10) Edith And Michael Gregson And A Baby
Bow chicka wow wow. Lady Edith pulls a Mary by sleeping with Michael Gregson before marriage (and while he’s still married). Instead of her premarital sex causing death, it results in pregnancy.
Not only does she get preggers, but Michael goes off to Germany (to become a citizen so he can divorce his wife, who’s in an asylum) and disappears. Um, what? She’s finally happy and this is how Edith is repaid?
While dealing with Michael being MIA, Edith decides to get an abortion. However, she doesn’t go through with it and sails off to Switzerland with Aunt Rosamund to give birth. She then hands over her daughter to another family. Soon enough, Edith realizes she can’t live without seeing her child, so she asks Downton’s tenant farmer Timothy Drew to take care of her baby and pass it off as his own. Yeah, this is going to go over smoothly.
Seriously, when is Edith going to catch a freaking break? Get this girl some love and happiness, stat!
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