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One other thing - The actor who plays Barrow must have lost a huge amount of weight or had a complete face makeover - I did not recognize him until he spoke.

 

GO BACK when it's not baby day! I want to go again anyway!!

Dang, now I'm trying to remember who Tolbert is. I will definitely watch the series in the set and I'll be back on this thread in a few months!

oK, AFTER A quick google search, I barely know who Tolbert is. He must have been popular in the last season. Did he marry Lady Mary?

 

Yes! They had a lovely wedding. The whole village turned out!

 

I want to know how they got the French chef & the Page of the Back Stairs, was it?, down to sit around the breakfast table the next day. I want to know how the Marquess relates to Marigold.

 

The Marquis (is that how it's spelled?) is Lady Edith Crawley's husband Bertie. Marigold was Edith's illegitimate daughter by her lover the magazine guy who was murdered in Germany by Fascists.

 

A comment on suspension of disbelief, this is a movie, not a history lesson or a study of human behavior. I would think suspension of disbelief is a given whenever going to the movies

 

Loved it, didn’t want it to end and bet that the next one starts with a funeral and ends with a wedding.

 

You may very well be right, Reader. and

 

In France it's marquis. I wondered about that & watched the credits to check; it's marquess in English. But I always loved 'marchioness' as the feminine form, & Edith is now the Marchioness of ____ Hexham? Too lazy to look it up. Her husband outranks her father & of course they had expected Mary to make the best marriage of the three. Edith was stood up at the altar once, then her lover, Marigold's father, was murdered in Germany, there for something about getting a divorce from an insane or demented wife. When she told Bertie's mother the truth about Marigold, it looked like that was going to be the end of that too, but... Lady Bagshaw had something of the same situation, keeping her daughter with her in the guise of her lady's maid. Love the name of the actress who played the daughter & Tom's developing love interest: Tuppence. [Tom, family's Irish chauffeur who ran off with youngest daughter, the late Lady Sibyl, & father of the oldest of the children]

 

I started out spelling it Marques (with only 1 s) and yes, you've got Edith's history right (poor thing, no wonder she was so nasty in the beginning.) Bertie (now the Marquess, but not expected to inherit the title from his cousin when he was first introduced to the series at a shooting party in Scotland) is what he's called in the family, so maybe Albert officially?

 

I finally had a chance to go see the movie this afternoon.

It was, as everyone had said, just wonderful & I did enjoy it thoroughly.

The only thing I can say about it is, & I don't mean this in any way to be negative, Julian Fellows really does like everything to complete with no loose ends.

If it does well I can see them making another in the future if they can work out the logistics of everyone's schedule.