By Marie-Louise Gumuchian

LONDON (Reuters) -The “Downton Abbey” cast bid farewell to the franchise with a third and final film, 15 years after the period drama first aired as a television series and gained a huge following in Britain and the United States.

“Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale” sees the fictitious Crawley family and their servants running a sprawling English country estate in the early 20th century now entering the 1930s, with patriarch Robert Crawley (Hugh Bonneville) ready to hand over the reins to his daughter, Mary.

But Mary (Michelle Dockery) finds herself facing a public scandal, all while the family tackles new financial woes.

“(Creator and writer) Julian (Fellowes) has constructed a beautiful, if you like, love letter to the loyal audiences that we’ve garnered over

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