Downton Abbey Movie: Was Princess Mary’s Marriage Really Unhappy? - News

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Videos can use content-based copyright law contains reasonable use Fair Use (https://www.youtube.com/yt/copyright/). The Downton Abbey movie is an ingenious mash-up: the audience’s favorite fictional period-drama characters colliding with real-life royals on the big screen. The film—written by Downton mastermind and Oscar-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes launches with a shock announcement: King George and Queen Mary will be dropping by the Granthams’ lavish estate for a surprise visit. But the king and queen aren’t the only royals rubbing elbows with Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) and Branson (Allen Leech)—their daughter Princess Mary (Kate Phillips) appears in a subplot centering around the character’s troubled marriage. But just how much truth is there to the intriguing storyline about Princess Mary and her brusque husband Viscount Lascelles? Light spoilers ahead for those who have not yet seen the movie. As it turns out, the backstory of Princess Mary’s marriage to Viscount Lascelles was even more intriguing in real life. The only daughter of King George and Queen Mary, the princess royal has been largely overlooked in history given her scene-stealing older brothers Edward, who infamously abdicated the throne, and Albert, his successor. Though she was shy and subdued in real life, the princess royal was an interesting character. Having grown up the only girl among brothers, Mary was a full-fledged tomboy—described by the New York Times as “an excellent horsewoman” and “far too athletic and fond of walking to like wearing high heels.” Princess Mary worked through her timidness to make public appearances as a teenager during World War I—visiting hospitals, training as a nurse, and eventually working two nights a week. In spite of her commendable career—establishing Princess Mary’s Christmas Gift Fund, which, according to the Harewood House foundation, distributed £100,000 worth of gifts to British servicemen in 1914—family members and media outlets alike lamented the fact that, when she was in her mid-20s, England’s only princess was still not engaged to be married. “No girl could have been lonelier,” wrote The New York Times, somewhat appallingly, in Princess Mary’s 1922 engagement announcement. “To marry a Prince seemed her destiny, but hardly a Prince remained whom she could marry. It seemed as if she were destined by the disabilities of the position to a life of single blessedness.” Even Mary’s own brother was allegedly worried his sister would be a royal spinster. In 1918, according to The Telegraph, Edward told his mistress Freda Dudley Ward that Mary risked “complete ruination.” He was concerned that, given how guarded she was by her parents, no man would “see enough of her to fall in love with her and take her.” He allegedly criticized his father for “imprisoning her at court, not letting her lead a normal life and rui

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