The people at Downton have nice lives, but there is no way in hell that it was aspirational - the whole class system was constructed around rank and knowing your place.
Unless you were born in the right circles it wasn't going to happen. Pre-WWI, anyway.
The people at Downton have nice lives, but there is no way in hell that it was aspirational - the whole class system was constructed around rank and knowing your place.
Unless you were born in the right circles it wasn't going to happen. Pre-WWI, anyway.