[Politicalkiddo]

Her character makes lots of “personal” references to the 1800s. Don’t recall how early, though.

[tanknetter]

Her character makes lots of “personal” references to the 1800s. Don’t recall how early, though.

Makes sense. Maggie Smith is in her early 80s. If she's the same age as her character in 1924, that would mean she was born in the mid 1840s. At the time of the wedding of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha to Russian Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna (in 1874) she would have been in her early 30s.

So the timeline fits pretty well.