This novel is not a retelling of the most popular romance series on television, nor an imitation or novelization. Here is the backstory of the legendary Downton Abbey, the starting point of a grandiose family saga that has captivated hundreds of millions of viewers around the world.

Do you want to know how Cora and Robert met, and how their arranged marriage turned into a love story? Don't you understand why the Granthams' huge estate is called the "abbey" and not the Downton estate? Have you asked yourself how an “emancipated” American woman managed to turn into a British lady and become part of the London “high society”, usually closed to strangers? Have you ever wondered what “skeletons in the closet” and dangerous family secrets are hidden behind the front facade of Downton and what kind of passions are boiling in the master’s chambers and in half of the servants? Do you want to know what happened on board the Titanic, with which the Downton estate almost sank?

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