The following six historic homes offer spectacularly luxurious "upstairs" rooms and fascinating glimpses of the "downstairs" servants' quarters. And what about the real Downton Abbey? Highclere ...

It followed a pattern laid down by The ­Complete Servant, written in 1825 by Sarah ... ITV’s hit drama series, Downton Abbey, for all its ­glamorous setting and closely observed Edwardian ...

Our image of this under-class is based on television programmes such as Downton Abbey and Upstairs Downstairs ... often squalid servants' quarters was stark. This was a deliberate ploy to ...

The few visitors admired the embroidered bell-pulls in the drawing room, but the bells they had rung in the old service quarters went ... at the same time.” Downton servants, though, are ...

Jim Carter talks to Phyllis Logan before a scene of “Downton Abbey” in the downstairs servant quarter set at Ealing Studios in West London. Makeup and hair artist Amy Boyd touches up Sophie ...

Because the downstairs portion of Highclere couldn’t stand in for the servants’ quarters on “Downton Abbey,” the production team built a kitchen set at London’s Ealing Studios ...

THR review: In the 'Downton Abbey' movie, the toffs upstairs and ... over Downton to the National Trust and live in the servants’ quarters while busloads of tourists troop through the Great ...

Downton Abbey gets news that James Crawley and ... with Isobel Crawley and Thomas Barrow put in charge. And in the servants' quarters, Branson, awaiting a "people's revolution," announces that ...

Downton Abbey stars got a visit from a real Duchess today as Kate Middleton popped in during filming of the hit drama. The heavily pregnant was even hailed a "functioning member of the Downton ...