Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Downton Abbey" in English language version.
"I've learned this much, never say never. I'll stick with that as my answer," Fellowes told Deadline with a smile regarding the crossover.
Of course, The Gilded Age is happening 30 years before Downton started, so the only thing you'd be able to see really was for the young Violet (Dame Maggie Smith's character) — well, no, not that young, actually, because her son would be grown up and her son and daughter-in-law would be getting married in about six years' time. So I suppose he'd be about 20 and she'd be about 13. But I'm not quite sure what there is to do with that. But we might, I suppose, reasonably enough see Cora's mother, who was quite a vivid character, if you remember. I haven't made any decision on that, but it's a different world.
"It might be quite fun to have a young Violet getting into trouble, and her son, Robert, and daughter, Rosamund, who would be in their early teens in the 1880s," Lord Fellowes said from his home in Dorset.
"It might be quite fun to have a young Violet getting into trouble, and her son, Robert, and daughter, Rosamund, who would be in their early teens in the 1880s," Lord Fellowes said from his home in Dorset.
