Ah, we’re all too literal, what with the upcoming blizzard. :)>-
It was actually illegal for someone to marry the widow of their brother–and presumably also with the sexes reversed–in the Church of England as of The Great War. (This figured in the wonderful quartet of YA books Flambards, by K.M. Peyton, a favorite author of mine.) At some point, I believe, this changed. …
Okay, I looked it up. It became fully legal to marry the sister of one’s deceased wife in 1907, and it became legal with the sexes reversed in 1921. So I suppose Tom could legally marry Mary…or Edith.
Tom will marry neither of them, ick! He loved Sybil and she was so very different from her sisters. I predict the cutie editorial assistant for Edith and either the race car Aidan Quinn look alike for Mary or that engineer guy whose name I keep forgetting.
Now that Tom is back, will Mary still be the agent?
Tom can mary Mary in America where British law does not apply.
I hope Edith ends up with the sweetheart agent a nd Mary ends up on the sidelines for once. She is so jealous of anyone else’s good fortune, especially Edith’s.
@Consolation I’ve never met a K.M. Peyton fan before! (Though I hated the most recent Flambards book - it’s not canon!)
Add another K. M. Peyton fan. The Flambards TV mini-series from the late 70s was excellent. Even DH loved it - we saw it at a time when we were home bound with an infant. Ah memories.
Sorry for the diversion - carry-on with Downton. Hubby and I are enjoying the speculation and script suggestions!
Actually, my favorite of her books is the Pennington series. Also Snowfall, Blind Beauty…
Oh me too. Pennington books were brilliant.
I watched the latest DA a few days late on Apple TV. No commercials at all!
Was the father of Edith’s child proved to be dead?
^ I believe I remember accurately that Lord G said something about “they found what remained of him” after he was caught up in a disruption. I interpreted this as the Beer Hall Putsch, but haven’t double checked the dates for feasibility on that and the program didn’t name Hitler as I recall.
I wonder Patrick Crawley, Mary’s first fiance will come back later.
Misidentification. It wasn’t him. Edith will be about to walk down the aisle with the cute guy who helped her put out the magazine issue when in will walk Gregson.
Gregson will come into the church as Edith attempts to marry again to object.
Will she be late for her own wedding because no one would let Barrow wind the clocks?
^That is an awfully good question!
Just finished binge re-watching season 1. That season was just about perfect. SO much foreshadowing that we didn’t catch the first time, as we were at that time primarily trying to figure out who the heck was who!
But Gregson is already married to a woman who is in an insane asylum (a fact that never seemed to be revisited but would have been the reason he couldn’t marry Edith).
I’ve tried to remember one single instance when Mary has ever been jealous of anyone else (especially Edith) and there just aren’t any. Edith is always the one who is eaten up with jealousy over Mary, Sybil, and pretty much everyone else who has either a husband or children.
No one ever saw a body …