Wouldn’t you like to be at that dinner!
The Queen invited Downton Abbey’s Dowager Maggie Smith to dinner
| Posted: April 13, 2015
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have invited the “Dowager Countess of Grantham” to dine at Windsor Castle this evening.
Acclaimed actress Dame Maggie Smith – who plays acerbic matriarch Violet Crawley in the hit period drama Downton Abbey – is among 20 guests the monarch and Philip have asked to a private dinner party at the historic Berkshire residence.
Among those at the soiree will be the Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney and his wife Diana, and the Archbishop of Canterbury and his wife Caroline.
Also present will be the Duke of York, US ambassador Matthew W. Barzun, journalist and author Christopher de Bellaigue and his wife Iranian architect Bita Ghezelayagh and the artist Christopher Le Brun.