PEOPLE Downton Abbey

In a new special edition, PEOPLE goes inside Downton Abbey, which enchanted television audiences for six seasons with its addicting narratives and richly compelling characters. Inside a grand Yorkshire castle, the aristocratic Crawleys and their domestic servants played out personal dramas—love and death, triumph and scandal—amid the tumultuous world events that unfolded from 1912 through the Roaring Twenties. Creator-writer Julian Fellowes’ masterpiece exploded into a global phenomenon and vaulted onto the big screen with a wildly successful 2019 feature film. Now comes 2022’s Downton Abbey: A New Era. PEOPLE presents a deep look at the films and the series, with exclusive photos and interviews with the cast and creative team.