"I was recently sent an amusing picture of a cat, as one is these days, and I showed it to [Maggie Smith] and she fell around laughing. And for the rest of the week it started every morning with ‘show me the cat again.’ So it’s now become my thing that I try to find hilarious animals to show round."  - Laura Carmichael (x)

she-is-marvellous:

Meet the new characters on Downton, S4 (according to this article)

Tom Cullen: Lord Gillingham

Julian Ovenden: Charles Blake

Joanna David: Duchess of Yeovil

Dame Harriet Walter: Lady Shackleton

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa

Nigel Harman: Green (valet)

[x]

onecosmiclove:

http://www.itv.com/downtonabbey/news/lady-mary-first-picture-series-4/

Downton Abbey series four finds Lady Mary mourning her husband Matthew, who died six months earlier in a tragic car crash.

Matthew had just visited his wife and new baby George in hospital and…

catchingbananas1:

matthewinaditch:

BABY GEORGE

OMFGH

omg I’m so happy he’s not called Matthew - it would’ve been too depressing. I wonder why George - family name? A name Matthew liked? And omg how cute is his little nautical dress I can’t even - children’s fashion dsovijdfojdfio

dustedoffanoldie:

The filming of Downton Abbey series 4

1st March 2013

http://s1290.beta.photobucket.com/user/dustedoffanoldie/library/Downton%20Abbey%20S4%20filming%20-%201st%20March%202013

It’s not linking right, but click it, it works LOL

dustedoffanoldie:

Downton Abbey S4 Filming Part 2

1st March 2013

Tom Branson, where are you hiding?????????