Over the years, I have heard so many people discuss Downton Abbey. I heard it was a British series seen on American PBS stations. As an Amazon Prime member, I decided to watch binge watch this series last week and I am up to Season 5 already. During the coronavirus pandemic and the stay at home order in the Nation's Capitol, I have been staying up until 5 a.m. in the mornings binge watching this series. Dame Maggie Smith aka Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham is my favorite character. However, there are so many characters in this series and their names are hard to remember. The actress playing Lady Mary is not right for the part. She's too skinny and she doesn't have a commanding presence to be an aristocrat. Although this is a dramatic series, it has a lot of comedic scenes, and especially between Isobel Crawley and Violet Crawley. They constantly came for each other. As an U.S. citizen, I couldn't imagine living a life style of late night parties, dressing up in formal wear every night for dinner, and not having a care in the world. The British nobility is the peerage of the United Kingdom. The nobility of its four constituent home nations has played a major role in shaping the history of the United Kingdom, although now they retain only the rights to stand for election to the House of Lords, dining rights there, position in the formal order of precedence, the right to certain titles, and the right to an audience (a private meeting) with the monarch. Still, more than a third of British land is in the hands of aristocrats and traditional landed gentry. This life style is not for me.