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'Downton Abbey' Movie Will Leave The Door Open For a Sequel

Ani Bundel

27 Jul 2019 — 3 min read

The final Downton Abbey movie poster is here, as producers say "never say never" on a potential sequel.

The Downton Abbey movie is rounding into the final six weeks before release, which means the publicity machine is ramping up. The film, which takes place in the fall of 1927, involves the arrival of the King and Queen of England, George V (Simon Jones) and his wife, Mary of Teck (Geraldine James), to stay at Downton, throwing the Granthams into a tizzy of activity. But while this sort of thing happens regularly in period fiction and romance novels, one has to wonder if such things were still happening in the first half of the 20th century. According to creator Julian Fellowes, they did, and this story is based on something that happened in real life.

Speaking to Vanity Fair, Fellowes said he based this episode on a trip the King and Queen took just before the Great War broke out. They went to Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire in 1912.

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