Guest of Honour (Upstairs, Downstairs)

" Guest of Honour "
Upstairs, Downstairs episode
Episode no. Season 2
Episode 5
Directed by Bill Bain
Written by Alfred Shaughnessy
Original air date 17 November 1972
Guest appearance(s)

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)

Guest of Honour was the fifth episode of the second series of the British television series, Upstairs, Downstairs. The episode is set in 1909.

Cast

Regular cast


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.[1]

References

  1. "Upstairs, Downstairs - Season Two". Updown.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-05-27.
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