Downton Abbey: A New Era’s bittersweet ending saw Dowager Countess Violet Crawley passing away surrounded by her family, so the table was already set for the rest of the cast to mourn her presence.

The late actress, renowned for her roles as Professor McGonagall in the ‘Harry Potter’ series and the Dowager Countess in ‘Downton Abbey,’ leaves behind five grandchildren from her two sons.

Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess Dowager of Strathmore, was buried in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, wearing, it is said, a superb bridal dress. Her original gravestone inscription is very faint ...