A hilarious and tear-jerking send-off... but is it REALLY the end?

IT WAS 15 years ago when Julian Fellowes’s hit new ITV series began delighting period drama fans around the world.

- GEORGE SIMPSON

Since then, two movies have extended the six-season storyline of the Crawley family and their loyal subordinates. Now a third film, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, completes the trilogy.

Set in 1930, a year after the Wall Street Crash, Hugh Bonneville’s Lord Grantham is having financial difficulties.

Facing tough questions about keeping the upstairs/downstairs show on the road, with all its bells and whistles, he’s left weighing up an uncertain future.

Meanwhile, his daughter, Michelle Dockery’s Lady Mary, has divorced Matthew Goode’s Henry Talbot (entirely absent from the films, bar a small cameo) and is now the subject of public disgrace in London society.