Star Michelle Dockery recently shared her thoughts on Lady Mary's ultimate end in Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale and what it was like for her character to pay tribute to the late Dame Maggie Smith. Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale is slated to be the end of an era for creator Julian Fellowes' stunningly popular period drama franchise.

While Fellowes hasn't fully confirmed that we'll never see the Downton estate again, it is the end for this generation of the Crawley family. This includes Michelle Dockery's Lady Mary, the eldest Crawley sister and current caretaker of Downton Abbey. Mary's arc in Downton 's storied history revolved around her numerous romances as much as her aspiration to become her father's official heir and find her independence.

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