Downton Abbey makes hay as the sun shines over the stars
Downton Abbey’s stars have been spotted filming market scenes for the sixth series of the hit ITV show, which returns this autumn.
Elizabeth McGovern basking in the sunlight during a shoot
Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern, better known as the Earl of Grantham and his wife Countess Cora, were in the Wiltshire village of Lacock filming with Michelle Dockery, who plays their eldest daughter Lady Mary, and the boys who share the role of her young son George, Oliver and Zac Barker.
Also on set during the two-day shoot were Jim Carter and Lesley Nicol, the butler Charles Carson and cook Mrs Patmore, plus Brendan Coyle and Joanne Froggatt, who play valet John Bates and his wife Anna.
This season of Downton Abbey is now in 1925
Bonneville, 51, said: “We’re in 1925, so the series has nudged on another six months. Lady Rose has been on her honeymoon and she’s now moved to America. Tom Branston has gone to Boston and some faces that we met towards the end of the fifth season may or may not be coming over the horizon to break or make the hearts of Lady Mary and Lady Edith and people like that.”
Michelle Dockery as eldest daughter Lady Mary
A Christmas special is planned to follow the eight-episode series.