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Guest of Honour (Upstairs, Downstairs)

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Episode no.
  
Season 2 Episode 5

Written by
  
Alfred Shaughnessy

Directed by
  
Bill Bain

Original air date
  
1973

Guest of Honour was the fifth episode of the second series of the British television series, Upstairs, Downstairs. The episode is set in 1908.

Contents

Cast

Regular cast
  • Rachel Gurney ( Lady Marjorie Bellamy )
  • Gordon Jackson ( Mr. Agnus Hudson )
  • Angela Baddeley ( Mrs. Kate Bridges )
  • Jean Marsh ( Rose Bucke )
  • David Langton ( Richard Bellamy )
  • Pauline Collins ( Sarah )
  • Christopher Beeny ( Edward )
  • Patsy Smart ( Roberts )
  • Jenny Tomasin ( Ruby )
    • Guest cast
  • Joan Benham ( Lady Prudence Fairfax )
  • Elvi Hale ( Mrs. Millicent Hartfield )
  • Ailsa Grahame ( Lady Wanborough )
  • Lockwood West ( King Edward VII )
  • Mary Kenton ( Alice Keppel )
  • Anthony Woodruff ( Dr. Foley )

    • Plot

    The Bellamys host the King Edward VII. Sarah Moffat founds Southwold too boring, and runs away to Eaton Place, turning up the evening the King Edward VII is dining upstairs in early 1909. Sarah goes into labour and gives birth the same evening, but the baby boy dies minutes after birth.

    References

    Guest of Honour (Upstairs, Downstairs) Wikipedia
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