Downton Abbey musings

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I've been sick this week and have used to time to binge re-watch Downton Abbey. It's soooo good, I love it,
Anyway. It occured to me. With all the fuss about Matthew becoming the Heir etc. In an alternative universe, When Lord Grantham has a grandson , (whichever daughter is his mother) wouldn't that child become the heir and out rank Matthew.

I know in the end Matthew and Mary produced the first grandson but if Sybil and Tom's daughter had been a boy would that child have become the Heir????
Thoughts anyone

I'm not a Carson fan. He was so shitty to Ethel when she got knocked up and then when Barrow was struggling to find a job in the final series. Totally contradicted what Thomas had said episodes earlier about Carson being a fair man. He seemed to save his humanity and understanding for above stairs and of course,' the blessed lady Mary's.