Downton Abbey: What You Didn't Know About The Shooting Place

[Music] gonna come up well welcome to highclere castle i'm lady canalvan this is freya and this is stella and perhaps you'd like to come in and i can show you around some of the rooms which are so familiar from downton abbey come on you too here high click off is an amazing place to live it's both a privilege and a responsibility you would never build a house like this today it's got 250 to 300 rooms so it was built for another time the imposing manor house in the english county of hampshire about 100 kilometers west of london serves as the location for the british film and tv series downton abbey and is instantly recognizable in real life it is the seat of the earls of carnarvon lady carnarvon has taken care of the estate for 20 years well i'm in the saloon which is really the heart of the castle whether it's highclere castle or downton abbey and whether it's the fictional word of the real world we use this from much the same in fact there's little difference here between the film and reality except that a few pieces of furniture are sometimes removed from the former medieval dining room [Music] one of the other main rooms both for us and for downton abbey is of course the library i think it's so many people's most favorite room here too hardly a thing was changed for the shoots the approximately six and a half thousand books are not props but real historical treasures it's funny to think that everybody loves the red sofas which to us were always there because maggie smith sat on them there have been some accidents and actually on the very first day of the um tv series they dropped a lighting boom on an objective and and um which we'd left in place but they didn't mean to and things happen one of the most lavish rooms in downton abbey is the drawing room where the family gathers or receives guests even in reality the room is particularly inviting with its paintings and silk wallpaper for many exploring the castle on a guided tour this is the highlight it's a lovely room actually and then it's kind of on file to the smoking room next door where i can set up some drinks and again they use the house much as we use the house which i think in downton abbey gives us the sense of reality and authenticity because it's really here [Music] and then next door is the dining room this room where in real life royalty and statesmen already dined back under the watchful eye of king charles the first appears virtually unchanged in the series as the family's dining room dance and abby used our dining table actually so um they always had a white cloth on it because they would sit here for hours on end shooting a scene literally from seven in the morning for the next 11 hours to get four and a half minutes on television if they were lucky even the fictional royal family's bedrooms were filmed in high clair however the character lady grantham's chamber appears cooler on screen than in real life the light blue wall color has meanwhile been replaced by a warm oyster tone [Music] and the door through which the chambermaid enters actually leads somewhere else entirely in real life this is actually a cupboard but in downton abbey they wanted a door out of which o'brien the ladies made for lady grantham could pop in and out so she'd hide in the cupboard and at the appropriate moment come out when they called action so actually those dressing gowns and kind of all pictures stacked in there however filming was not limited to the interior of high clare castle the castle's expansive park also plays an important role in the series and even the bench where lady mary likes to sit is in the same spot thank you for coming around the castle with me in a virtual fashion and i hope you'll come and visit us for real as soon as you can come on then you're gonna come come and stella bring me your presents [Music] you

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Length: 5min 15sec (315 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 30 2022