Special copies of this book are exclusively available here, personally signed by the 8th Countess of Carnarvon. Her considerable dowry is now contractually incorporated into the committal entail in perpetuity; however, Robert and Cora have three daughters and no son.

Written in the 1970s, this book delves into the social and architectural history of the English Country House – who built them, how they were lived in, how the servants operated. This site has an archive of more than one thousand seven hundred interviews, or eight thousand book recommendations.

A film adaptation, a continuation of the series, was confirmed on 13 July 2018 and released in the United Kingdom on 13 September 2019, and in the United States on 20 September 2019. Wharton’s dazzling, devastating novel tells the story of the beautiful and vivacious Lily Bart, who is the toast of 1890s New York society. In episode one of the third series, covering 1920 to 1921, preparations are underway for Mary and Matthew's wedding. Robert (Lord Grantham) learns that the bulk of the family's fortune (including Cora's dowry) has been lost due to his impetuous investment in the Grand Trunk Railway.

The characters in Vita Sackville-West’s 1930 novel of pomp and romances are not interested in living honest lives.These events include news of the sinking of the Titanic (first series); the outbreak of the First World War, the Spanish influenza pandemic, and the Marconi scandal (second series); the Irish War of Independence leading to the formation of the Irish Free State (third series); the Teapot Dome scandal (fourth series); and the British general election of 1923 and the Beer Hall Putsch (fifth series).

As the eldest daughter, Lady Mary Crawley had agreed to marry her second cousin Patrick, the son of the then- heir presumptive James Crawley. Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is an important guide to the food served in the series, but Highclere owner, and author of Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle, Lady Carnarvon, states that dinner parties in the era "would have been even more over the top" than those shown. Downton Abbey is a British historical drama television series set in the early 20th century, created and co-written by Julian Fellowes. From the author of The Improbability of Love, House of Trelawney is a dazzling novel about an eccentric, dysfunctional family of English aristocrats, and their crumbling stately home that reminds us how the lives and hopes of women can still be shaped by the ties of family and love.Embittered, Mrs Bates mysteriously commits suicide with an arsenic pie after a visit by Bates, and he is arrested on suspicion of her murder. The old rectory in Bampton is used for exterior shots of Isobel Crawley's house, with interior scenes filmed at Hall Place near Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire. Throughout the centuries, Highclere has welcomed Royalty, Statesmen, Egyptologists and pioneers of technology along with men and women from the worlds of music, art and letters.