Those real-life historical aristocrats could never have got caught up in shenanigans like Downton’s Crawley family, right? Wrong, it turns out. Some of them were really quite naughty View 7 Images Lady Worsley, played by Natalie Dormer in TV’s The Scandalous Lady W, took a reported 27 lovers (Image: We Love TV)

It's the posh saga centred around a country pile that’s seen everything from affairs to murder, as well as tragic deaths and disasters. Now, after a hit TV series and two movies, a farewell flick called Downton Abbey : The Finale is set to open in cinemas this week. ‌

Set in the 1930s it stars Hugh Bonneville as the Earl of Grantham and Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary , in a plot featuring a scandalous divorce and money troubles at the fictional Yorkshire estate.

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