Downton Abbey Discussion continued...

[ErikNorseman]

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They got married at Downton between the end of series 2 and before the Christmas special.

I thought that they married at the village church?

They married in Ireland, I'm sure they did,there was ref to Lord 6 not travelling for it.

I'd be fairly sure, given Pickles my way atittude, they married in the Catholic faith, strongly possibility Sybil would have had to convert to get married to him, even if she didn't she'd have promised to raise all children Catholic. there's going to be issues!

I´m sure I remember Violet discussing it whilst walking from the church.

But thinking on, that doesn´t mean they had just been married there-it wouldn´t have happened, would it?

I love it !! 3 different answers to my question! that really says something about the script\direction or whatever!

Iirc-Cora was still ill?

I think I´m confused because the wedding was discussed by Violet whilst leaving the church & for some reason I was thinking that they must have just married.

But it would have been shown, wouldn´t it?

I think she was making up an acceptable "back story" for Branson as someone had just asked about them?

Check Downton w
iki page - I can't because I'm on my phone and it gas a knicker fit if I try to look at a non mobile site and internally collapses!

I think that they were leaving Lavinia´s funeral-that´s what the church has got to do with it!

So Violet was discussing a back story with Robert as they were going to be married.

MAYBE THEY'RE NOT MARRIED gasp (collapse of Lady so and so)

the website is www.downton.wikia.com

I can't even look at word as it's blocked!

work not word!

Branson is unbelievable - 'Irish revolutionary' legging it to his artistocratic wife's family's place in England. That fake sobbing in the bedroom.

"But Tom wants the baby born in Dublin!?" After she'd just arrived back - presumably on RyanAir into Liverpool. NO worries, get Carson online to book the return leg this afternoon. It would have been so easy to to and fro at that time, esp as a very pregnant lady.

I love how they just go down and sort things out with the home secretary to keep their ilk out of trouble. To be frank, that's probably the most realistic thing about the whole episode last night.

I think there a little more to Constance Markievicz's story than being 'a Lady who married a polish man left him and shacked up with an IRA man'

Constance Markievicz was the first woman ever to be elected to Westminster.

Not only would he NEVER have married her, he wouldn't even have taken employment with a family of the ruling class ykwim? whole thing ridiculous, which is unlike Julian Fellowes isn't it? He could have worked in a cousin (along the same lines as Matthew) who had been brought up in Ireland and he could have been involved somehow in more political way, a la charles stewart Parnell who was church of Ireland/England.

Oh and just to say Branson presumably a member of the IRA. This is the Old IRA not to be confused with the terrorist organisation which appropriated the name and killed and maimed indiscriminately in the latter stages of the 20th century.

The whole Branson story is beyond ridiculous.

The Nei Temerei (sp?) that thing is called! Where the catholic church try to make the non catholic marrying a catholic promist to raise all children catholic. explains why church of ireland churches fuller than catholic churches these days I think!

Ha ha squoosh yes there's more to her story than that

She was also one of the first women in the world to hold a cabinet position.

Wooo! Go Constance!

Which means it's probably true! squoosh lizlemon If you need work you go where you can to get it. Oh and did you know that they put last week's DA on at 4 or 5p.m.ish on Sunday afternoon?

Ummm, nope, a Republican fire brand would not have gone across the water to doff his cap at the British aristocracy.

ppeatfruit, I don't think he would have taken a job with the granthams with his views. Taht doesn't stack up.. Maybe gone to England to make his fortune as a business man??, but he could have 'gone into service' in Ireland. Plenty of rich families he could have doffed his cap to closer to home.

I have to watch it on tv3! :-( (three day wait. I will be out this wednesday. tempted to say 'doh, em, wednesday?? downton abbeeeeeeeeeeeee'

I'm thrilled Edith is becoming a 'woman with a cause'. She has recovered remarkably well from her jilting though.

I'd still be lying in bed swigging vodka, dried snot all over my face, listening to Tom Waits.