Who is older Mary or Edith?

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Fellowes was born into a family of the British landed gentry in Cairo, Egypt, the youngest of four boys, to Peregrine Edward Launcelot Fellowes (1912–1999) and his British wife, Olwen Mary (née Stuart-Jones).
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announced that in 1912, Mary Crawley was 21, Edith 20, and Sybil 17. Sybil was 24 when she died, making Mary 28, and Edith 27. Mary had her baby at age 29.
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Is Edith higher than Mary?

Mary is still currently only a lady, like all daughters of the nobility. Had Matthew lived, she would have become a countess but Edith would still have outranked her. Edith is now a marchioness, one step below a duchess and ranked above a countess.
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How old is Edith at the beginning of Downton Abbey?

' Lady Edith too, played by Laura Carmichael, now 28, has retained the youth of a 20-year-old all the way through to 32, despite having her first child and enduring the agony of giving it away.
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Are Mary and Edith sisters?

Edith was considering marrying Bertie Pelham and, because his cousin conveniently dropped dead in Tangiers, she would become a Marquess, meaning Edith would wind up the most landed member of the Crawley family. This, as you might imagine, didn't sit well with her older, awful sister Mary.
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Who is older Edith or Sybil?

Lady Sybil Cora Branson (née Crawley; born April, May or June 1895 — Between April and August 1920) was the youngest daughter of Robert and Cora Crawley, the Earl and Countess of Grantham, and the younger sister of Lady Mary and Lady Edith.
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How old are Mary Edith Sybil?

Age of Mary Crawley | Fandom. The corresponding article about Edith Crawley on this site says that Mary was 21 in 1912. Julian Fellowes announced that in 1912, Mary Crawley was 21, Edith 20, and Sybil 17. Sybil was 24 when she died, making Mary 28, and Edith 27.
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Is Edith the middle child?

That leaves us with Edith, the less-lovely sister and the middle child. She's the invisible one, the one whose own father remarked of her: “Poor old Edith.
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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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Does Mary know 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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Why doesn't Edith have a lady's maid?

Maybe Edith's lady's maid is new and she doesn't quite trust her to do her best when she's going to be seeing the King and Queen. So Edith gave her lady's maid time off for the duration of Edith's trip to Downton.
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Does Lord Grantham have an illegitimate child?

Cora decides who's inheriting – and it's not Lady Mary's son

She knows that Thomas is the illegitimate son of O'Brien and Lord Grantham – and the rightful heir to the house. She knows it will kill her husband to see an illegitimate child inherit Downton Abbey and she has waited a long time for this moment.
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How much older is Bates than Anna?

Bates is a good 15 years older than Anna, and while he's a perfectly good-looking chap, Anna is stunning. Even in a maid's uniform with her hair severely pulled back. "Bates and Anna seemed unlikely at first," says Coyle.
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Is Edith Rosamund's daughter?

She is the sister-in-law of Cora, aunt of Lady Mary, Lady Edith and the late Lady Sybil, aunt-in-law of the late Matthew Crawley, Tom Branson, Henry Talbot, and Herbert Pelham and great-aunt of Sybbie Branson, George Crawley, Marigold, and Caroline Talbot.
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Who is better Mary or Edith?

In the end Edith outranks all in their family, she is now a marchioness, higher than Cora (a countess), her grandmother (dowager countess), Robert (a earl), Rose (the wife of the future lord sinderby), Isobel (now Lady Merton), Rosamound (earl daughter), Mary (earl daughter).
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Who has the highest rank in Downton Abbey?

The five ranks, in descending order, are:
  • duke/duchess.
  • marquess/marchioness.
  • earl/countess.
  • viscount/viscountess.
  • baron/baroness.
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Is Lord Grantham royalty?

Even though George is Robert's grandson, he is still heir presumptive rather than heir apparent since he can still hypothetically be displaced by a son of Robert and Cora, or, if Robert were to remarry for some reason, a son of his by his other wife.
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Does Tom Branson remarry in Downton Abbey?

Fans will also have been delighted to see that chauffeur Tom has found love again as he appears to remarry in wedding scenes that see him and maid Lucy Smith (Tuppence Middleton) tie the knot. Tom married into the aristocratic Crawley family only to be devastated by the death of his first wife, Lady Sybil.
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What happens to Lady Edith's child?

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". With Edith's marriage to Bertie, Marigold would move to her stepfather's estate of Brancaster Castle and probably live out her childhood there.
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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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Who is the father of marigold in Downton Abbey?

Michael Gregson (b. 1879 or 1880 — d. 1922) was an editor and publisher for The Sketch, a society magazine based in London. He was the employer and lover of Lady Edith Crawley, and the late father of her only daughter, Marigold, whom he would never know.
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Did Edith set the fire on purpose?

To be fair, incinerating Downton wasn't Lady Edith's intent. She made an honest mistake. She was feeling miserable and she drifted off into a miserable sleep with the fire still burning in the fireplace.
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Does Edith Find love Downton Abbey?

After six seasons of troubles, Lady Edith finally finds happiness. In the last episode of the series, the middle Crawley daughter marries Bertie Pelham to become the Marchioness of Hexham, a position which outranks everyone else in her family.
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How much older is Sir Anthony than Edith?

The family's attitude towards Sir Anthony certainly didn't help, with all the talk of the 25-year age difference and the fact that Edith would be his nurse. Even Edith at one point said that she loved him because he needed her, which struck me as a bad reason to get married.
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How many kids does Lady Edith have?

In 1925, she married Herbert "Bertie" Pelham, 7th Marquess of Hexham. As the Marchioness of Hexham she outranks the members of her immediate family, including her mother and father. She has a daughter, Marigold, with her deceased lover, Michael Gregson, and in 1927 she revealed she's pregnant with Bertie's child.
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What did Lady Edith become?

At New Years of 1926, Edith would become the new Marchioness of Hexham and she had finally succeeded in gaining the happiness she had always wanted.
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