What episode does Cora find out about Marigold?

“When you have property, you have choices,” says Anna. It's Downtonomics 101 and everyone is becoming hip to the promise of real estate. Cora finds out the truth about Marigold and summons the Dowager Countess and Aunt Rosamund to her bedroom. She wants an explanation.
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Does Cora find out about Edith's baby?

When Marigold was first born in Geneva, Switzerland, Edith planned to give her up for adoption with only Lady Rosamund Painswick knowing of her existence. However, Violet and later Cora eventually learned the truth, along with most of the family, and Cora arranged for Marigold to live at Downton as Edith's "ward".
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Does Mary ever find out about Marigold?

Cunning Mary finds out from Tom that Marigold is Edith's daughter. In the hands of a caring sister, this information would lead to reconciliation and offers of assistance. In Mary's hands, this information is a samurai sword.
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Does the family find out about Marigold?

Mary- Mary grew suspicious about Marigold when she heard a puzzling remark about the child being a family secret between Cora and Violet and she tried getting answers out of Tom and Anna but they said nothing but they knew. In the end she figured it out and forced Tom to confirm the truth with her.
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What episode does Marigold get kidnapped?

'Downton Abbey': Marigold Kidnapped — Season 6 Episode 2 Recap | TVLine.
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Cora's Plan for Lady Edith



Does Mrs Drewe find out about Marigold?

She and Tim reveal the truth to Margie, who refuses to believe it. She tears up a copy of Marigold's birth certificate that Edith brought (though Edith has others), and does not accept the truth until Tim reveals the note he received asking him to adopt Marigold was written by his own hand.
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Who gets Edith pregnant?

Downton Abbey bombshell: Lady Edith discovers she is pregnant with married Michael Gregson's child.
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Does Lady Edith keep Marigold?

Edith and her aunt, Lady Rosamund Painswick went to Geneva, Switzerland, where Marigold was born. After weaning her, she gave her to a family named Schroeder in Geneva. However, she couldn't bear her daughter remaining in Switzerland.
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Does Lord Grantham have an illegitimate son?

She knows that Thomas is the illegitimate son of O'Brien and Lord Grantham – and the rightful heir to the house.
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Does Tom Branson remarry in Downton Abbey?

Does Tom Branson remarry in Downton Abbey? Yes. The film opens with the wedding of Tom Branson marrying Lucy Smith in a beautiful ceremony.
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Who knows Marigold is Edith's daughter?

Aunt Rosamund arrives on the train and the Dowager Countess greets her at the station. The clucky co-conspirators agree that they must let Cora know that Edith has a child. You know, Cora, it's little Marigold. The one who arrived like some miracle at the Drewe farm following Edith's loooong trip to Europe.
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Is Mary jealous of Edith?

She was a editor and her own London flat and was due to become a very high lady and Mary was incredibly jealous. Her snippet of hatred to Edith was growing and you can see how much the attention was going towards Edith because all that Mary was an widow and an agent.
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Who did Edith marry?

Lady Edith marries Bertie Pelham after he begs for forgiveness in emotional Downton Abbey Christmas finale. Downton Abbey's Lady Edith finally got her happy ending in tonight's emotional last ever episode.
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What's the deal with Marigold on Downton Abbey?

When Lady Edith integrates Marigold into the Grantham family, she identifies her as a foundling, taken in by the largess of Downton Abbey. Typical of the aristocratic life in the early 1900's, Marigold now lives under the stigma of adoption, while being cared for by nannies -- yet another bond she will have to build.
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Does Lord Grantham sleep with Jane?

SPOILER ALERT: Downstairs comes upstairs as Downton's Earl has secret bedroom tryst with his new maid. Things are about to get steamy at the Grantham country house in Downton Abbey. Viewers will see the Earl of Grantham commit the ultimate betrayal as he shares a steamy kiss with his maid, Jane, on Sunday night.
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Who inherits Downton Abbey in the end?

Lord Robert has no sons, and an “entail” keeps any of his daughters from inheriting his great estate and mansion: Downton Abbey. Robert's heir is Matthew Crawley, a distant cousin. Matthew will someday inherit both the earl's title and his real estate, thanks to the entail.
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Does Cora find out about O'Brien and the soap?

Cora ends up miscarrying the only male heir to the Crawley/Grantham fortune. Cora never suspects O'Brien's treachery, and somehow the lady's maid lasts a few more seasons. Mr. Bates went to jail and we somehow made it through the boredom.
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Who does Tom Branson marry in Downton Abbey?

The rest of the film is occupied by a few minor plots involving the many, many characters that have come to define Downton Abbey. Tom marries Lucy (Tuppence Middleton), the secret daughter of a cousin named Maude Bagshaw (Imelda Staunton). By the end of the movie, the two have a baby.
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What secret did Bates know about Obrien?

First, we deliciously learn what Bates whispered to O'Brien: "her ladyship's soap." Yes, that would be the trump card that Thomas needed.
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Who does Rose marry in Downton Abbey?

Actually, Lady Rose MacClare, the seemingly permanent houseguest at Downton Abbey (at least until she marries The Hon. Ephraim Atticus Aldridge), shares many qualities with Cinderella.
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Does Rose get pregnant in Downton Abbey?

In September 1925, she gives birth to the couple's daughter, whom they name Victoria Rachel Cora Aldridge after Atticus's mother and Cora respectively, and the couple, sans child, return to Downton for the 1925-1926 new years celebrations.
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Does Edith get an abortion?

Thinking that she had no choice, Edith went to the alternative of an abortion. She admitted that she still loves Michael and would have loved his baby. She soon came to realize that going though with the abortion was a mistake. Rosamund is certain there is way forward for both her and the baby.
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Why did Sir Anthony leave Edith at the altar?

Sir Anthony suddenly realizes he can't marry Edith because if he does, in a few short years their lives will turn into a British-period-piece version of Amour. He stops the wedding and says he can't let Edith throw her life away.
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Who does Edith kiss in season 2?

Series Two

While helping, she and John Drake seem to get on very well, and John Drake begins flattering the lonely Edith. Mrs Drake secretly witnesses them kiss.
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Does Edith take Marigold back?

Mr. Drewe then tells his wife that Marigold is the daughter of a friend who died, they raise her and think of her as their own daughter. As the result of another "shall I keep and love my daughter?" coin flip, Edith changes her mind again, takes her back from the Drewes and raises her at Downton as her ward.
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