Lord Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham, is devoted to safeguarding his family's heritage and the esteemed Downton Abbey estate. When his heir perishes in the Titanic disaster, distant cousin Matthew Crawley, a Manchester lawyer, unexpectedly inherits the estate and relocates with his mother, sparking tension with Lord Robert's mother, the dowager countess.

The next episode of Downton Abbey takes place in April 1912, as the family an...