Although the Crawleys didn’t join me, I did get a taste of them at the Downton Abbey Tea at the Langham Huntington in Pasadena.
Although I loved tea parties from the time I was very young, sipping tea in my grown-up attire that evening was the beginning of a ritual that has stayed with me.I was taken by Old World traditions. The dress and demeanor. The manners and motif and the lifestyle. British royalty intrigued me. So, it is not a surprise that I would become a dedicated fan of the British television drama “Downton Abbey.
I longed to take tea with the Crawleys, Countess Cora and handsome husband, Robert, Earl of Grantham. His mother, the feisty Dowager Countess Violet Crawley, my favorite character, could destroy a person just by the way she raised her eyebrows. And yet, I yearned for an audience with her. Elegant enough to have been overseen by Crawley family butler, Mr. Carson, and housekeeper, Mrs. Hughes, the tables were laid with rose-covered china and a harpist provided soothing music.
I could picture Downton’s head cook, Mrs. Patmore, taking the scones out of the oven herself and having them delivered warm to guests, many of whom were dressed in period fashions.
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