and left the lady of the house and, to fund his new lady and child he wanted her children to come out of private school and sell the family home. she got good legal advice and stayed put. To make ends meet for a while she took in lodgers and I was the first. I ended up there for 3.5 years. i ws a bit older than her chidlren who were older teenagers. It was a lot of fun.
Some dishes on this show, it seems, are straight from Mrs. Crocombe’s show from the English Heritage channel. This chocolate pudding and the kedgeree in the pilot! 😍😍
Once again, I must ask someone to translate the discreet French that the Dowager says at 5:08. She says it too quietly and too fast for me to pick up. Is Maggie Smith fluent in French, does anyone know?
@@oceanbreeze9248 there's also the time that she ran off to South of France after losing the hospital presidency until Tom summoned her about Mary being nasty to Edith after she broke up with Mr Talbot
There is talk of a 3rd Downton Abbey movie. It was leaked/hinted about earlier this year, but not a word since. Doubtless, Julian Fellowes is trying to keep the HBO Series, The Gilded Age afloat.
I love that bit when Mary got Anna that extra present. The look on her face was adorable! Their friendship was definitely one of the best parts of show!
I’m not a Mary fan, but I do like her and Anna’s friendship.
when Anna was raped by Mr. Green we got upset and would've not blamed Bates for pushing him off the train station"s plato, because my wife loved Anna
I like how she said "frock" and "thing" to make it sound like some trinket as to not embarass her.
@@aurorerich
The usual Christmas Gift given to maids, was a piece of cloth.
As in a stingily measured lenght of black fabric.
For the maid to make herself a new frock, (uniform), for the coming year !
(All girls had to learn how to hand sow at an early age).
Maids wore the same dress all week. Only the aprons were changed...
Mary's proper gift was actually unheard of, at the time ! 💝
In many households the servants were given coloured fabric to make a Sunday best dress, as uniforms were part of their wages. As sewing machines were expensive most women could hand sew. Some were given extra gifts, not all were treated badly.
My favorite line , " It's a Nutcracker , To crack your Nuts " lol... Those two are too much
I don't think that old lady Grantham has much use for a nutcracker.
One arch and disapproving look from her, and any disobedient nut would immediately crack itself, and be glad of the opportunity to get away so easily. 😂
Isobel & Violet were a platonic otp indeed
Isobel: "Its a ball-buster for when you want to eviscerate a man."
Isobel's nutcracker quip still makes me laugh years later. The look on her face is epic.
😆😆😅😅😅😅👏
I don't think that old lady Grantham has much use for a nutcracker.
One arch and disapproving look from her, and any disobedient nut would immediately crack itself, and be glad of the opportunity to get away so easily. 😂
It couldn't have been any funnier if she called it a "ball buster". So appropriate!
Omg, 4:18. Violet 😂
I love how the sound techs were able to grasp bits of each voice of the characters during the singing.
I bet they were overdubbed.
It's well done. I love these kind of scenes (in "chocolat" for example).
Very clever sound recording/overlay. It may have taken some work post production, but the skills involved should not be ignored.
When Robert was thanking Tom, the Dowager Countess actually looked misty eyed. She ended up respecting Tom tremendously and was the one who recommended him to be the agent.
Hi 👋 Kathy, can I talk to you for a moment?
@@patrickmckinley9937 Hi 👋 Patrick, can I talk to you for a moment?
I love how Violet supposed to be the most traditionalist & yet sometimes was more open minded than her son (another example: when Robert said Ethel was a hooker but Violet stayed in Isobel's house). Emotional Violet is so good.
@@rahaa.sh_307 - "Seems a pity to miss such a good pudding."
@@jpaxonreyes She was the definition of "iconic character"
I loved the speech Robert gave about Tom. In the Season 2 Christmas special, he wasn’t enthusiastic about the fact that Tom was his son-in-law. The speech from the Season 5 Christmas special really shows how far they’ve come in their relationship.
Bravo, Robert who actually loved Tom as a son in the end. .... PEACE to ALL.
Tom pretty much picked up where Sybil left off. :,) And I love how Mary and Edith immediately adopted him as their brother.
My eyes well with tears when Anna turns and realizes Bates is there. Hers is an expression of pure love and joy!
“Come all ye faithful” playing in the background, Bates walking in the shadows, that warm embrace with Anna… oh my weak, weak heart ❤️
Get a grip my friend, there's lots more to come! Best wishes of the season to you and yours.
My favorite Anna and Bates moment ever
They absolutely smashed after that door closed
Yes, but who closed the door??? 👻
I always cry, no matter how many times I see it
Love Anna and Mary’s friendship. Some of the most moving scenes were between them.
Hi 👋 Melissa, can I talk to you for a moment?
One of the very best parts of Downton Abbey is John Bates coming home for Christmas.
Happy Christmas Anna...
When Bates walked through that door, my heart just melted like snow ❄️ in the summer. ☀️ Add the look on Anna's face when she sees him. 😢💓
Why was he gone? I know the first time he was in jail but wtf happened after that? Lol im so confused
@@nomdeplume2213 Calm down, breathe. I'll explain everything. Bates turned over a false confession to clear his wife's name for the murder of Mr. Green. Lord Gillian's valet who raped Anna in season 4. Because of that false confession Anna was released from prison and Bates was on the run from the law. (Honestly he just skipped town to hide out in Scotland/London) Anyway... Nobody knew where to find him. Anna feared he be arrested, tried/convicted and hanged because of his prior criminal record. His return signaled the dawn of a bright future. Or at least a Happy Christmas 🎄. In the end Anna was exonerated and the real murderer came forward in season 6.
@@m.layfette6249 thanks for explaining. Who was the real murderer?
@@anujkalra6145 His wife took her own life but in such a way that he would get the blame
@@Celtwoman1949 That was in Season 2, when Bates'first wife Vera committed suicide and he was tried and convicted for her death. It wasn't until about midway through Season 3 that he was set free.
All of the Dowager lines were iconic. I love the way she looks at Sir Richard when he says 'Not my life' 😂
Am I the only one who Absolutely LOVES Lady Edith's dress in the Season 5 Christmas 🎄 episode?!? I really appreciate how much her character (and wardrobe) evolved over the years.
The world totally changed her, then she met a good man. This is the result she has a happy marriage.
My favorite outfits worn by Edith were when she went up to London to see her editor.
Edith had her annoying moments till the very end but she's one of the best TV character developments. The war had the biggest effect in that, as Sybil mentioned.
Yes, Edith definitely became more stylish over the years. I love how Edith became more stylish as her confidence grew over the years. Mary's character didn't evolve much over the seasons. Edith and Tom became stronger and it was so nice to sew them grow in the role and keep their roles interesting year by year
@@cindyhoffman5547 *"sew?"*
I can't help but see Carson and Hughes as Downtons mom and dad🥰
Its tradition that headman and headwoman are considered the king n queen of household.
Not gonna lie, I wanted a scene where the kids stepped out of line like talked back to Carson or Hughes, and their parents were like “don’t you dare talk that way to Carson or Hughes again! If you’ve done something to earn reprimand from them, then you’ll endure it!”
Nice detail of Rose teaching Angus the words of the carol 😍
that's Atticus. Angus is a scottishnmewith which Susan would be familiar. That dreadful character would soon find worse venom to share.
The show will always be a legend the top shows to ever exist
I love when Mr Bates surprises Anna at the end! Aww!
The Downton Christmas tree is beautiful. Merry Christmas to all.
It’s a fine balsam it really shows the majesty of the great night Happy Christmas to all
Many beautiful memories have been made with this show watching it with my mother year after year every Sunday night on Masterpiece. We could not wait for Sunday to arrive. All those nights of very special snacks we had with a bottle of wine watching the show was fabulous! . It was certainly the rage all those years and many of us learned so much about the real life of servants and their masters because of it. Now it’s All creatures great and small we watch.
There's a tenuous link between the two... Thirsk gets mentioned various times in Downton Abbey, which is where James Herriot (the pen name of Alf Wight) practiced as a vet, writing his diaries in the evenings. He renamed it Darrowby.
@@MarloFanThat’s interesting, thank you !
Anna and Mds Hughes' relationship has grown so much, especially in season 4 onwards. Shes so supportive ❤
7:40 When Cora held Edith’s hand 🥺 it’s so sweet that it made me tear up
I'm not a huge Bates fan, but I LOVE watching him return to Anna all the same. That was a LOVELY moment!
I love the Downton parodies where in the kitchen the cooks are just throwing flour everywhere.
Karen MB Baxter you may be interested to know that comic relief did their own parody starring Jennifer Saunders and the late Victoria Wood which is here on RUclips and is really funny!
“Which I can easily believe” , I love her lines!
The Christmas episode is one of the best episodes..
Best show ever made… when Bates comes in and looks at Anna… Just beautiful 😍
Can’t get enough of Downtown! This was just lovely! Thank you.
Hi 👋 Maria, can I talk to you for a moment?
Them singing God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen is just so beautiful, a carol I know so well. This carol was already very old come the 1920s, as it was first heard around the late 1600s.
5:42 best line ever, rarely mentioned when rounding up her greatest hits
"Which I can easily believe...." So subtle and so loaded at the same time.
Posting the last scene from Season 5 is perhaps your Christmas gift for us.
Their hearts will always snag on the rusty hook of Sybil's loss. It was gut wrenching.
Blessings of the Christmas season to all.....
I wish the episodes never ended, best so far
Thank you! This is one of the best shows EVER, and watching this today really fits in with my Christmas spirit!!! How lovely. Merry Christmas to you all! 💜🎄💜
Merry Christmas to you too and lets hope for a healthy 2022 for us all.
Merry Christmas! 🎄
Daisy. It’s evident how much Anna and Bates love 💗 each other. This Christmas episode is special for so many reasons; especially how the staff is respected and cared for by the Crawley’s!!
❤️🎅💚🎄
This was good to watch. Really brings the Christmas spirit
I am so glad that Mr. Bates came home! I have to watch Downton Abbey to hear Christmas songs sung properly. Traditions are fading/faded in America. It very sad.
I am in the midwest and I agree.
A very happy Christmas to all
Happy Christmas to you too!
I love the brief shot of Rose gently encouraging Atticus to sing carols. She knows he’s not familiar with a lot of the songs and traditions, but she still wants him to feel welcome.
I thought his expression after their encounter with that bitter Russian refugee exposed his prejudice, (after Rose exhibited her total lack of awareness of antisemitism) was perfect; amazement, relief, gratitude and hope.
Ah, you finally have this episode where they sing God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen!
I believe Anna was Mary's best friend as Mary Anna's. Those two women needed each other and always pulled through when needed.
I have just visted the beautiful Downtown or Highclere amazing I can see the beautiful rooms and imagine how life really was lovely experience 💙
Well I'm incredibly jealous. But how exciting for you!! I can't wait to plan a trip! What did you like best?
I just loved it all from the castle the amazing grounds beautiful trees...just was a magical time and we even spoke to Fiona wonderful lady...so that made our day to ooh and the tasty cream tea 😘
@@deborahtsagaropoulou1501 oh I can just imagine!! Thank you for sharing your wonderful experience!
@@deborahtsagaropoulou1501 🙂
I really miss this series.
🙂
It's a testament to Penelope's acting skill: She was so wonderful in Downton and so detestable in Marigold Hotel.
Robert's voice quivered in the speech.....💔❤
It was good to see the part with Matthew and them talking about Sybil. But the best part of the Bates.
“I don’t like dissension”.
That line always makes me laugh.
It is too bad that the Dowager didn't realize that there was no dissension in her household until Denker arrived. At least she figured it out later.
😆😆😆😆👏
She doesn't like dissension...unless she is the author of it, lol.
@@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER Oh, you've met my MIL?
@@AlbertaRose94 MIL = mother-in-law?? 😂
I love Anna & Mr. Bates! They were my favorites throughout.
Best show ever. I long for those days
Okay. I feel like Violet called a bull-buster with the gift of the nut cracker. Not sure they meant it, but either way it's hilarious.
This show is so magical
I miss this show. It’s been awhile… be nice if in a year or two another 2 hour special be done on 5 yrs foreword.
I wish life could be like that.
It can be. All it takes is Love, Joy, Happiness, Family and Simplicity. While we wish to rewind the clock year after year, it's the Hope for a Better tomorrow and the memories of yesterday that fuel our today. It's a gift worth cherishing through every season. Merry Christmas 🎄❄️🎅🏾🕊️🧑🏾🎄💜🙏🏾
@@m.layfette6249thank you for the lovely words.. there"s a poem that could've been written for you, it goes like this.. "kindness is a language the blind can see and the deaf can hear." by Mark Twain. However may your new year be filled with health, wealth and happiness.
@@4dbak May your days be Merry and Bright!! 🕊️💜🎄❄️🎅🏾
I appreciate the bass harmony at 1:58
I love the Downton Christmas!
Ah...Dowager spoke French...about 5:11. Could Heckworth be the person from whom she inherited the villa in France? Rough translation, the snows of yesteryear
I wonder if Dan Stevens hadn't opted to leave when he did if Downton Abbey would still be going? I still believe it was the best TV we've ever had and it has been impossible to replace it.
I doubt it. Fellows seems like the type to bow out when needed. I doubt he would have continued it longer than the six seasons. The show was still massively popular on Netflix so I doubt ratings were much of a factor.
If he’d stayed the series would have played out very differently. Sybil wouldn’t have died, she and Tom would’ve most likely emigrated to America at the end of season 3 as that was always the planned final destination for their characters. Dan Steven’s deciding to also leave that year meant that they had to find a way for Tom to stay and take on the role of young male lead amongst the Crawley’s, but the actress who played Sybil was adamant she wanted to leave so the only way for that to happen and stay true to Tom’s character was for her to die. At any rate ending of a season 6 when it was still on a ratings high and viewers wanted more helped cement the series reputation. If you go back 20 years to the era of Dallas and Dynasty, which in many ways were the Downton of their time, both those shows made the huge mistake of running for too long. Certainly in Dallas case by the end virtually all the characters that made the series iconic had left and it was a pale shadow of its first 6/7 seasons when it was ratings phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic.
I wish they had kept the movie for this time of the year. :( just 3 more months to go.
The second movie comes out on my birthday. I can't think of a better gift.
@@BeautyDiva100 Can you tell me when the release date for the movie is?
@@jnb3665 18th March 2022
Happy & Merry Christmas.
_“perhaps he’s had enough banging for one life”_
_“this isn’t charades, this is the game”_
….💀💀💀💀💀💀💀i’m on the floor
At the end the whole family loved Tom .
I just finished watching this series and it was wonderful!!
Sybbie looks like her beautiful mother🥰
I love this collection so much! It's a shame an breaks in the middle of a scene.
J’adore 😊 merci aux acteurs
O melhor seriado de todos os tempos!!!
I admit I haven’t watched much of this series, nor do I know much about estate etiquette, but I am surprised to see the family giving gifts to the servants. Was that customary at the time?
Yes. It's still a custom to this day. The queen gives gifts to her household staff
Very much so. The masters and mistresses of a household weren't always horrid to their staff, they were often very gracious. Boxing day, sometimes thought to be where the name comes from, was a day when servants would be given a box from their masters and in it would be a small gift, though often related to their job. It is still customary among large households, it is certainly known that The Queen gives members of the Royal Household small gifts at Christmas.
Yes, it was common. And, female servants, whose uniforms and other garments, were NOT usually provided were given fabric with which they could make their own clothing(the male servants were usually provided with uniforms which were called liveries.)
@@i.wyvernortham oh giving a gift of material to the skivies then expecting them to pay for it to be made up is extremely cheap and horrid. If you’ve read many maids accounts in books it was a tradition seen very much as degrading as the mens uniforms and clothing were actually bought for them.
@@xr6lad Much of the women's basic uniform was provided for them. Men had to pay for their own personal clothing/anything they wore on their days off, but their uniform was rarely, if ever, new. It was necessary for maids to be skilled at sewing so they often made their clothes themselves to their tastes out of the clothing gifted by their mistress. The working classes couldn't afford to pay for clothing to be made up, rarely was it a thing back then to have pre-made clothing like we have now with high street shops and online too. People chose the fabric they wanted and either made the clothing themselves (lower classes) or chose the designs with a dressmaker (upper classes). Service was a hard life but a path which was respected, and the rewards they got like gifts at Christmas were extras, which was an improvement on the treatment of other lower class people back then.
Reminds me of Christmas at the Biltmore Estate! Four, or more! -story tree in the dining hall! A tree in every room! I was so emotional.
I went to love with a well off family in my mid 20s. they had a huge tree in the sitting room, another in the dining room all blue to go with the wallpaper and curains and another in the kitchen. there was also one in the hallway. I didn;t come from such money so it surprised me. I wasn;t there to work. I was there to lodge and paid for staying there. I twas lovely and they all became my friends and I was Godmother to the eldest grandchild. Happy memories. the husband had had an ffair and left the lady of the house and, to fund his new lady and child he wanted her children to come out of private school and sell the family home. she got good legal advice and stayed put. To make ends meet for a while she took in lodgers and I was the first. I ended up there for 3.5 years. i ws a bit older than her chidlren who were older teenagers. It was a lot of fun.
Happy Christmas, Mr.&Mrs.Bates
Love Anna and Bates!!❤️💞😭😭😭
It’s funny how Tom went from that wee angry Irish accent to one of an English Lord 😂😂😂
Какие замечательные актеры! Фильм прекрасный,смотрела уже четыре раза! Продолжения хотелось бы!
Questa serie mi conquista ogni volta che la guardo
Vorrei solo ci fosse la traduzione in italiano
PBS could do a yearly Christmas 🎄 episode. We would ALL love it. Miss it being on weekly.
Mr. Carson has a lovely rich bass singing voice.
Some dishes on this show, it seems, are straight from Mrs. Crocombe’s show from the English Heritage channel. This chocolate pudding and the kedgeree in the pilot! 😍😍
Oye sir Richard was the complete opposite of sir Jorah lol I could stand him
The best série of the word
*series*
More of these plzz kind sir / madam
Mr spratt and miss denker is always makes me laugh..
Happy Christmas to all
Maravilha de seriado!!! Amei!!!
Great Downton Abbey
I love this💕
I'm surprised Matthew's proposal to Mary wasn't included.
I love cousin Isabelle and the Dowager lol
Robert: HAVE A DRINK
Also Robert: Im drunk and I dont care - I LOVE IT
Oh I love this show 😍😂😍
Bates was the perfect man. He was good, but he could be bad when he needed to.
Anna was safe with him.
5:29 "This isn't charades this is the game". 🤣😂
Once again, I must ask someone to translate the discreet French that the Dowager says at 5:08. She says it too quietly and too fast for me to pick up.
Is Maggie Smith fluent in French, does anyone know?
"mais où sont les neiges d'antan?". Where is the snow of yesteryear? its from a poem by François Villon, expressing regret for times past.
She may be...it could be one of those things like peeling the layers of an onion. She pronounced it beautifully.
I knew I could count on my RUclips army of Downton fans. Merci beaucoup! 😁👍😘
Could be a hint about the new movie... it's set in France anyway 🤔
@@oceanbreeze9248 there's also the time that she ran off to South of France after losing the hospital presidency until Tom summoned her about Mary being nasty to Edith after she broke up with Mr Talbot
On l'a déjà vu cette épisode,,,,car dans les nouveaux les domestiques aussi sont plus modernes,,,,👍👍👍👍👍👍👋👋🇫🇷
Be still my Heart~
You make me cry every time, specially now, some people want to erase our beautiful Christmas, I am in tears.
Who wants "to erase our beautiful Christmas"?
Thank - you . ... (also some St. John's Newfoundland knew this living ...).( upstairs/downstairs ).
I love ir Downton Abbey
最高傑作ドラマです
大好きで一話からずっと録画して何度も見てました!素晴らしい家族 使用人も含めてすべてが家族ですね
髪型 ファッション
立ち振舞トムが好き好きです!
女の人が近寄ってくるとドキドキ💗しました
シルビアを何時も思ってます!
Silvia?
Do any of you know the title of the Christmas carol that is sung at timecode 7:40?
O Come All Ye Faithful.
Adorei a série
Es adorable está serie ojalá hicieran más
There is talk of a 3rd Downton Abbey movie. It was leaked/hinted about earlier this year, but not a word since. Doubtless, Julian Fellowes is trying to keep the HBO Series, The Gilded Age afloat.