Edith: “If you think I’m going to give up on someone who calls me lovely…”
I’m sat with Laura Carmichael, my onscreen sister. And we’re sat on the front row of Mulberry. (x)
No-one ever warns you about bringing up daughters. You think it’s going to be like Little Women; instead they’re at each other’s throats from dawn till dusk.
Dowager Countess: “Don’t worry, your time will come.”
Lady Edith: “Will it? Or am I just to be the maiden aunt. Isn’t this what they do? Arrange presents for their prettier relations?”
Dowager Countess: “Don’t be defeatist dear, it’s very middle class.”
The truth is, I am not a vain man, I do not consider myself a very interesting person. But I feel it’s important that my future wife should think me so. A woman who finds me boring could never love me, and I believe marriage should be based on love.
“Well lets face it that was Edith’s first kiss. The first man to call her beautiful and “fine”. She was away from her family and everyone who knows her and I think it was very liberating. Just too tempting!” - Laura Carmichael on Edith kissing the farmer (x)





