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The Making of Downton Abbey: Setting the Scene

The aristocratic way of life that had evolved at places like Downton Abbey was nearly ruined by the time we meet the Crawleys in the popular PBS television series. How did a few families come to own so much English property? Why did Roberts's family need for him to marry an heiress like Cora? Learn about the landscape designers, land ownershop patterns, and inheritance laws that produced great estates like Downtown (Highclere Castle in real life), and why radical changes were inevitable.

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