DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE Star Elizabeth McGovern Covers TATLER’s October Issue

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DOWNTON ABBEY star Elizabeth McGovern covers TATLER’s October 2025 issue photographed by Victor Demarchelier.

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‘Everybody definitely had mixed feelings about doing DOWNTON again, especially without Maggie,’ McGovern notes. What was she like to work with? McGovern smiles. ‘Literally everything you could possibly imagine. Absolutely wonderful, hell on earth. But it all added up to being so worth it. Maybe the audience will see it differently, but to us, during filming she was still there and all she represented. I didn’t expect that, and I was so proud.’

‘I feel really lucky because I’ve had a career which has been up and down, but consistently offered up challenges. I haven’t had that absolute fame, which is [something that can be] really crippling. Sometimes I wish I had, but I’m better off this way. That kind of fame hurts when it’s there, and it hurts when it goes. And I have never been more excited about wanting to do things than at this point in my life.’

[Photo Credit: Victor Demarchelier for Tatler Magazine]

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