Dame Maggie Smith hints that her character Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham may be killed off in the last ever episode of Downton Abbey, during her appearance on The Graham Norton Show.
The 80-year-old actress admits that while she can’t give any of the secrets of the Christmas special away, she specifically asked writer Julian Fellowes if he could create some drama for Violet.
‘I pleaded for something to happen to me,’ she tells… Read the full story