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Warning: This article contains very minor spoilers for Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale.
It’s been 15 years since Downton Abbey first strutted onto TV screens.
And with six seasons and now three…
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1. The idea for the period drama loosely came from creator Julian Fellowes' own upbringing with a diplomat father. "My mother hadn't been presented, she wasn't a [debutante]," he explained to Closer of his own family drama. "My great aunts thought she had 'caught' [my father] and they never changed. They eventually tolerated her because she had been delivered of four healthy sons, so she had done her dynastic duty."
2. Oh, did we mention Fellowes is actually a Baron and a member of the House of Lords?
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