This story contains spoilers for the ending of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale .

Matthew Goode has officially left the estate.

After joining Downton Abbey in season five as racing driver Henry Talbot and subsequently marrying Michelle Dockery ’s Mary Crawley, the actor very briefly reprised his role in the first film, 2019’s Downton Abbey, but did not appear in the second, 2022’ s Downton Abbey: A New Era . And now he has officially been written out of the latest entry in the series, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale .

As creator Julian Fellowes explained, it was actually Matthew’s choice not to return.

“For Matthew, once he’d done the series, I think he felt he’d done the job,” he told TVLine in an interview published S

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