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Mar 16, 2022 · For a quick refresh, in Season 1, episode 3, Kemal Pamuk (Theo James) and Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) enjoyed a fleeting steamy romance, which ended when the pair got into bed together and...
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Apr 21, 2022 · Goode played Henry Talbot on Seasons 5 and 6 of “Downton Abbey” and in the 2019 movie, but Lady Mary’s husband is noticeably missing from the trailer for “A New Era.”
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"You'll be my Mary always because mine is the true Mary."
—Mary's first husband, Matthew Crawley, to her
Lady Mary Josephine Talbot (née Crawley; b. 1891), known mostly as Lady Mary for most of Downton Abbey, is the eldest daughter of Robert the Earl of Grantham and Cora Crawley, the Countess of Grantham she is the sister of Lady Edith Pelham and the late Lady Sybil Branson, granddaughter of Violet Crawley, sister-in-law of Tom Branson and Herbert (Bertie) Pelham, and the aunt to her nieces, Sybbie Branson and Edith's daughter, Marigold (last name undetermined). She was married to Matthew Crawley and with him had a son, George Crawley, in 1921. Shortly after their son's birth, Matthew was killed in a car accident. Mary married Henry Talbot in 1925, and they have a daughter, Caroline Talbot, in 1926.
Her father's sister Lady Rosamund Painswick and her deceased husband Marmaduke Painswick are Mary's aunt and uncle. She also has an uncle on her mother's side, Harold Levinson. She is second cousins with Lady Rose Aldridge, along with her sisters Lady Annabelle and James MacClare, Earl of Newtonmore. She has a second cousin-in-law in Rose's husband Atticus Aldridge, and their daughter Victoria Aldridge is her second cousin-once-removed. Rose's mother, the Marchioness of Flintshire, is her father's first cousin.
Mary is elegant. She is slender and tall with thin wrists and long fingers. She is sought after by many men throughout the series. She has raven black waves and dark eyes, accompanied by perfectly arched brows, black lashes, high cheekbones and clear porcelain skin. She originally had long hair which was pinned up during the initial four and a half...
Early on Mary is shown to be cold, bitter, opaque, and quite mean in the beginning, but her romance with Matthew brings her kindness and vulnerability to light. She is a caring lady and takes Matthew's death to heart, remaining in mourning for more than six months after his death. Mary proves to be an extremely loyal employer to Anna and Mr Bates, and is also extremely loyal to her family and friends. She is also very fond to Mr Carson, who Mary sees as a surrogate father. Carson is also one of the few people she opens up and shows a more emotional and vulnerable side. According to Carson, when Mary was a child she "was a guinea a minute then", trying once to run away and take some of the silver to sell.
Despite the constant rivalry between herself and her sister Edith, they shared an embrace and kind words at the death of their younger sister Sybil. Contrary to her relationship with Edith, Mary loved her youngest sister dearly and was very protective of her. Later on, after the tragic death of Matthew, she begins to return, in some ways, to her old self. Her relationship with Edith deteriorates yet again. However, later on, after Mary finds out the truth about Marigold and tells Bertie, Mary eventually regrets her actions, makes peace with Edith, and tries to have a better relationship with her, going as far as to apologise to Edith and reconcile Edith and Bertie.
However, Mary does show herself to be very open-minded and progressive at times, befriending her brother-in-law Tom Branson, the family's former chauffeur. She supports him in his decision to raise his daughter as a Catholic, showing she bears none of the anti-Catholic prejudices that were common in her time. She also is very supportive of her cousin Rose's decision to marry a Jewish man, Atticus Aldridge, at a time when, due to anti-semitism, many people might frown on such a match (however, this might also be due to her own Jewish ancestry, her maternal grandfather having been Jewish).
Upon learning that Matthew named her as his heir shortly before his death, Mary resolves to take an active role in the running of the Downton Estate. In doing so, she works to continue the process of modernization that Matthew had begun, often at odds with her father's more conservative and pragmatic approach. While not overtly feminist, Mary begins to take on traditionally masculine duties such as acting as the estate's agent, meeting with tenant farmers, and concerning herself with business decisions. Understanding the postwar reality that estates such as Downton are in peril, her drive and motivation for much of the later series is ensuring that the Estate remains whole for her son.
•In the 1500s, there was a Mary Talbot (a daughter of George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury) who was married to Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, who had formerly been engaged to Anne Boleyn, prior to her marriage to Henry VIII. This particular Mary Talbot is a distant relative of Mary Crawley's husband, who's Aunt confirms he is a "Shrewsbu...
"I can scramble eggs, but that's about it!"
—to Charles Blake
"You behaved like an idiot!"
—to Edith Crawley
Mary: "I admire you, Bertie, not everyone would accept Edith's past. Well, surely you must have told him. You couldn't have accepted without telling him."
Bertie: "Tell me what?"
1.Daily Mail UK - 12 years on and the Lady hasn't aged a bit: Downton viewers question whether the characters have become convincingly old enough in the time since first episode was set By Sam Creighton and Christopher Stevens; Published: 18:19 EST, 21 September 2014; Updated: 07:20 EST, 22 September 2014
2.Series 2 Episode 5: Middle name mentioned as part of announcement of engagement to Sir Richard Carlisle.
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May 26, 2022 · Lady Mary Crawley has proven to not be a run-off-the-mill, post-Edwardian heroine, with the movie continuing to convey her steadfast persona. From the very first episode, she came across as a decisive, no-nonsense, and liberated young woman who refused to unquestioningly go about her social duties.
May 20, 2022 · Lady Violet died peacefully and was surrounded by her loved ones at the end of Downton Abbey: A New Era. In 2019's Downton Abbey movie, the Dowager Countess told Mary that she was deathly ill, but the grand dame fought on into the sequel, which is set about a year or two after.
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Jan 27, 2024 · The show opens with Lady Mary and her family facing a tragedy that also opens up her world: Her two cousins, one of whom she planned to marry to ensure her family’s financial future, have died....
Jun 4, 2022 · Lady Mary Is Now The Lady Of Downton As was acknowledged by Violet Crawley, as well as Robert, the 7th earl of Grantham (Hugh Bonneville), Lady Mary Talbot (Michelle Dockery) is now the...
