Downton Abbey Discussion continued...

[ErikNorseman]

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the girls might not be able to inherit but their male off-spring can surely? Any male off-spring for Fatty Bum-Bum's daughters equals the male linage?

"Any male off-spring for Fatty Bum-Bum's daughters equals the male linage?"

Well it equals their husband´s lineage, doesn´t it-ie not Crawleys-other than M&M´s children.

But yes, if Matthew is the last male, what then?

Sell up rather than it go to the chauffeur´s son??

Well our lovely Queen inherited a title meant for the boys so maybe they can.

I reckon creepy Tom is fiddling the books although I cant imagine he is doing any buying for the house. Perhaps we'll find out that Mrs Hughes has a villa in Spain she plans to retire to.

That's what I was wondering didl - if there are no males from Matthew does it fall back on Fatty bum bum? Or maybe they then have to dig deep into Matthew's male linage?

Well it does seem odd that there wouldn´t be any other males if you go back far enough.

Although my all accounts it was a struggle to find Matthew-and horror of horrors, he´s so distantly related that he´s not an aristo!

"The hated English" When we lived in north London we lived next door to irish Cs and in our road there must've been 5 families who were irish they were all friendly and it was in the time when some of their compatriots were leaving bombs about the place.

Remember [JF's] he's a massive Tory in real life

You say that as though it's a shameful character defect holdmecloser

Edith on Bbc1 now

Only for about 10s though

Darn missed itWhoKnows Did she say anything interesting?

Not really, was really about a new play she's in. I always like to see what

Sorry, phone posting. What actors look like in RL. She spoke like Edith but not quite as posh. They just asked her about the jilting and she said she was glad it had been aired now and she didn't have to keep it secret any more.

Did I imagine it or did someone mention the entail ending with Mathew?

I think Lord G's line abt the eeeevil Catholics was absolutely in period. Explains why people like Branson were about to rebel.

I refuse to go infantile by saying Fatty BumBum. Sorry, all. Maybe I could go with Fatarse...

Thanks WhoKnows Yes the jilting sure was a surprise!

It wouldn't be surprising if Mat's firing blanks he did have some sort of injury 'down there' in the war didn't he?

Cousin Matthew fires porridge, not sperm.

Oh I know the 'catholic johnny foreigner' comment was completely accurate for the time. I was pleased that JF was giving some true depths to an aristocratic Lord of the time rather than portraying him as some modern day liberal whose main preoccupation is his servant?s wellbeing.

More realism in terms of these opinions would be a good thing.

Very true squoosh he's not very liberal where his DD's marriages are concerned though is he? Though it's true he uncharacteristically "comes round" in the end.

I thnk there are still people in the british aristocracy who would think like that, even ifthey've never set foot in an anglican church for anything other than hatch,match and dispatch.

@pptrea, I had a bit of that in England, very occasionally somebody would want a metaphorical medal for not holding it against me that I was irish when the the ira were up to no good. I didn't see it as my shame ykwim. I'd never associated with any terrorist of any description, so I didn't feel gratitude that somebody could overlook the fact that I was Irish! I suppose I expected nothing less. ANd in fairness, that is exactly what happened, over a decade of living in the UK and only the odd knobhead said something stupid. Everybody else was fine. But then, I was in London where there was every nationality under the sun.

Sorry if i sounded a bit racist or anti R.C. jenna i certainly didn't mean to; DH is R.C. I was saying that exactly as you said most 'normal' people just get on with their lives the best they can living and working where they are able to. IYSWIM