earl

“We hoped Ashton would give up, but he had his spies watching us, always. Some awful baroness . . . an earl of something or other . . . ,” Mater Lumley said.

We may not be earls or billionaires, but we can eat like them.

But the longed-for comeuppance of the brutish earl is as much an attraction to the series as Ms. Peckham.

The earl is shocked to discover that the family would have neighbors and that he’d have to “go along” the hallway to bed rather than ascend the stairs as he would in a grand home.

He inherited it following his father's death in 2015, and began to think more deeply about what it meant to be an earl.