Das England im Jahre 1924 birgt jede Menge neue Herausforderungen für Familie Crawley und ihre Angestellten: Eine neue Labour-Regierung kündigt Veränderungen an, die im ganzen Land zu spüren sind und auch das Leben in Downton nicht unberührt lassen. Robert, Mary und
Branson versuchen verzweifelt, das Anwesen für die kommenden Generationen zu sichern. Branson, dessen Rolle auf Downton zunehmend wichtiger wird, fängt an, seine Existenz in Frage zu stellen, und Mary muss sich eingestehen, dass sie gerne wieder heiraten würde. Edith droht ohne
ein Lebenszeichen ihres geliebten Gregson unter der Last ihres schrecklichen Geheimnisses zu zerbrechen.
Über den Autor Julian Fellowes
Educated at Ampleforth and Magdalene College, Cambridge, Julian Fellowes is a multi-award-winning actor, writer, director and producer.
As creator, sole writer and executive producer of the hit television series DOWNTON ABBEY, Fellowes has won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe. He received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for GOSFORD PARK (2002). His work was also honoured by the Writers Guild of America, the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics for Best Screenplay.
Other writing credits for film include Piccadilly Jim (2004), Vanity Fair (2004), Young Victoria (2009), The Tourist (2010), Romeo & Juliet (2013) and Downton Abbey (2019), the four-part drama Titanic (2012), the three-part drama Doctor Thorne (2016), both for ITV, and the television adaptation of his own novel, BELGRAVIA (2020). He also wrote and directed the award-winning films Separate Lies and From Time to Time. Fellowes wrote the books for the Tony-nominated stage production of Mary Poppins, which opened in 2004; and for Half a Sixpence and School of Rock: The Musical¿ which both opened in London's West End in November 2016.
Fellowes has authored three novels: the international bestsellers SNOBS (2005), PAST IMPERFECT (2008) and BELGRAVIA (2016), which was first published in serial form as a groundbreaking app.
Julian Fellowes became a life peer in 2011. He lives in Dorset and London with his wife, Emma.