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Emmys 2012: Meet the Cast of Downton Abbey

Hugh Bonneville

Robert, Earl of Grantham

Lord Grantham is the head of the Crawley family and of Downton. He has three daughters but no sons to inherit the estate onto upon his death. Since the series begins in 1912, the pre-WWI British aristocratic family must follow the customs and practices of the era.
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