What happens to Ross and Demelza at the end of the Poldark novels?

The novels end with Bella and three other children of Demelza and Ross happily married, traveling to Nampara to visit their now elderly parents.
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Do Ross and Demelza stay together in the end?

After Hugh died, Ross and Demelza grew closer as they knew they had both done wrong. Elizabeth's death was the point where their relationship was fully mended, and they stayed happily together.
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What happens to Ross and Demelza in Poldark?

Ross poses as a French spy

Unsurprisingly, Demelza promptly took their children and left Ross for his deceit, turning up at the Enys family home and making plans to sail to Lisbon or Jamaica to forge a new life for her family.
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What happens to Valentine Warleggan in the Poldark books?

When Selina gave birth to their son, a scandal made her leave Valentine. George took her in with his grandson and sided with her. Valentine became reckless with a lot of debts, an alcohol addiction and eventually died at 26.
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What happens between Hugh and Demelza?

Hugh made a romantic appeal to Demelza at the beach, telling her in six months he would be living in darkness and he wanted to know what it meant to love and be loved. Demelza was very taken by the proposal, and she slept with him.
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Poldark, Season 5: Where We Left Off



What is the age difference between Ross and Demelza?

2 Demelza's Age When Ross First Met Her

Demelza was 13 when Ross first met her. Book readers were taken aback since Demelza on the show didn't look 13. Ross is 10 years her senior. In the books, they had a father-daughter dynamic until Demelza turned 17, four years after Ross took her as a helper.
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Does Ross Poldark love Elizabeth or Demelza?

It has been a few years since I read them all completely, there are 12 altogether. The short answer to your question is, yes, Ross loves Demelza romantically more than he ever did Elizabeth.
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What happens to Ursula in Poldark books?

After secretly taking a seedy physician's potion, Elizabeth produced a healthy daughter, Ursula, but tragically died of gangrene. Only Dwight, who discovered her empty medicine bottle, knows what happened. George, left alone with only Valentine, his uncle Cary, and baby Ursula, takes Elizabeth's death hard.
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Do Ross and Demelza have another child?

You will find spoilers in the article. Jeremy Poldark (1791-1815) was the second child of Ross Poldark and Demelza Poldark, born two years after his elder sister, Julia Poldark died. He had three younger siblings, Clowance, Isabella-Rose and Henry Poldark.
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Does George ever find out Valentine is Ross's son?

Fans took to social media to discuss Sunday night's episode of Poldark, which saw the antagonist George Warleggan finally realise that the father of Elizabeth's son, Valentine, is actually Ross.
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Does Ross leave Demelza for Elizabeth?

Elizabeth had thought there was a chance that Ross would leave Demelza and marry her. However, he later made his choice to stay with Demelza.
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Does Demelza reconcile with Ross?

Ross and Demelza reconcile, and it is real. It's Not Where You Start, It's Where You Finish: This season ends the very same way last season ended, with Ross and Demelza standing in an embrace on the Cornwall cliffs.
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Does Ross find out about Demelza and Hugh?

Ross never asks and Demelza never actually tells him. They will work through that particularly rather large bump in the road in other ways. But it's never explicitly discussed. “It's a rather tragic story in the end.
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Why did Poldark end so abruptly?

"We are trying to serve the story to the best of our ability and the storyline of Ross and Demelza would have a time jump we'd really battle with, and it is right to end the series now while it is so strong and while these characters are loved and not diminished in any way," actress Eleanor Tomlinson, who plays Demelza ...
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Does Elizabeth remarry in Poldark?

After Francis's death, George Warleggan swooped in, trying to woo Elizabeth with the promise of financial security and never-ending treats for her son Geoffrey Charles. Eventually, financial insecurity and a bit of loneliness broke Elizabeth, and she agreed to marry George.
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Does Ross Poldark sleep with Tess?

The finale of the fifth season of the BBC1 drama saw Poldark conspire with the French in order to take down the English. Lying to his wife Demelza in an attempt to protect her, he faked an affair with the villain of the series, Tess Tregidden, who was also working with the French.
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How many kids did Ross and Demelza have?

Although gradually reconciled to the loss of Elizabeth's love, it takes Ross some time to realise his love for Demelza. Over 20 years, they have five children: Julia, Jeremy, Clowance, Isabella-Rose (called Bella), and Henry (called Harry).
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What happens to Dr ENYS in Poldark?

A few years after the war ended, Dwight moved to Cornwall to study lung disease in miners. He was reunited with Ross Poldark, and became a well known and respected doctor.
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Why did George Warleggan save Ross?

George saves Ross' life

Upon finding out that Ross has deceived them, the French Captain challenges him to a sword fight. Things look bad for Ross but his life is saved when, after having a change of heart, George (of all people) comes to his rescue.
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What happened to Drake and Morwenna in Poldark books?

They were later married. Gradually, though, Morwenna came to heal and trust Drake. They became intimate and eventually welcomed a daughter, Loveday. Drake and Morwenna were very happy to have a child of their own.
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How does Bella Poldark end?

She ends up choosing Lord Edward, and I felt truly, honestly happy for her. Edward has loved her for years (before she even married Stephen). At long last, Clowance finally ends up with someone who won't take her for granted like Stephen did.
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Who does Geoffrey Charles marry in Poldark?

His marriage to Cecily is moving forward, despite Cecily trying to stop it. She and Geoffrey Charles decide to elope, but are rounded up by her father's men and brought to the church so she can immediately marry George.
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Who is Poldark's love interest?

He marries Demelza Carne, a miner's daughter, and the marriage is talked about throughout the county as the scandal of the decade. Demelza is nothing like Ross's first love, Elizabeth. Elizabeth comes from one of the oldest families in Cornwall, she is delicate, refined and fashionable.
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How old was Demelza?

Demelza Carne.

She is thirteen years old. A stray dog, Garrick, comes along with her.
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Does Ross Poldark ever get rich?

In the wake of last week's torrid events, relations between Ross and Elizabeth were left to fester, while Demelza's hurt and humiliation at his betrayal caused a major rift to develop in their marriage. But it wasn't all bad news as an act of kindness brought Ross a business windfall and the means to reopen his mine.
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