Downton Abbey scriptwriter Julian Fellowes is interviewed in the December edition of Vanity Fair with all sorts of helpful tips about 1920s England for enthusiastic American readers.
We learn that Lord Fellowes has a sharp eye for detail. “We’ve got to get those glasses of water off the table,” he tells one of his Downton Abbey producers. “They’re having tea. They wouldn’t have water there. A glass of water is a modern thing.”
He also confesses that he is less of a snob now than he used to be. “When I was younger and more snobbish than I am now,
I wouuld have made a kind of value judgment, whereas now, I would not ...”
The interview also contains this devastating revelation about Lord Fellowes and his wife Lady Emma Kitchener-Fellowes. “For all their latter-day Grantham-ness the couple, when on their own, typically take their supper at home in front of the TV.” How very infra dig. What would the Earl of Grantham say?
