Downton is my home

♥ Come war and peace... Downton still stands and the Crawley are still in it! ♥ Victoria ~ 26 ~ Prague

[wardrobeoftime]

Downton Abbey + Costumes

Lady Rose MacClare's pink & silver dress in Season 05, Episode 08.

// requested by anonymous

[dearemma]

LILY JAMES Downton Abbey

[gifshistorical]

BATES FAMILY · Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022)

[wardrobeoftime]

Downton Abbey + Costumes

Lady Mary Talbot's red & white dress in Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale.

[moonsiris]

Favourite Fictional Characters + tropes

→ Lady Mary Crawley

[fitzbean]

Why did no one tell me about Downton Abbey?? I love that there can be an episode where everyone almost gets poisoned or a man dies during a clandestine liaison, but that’s actually the D plot.

The A-plot is two British ladies in fancy hats trying to out passive aggressive each other.

[emcgoverns]

elizabeth mcgovern, photoshoot (june 2025) | 📸: david levene

[strawberrythiefs]

EDITH & MARY | DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE

[doctor-donnas]

I'll take a taxi. If I can find one that will carry a divorced woman.

requested by @byeletty

[byeletty]

Okay okay okay so I requested this incredibly small moment because I want to talk about Michelle being So Good At Her Job (shocking I know).

Mary is not one to show cracks or stress easily, she *always* has to keep it together but here! here you can see the tiny ways that stress is manifesting. She can't quite get her fingers to work to clasp her coat and you can see the wheels turning of "the reporters are out there and they're going to know I left before the prince and princess and this is so humiliating but I have to face it so here we go." (echos of "a storm braver if ever I saw one" bouncing around in there maybe??) and that final beat of her like Taking A Breath and steeling herself is fucking MAGIC to watch. She is saying SO MUCH while saying nothing at all.

I've read so many comments about Michelle being wooden or boring to watch and every time I read them I roll my eyes because people are just wrong BUT ALSO they're simply not paying attention. But I am! I'm paying attention and I'm constantly in awe.

[ohtobealady]

No one asked me to, but HERE I GO.

I love this little scene as well, and I echo every word @byeletty says above. (Also crazy that people wouldn’t like MD’s performance. I love her.)

I just want to add that I appreciate the clever framing of having Cora standing in the background here. We’ve got some S1 parallels happening, but in a way that shows growth for Mary’s character.

I also love the ways that (at least to me) Mary and Cora act so similar when emotions run high.

They suppress: Mary can’t clasp her cape here; Cora can’t easily slip on her glove after Robert’s ulcer burst.

They minimize: Mary somewhat flippantly says “if I can find [a taxi] that will carry a divorced woman” in this scene; Cora says “golly what a night!” after the Bricker fight.

They go to anger instead of facing more complex feelings: Mary with Edith a lot lol … Cora with Violet after Robert’s ulcer burst “there’s been too many secrets.” (On this note, I actually think Mary and Edith are much closer than Mary + Sybil and Edith + Sybil throughout the whole series…but that’s for another time.)

I don’t know if JFellz has done this on purpose or if he writes women in one sort of way (lol), but I often find that Cora and Mary far more similar people than people immediately think.

@randomabiling obligatory tag bc she’s more eloquent than I am regarding this.

[byeletty]

Thank you for pointing out these parallels @ohtobealady I *love* a spot of Downton character analysis! (please read I'd join you in that Crawley sister closeness discussion any time!)

The season one to Grand Finale growth moment I wanted to mention is coming from Cora calling Mary damaged goods to her saying she won't go anywhere Mary isn't welcome. Going from disparaging her daughter for the Pamuk scandal to wholeheartedly supporting her and standing behind her in the divorce scandal is Important to Me! The Cora/Mary relationship is such an interesting and complex one and I think part of the reason they butt heads when they do is because of how similar they are!

[neroushalvaus]

Downton Abbey 4: The Last Goodbye

Downton Abbey 5: The End

Downton Abbey 6: One Last Time

Downton Abbey 7: For Old Time's Sake

Downton Abbey 8: This Is The Last One Prommy

Downton Abbey 9: The Grand Finale (For Realsies This Time)

Downton Abbey 10: It's A Nice Round Number So We're Really Stopping Now Okay

Downton Abbey 11: Promise You Won't Be Mad

[not-mary-sue]

2 Downton 2 Abbey

[da-scenes]

From Arty Froushan's IG.

[strawberrythiefs]

Saying goodbye. Final day of filming 😭 (📸: Harry Hadden-Paton)

[duallpa]

DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE (2025)

[eloiscbridgerton]

Can you manage without your stick? You are my stick. DOWNTON ABBEY 2.08

[autumncozy]

By Małgorzata Szuba

[myrnadalgleish]

mary's story starting with her being told that she can't inherit the house and she needs to get married quick and move away and ending with her living alone in the house with her kids <3

[gordo--livingstone]

just started rewatching downton and i can't stop thinking about the profound loneliness of the end of the grand finale. it happens so gradually over the course of the series that you almost don't notice it; sure, there are fewer unnamed servants in the background, and we lose the whole genus footman, but it happens so slowly. upstairs, edith gets married and leaves and tom starts his new life, but that's the natural order of things. the deaths of sybil and matthew and violet are devastating, but there's sybbie and george and rose, so the show is focused more on the absence of sybil and matthew and violet themselves rather than the concept of loss.

but when the series begins, the house is alive. there is constant motion, constant noise, people constantly coming and going. there are servants whose names we never know, but who are always in and out of the frame, working in the kitchen and going up and down the stairs. upstairs, the family is whole and intact; the house is a home, where people live. there's the revolving door of suitors and parties and distant relations who come and go.

and that shot of mary at the end of the grand finale, standing alone under the portrait of violet, literally surrounded by ghosts, is so deeply sad. not just because we, the audience, are sad that the franchise is over and that sybil and matthew and violet are dead, but because the house no longer feels alive. it's now just one sad woman, her voiceless children, and a few servants left. it's a shadow of what it was. it's tragic and haunting. the estate is intact, and mary has inherited all, and the original problem they had been trying to solve since 1912 is happily resolved. but what's the point? what is the point of the estate being intact and owned by the crawleys if it's lifeless and empty? what is the point of downton if it is no longer a pillar of the community, offering employment and benefits for the village? what is the point of protecting downton for the future when it is so obvious it is a relic of the past?