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May 14, 2017 · Parents need to know that What Happens At The Abbey is a reality series featuring lots of drinking, strong sexual innuendo (including blurred nudity), as well as other mature themes. There's lots of hedonistic behavior, relationship drama, and silly arguments (sometimes people throw stuff, too).
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May 12, 2017 · PEOPLE caught up with two What Happens at The Abbey stars, VIP hosts Brandi Andrews and Lawrence Carroll, ahead of the series premiere and it’s safe to say that these two — who are both gay —...
Parents need to know that Downton Abbey: A New Era is the sequel to 2019's Downton Abbey, itself a spin-off of the popular English TV series. Set in 1928 at the end of the Roaring Twenties, it follows both Lady Mary's (Michelle Dockery) decision to allow a silent film to be shot at Downton and the…
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- Medieval Primogeniture
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The Downton story begins in 1912, but the family’s problem has its origin centuries earlier, in the High Middle Ages. Most European monarchies and noble families operated under the primogeniture system. The eldest son inherits the title, even if he has an older sister. In many versions of primogeniture, daughters couldn’t inherit their father’s tit...
But what about Robert’s real estate, as opposed to his title? What about Downton Abbey and the surrounding farmland? That’s where the entail comes in. An entail (a.k.a. “fee tail”) is basically a will that sets up a primogeniture system for real estate. A lord or other landholder leaves his house and land to his son “and the male heirs of his body....
England outlawed the entail in 1925, and most U.S. states have too. But that only applies to real estate. England still allows male-only primogeniture for aristocratic titles. And until 2013, the crown itself could only pass on to a woman if she had no brothers. (That’s how Queen Elizabeth II inherited. She has only a sister.) But in 2013, Parliame...
Jun 2, 2022 · Here is everything you need to know about Downton Abbey (with spoilers)! Plus, everything we know about a third Downton Abbey movie.
May 19, 2022 · Downton Abbey: A New Era moves the action forward by a few years, so their child should be a toddler by now.
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Parents need to know that Downton Abbey is a popular BBC series that launched spinoff movies, all about the lives of an aristocratic English family and their many servants. It has plenty of adult themes -- sex, scandal, and intrigue -- but never gets too graphic.
