If we are to believe Tolstoy, happy families are all alike, while every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. This is certainly true of the famil...

Fans of hit period drama Downton Abbey are getting the chance to bid for a place as an extra in the TV series. A charity auction is taking place at...

We’re used to seeing chandeliers, butlers and idyllic settings in Downton Abbey. The furthest we moved away from luxury in the last series was when ...

Walking up the long gravelled driveway to Highclere Castle, surrounded on both sides by vast countryside and rolling hills, you get a sense of how Hug...

Smoothie Nigel Havers will be lording it up in ITV's smash hit period drama Downton Abbey. Charmer Nigel, 59, will appear as aristocrat Lord Hepwor...

Oscar-winning scriptwriter Julian Fellowes has shown himself to be made of a very English gentility, admitting that criticism of his ITV drama, Downto...