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Lady Marjorie was born on May 6 1864, or according to another episode July 12 at Southwold , the home of her wealthy parents, Walter Talbot-Carey, 12th Earl of Southwold and the Countess of Southwold. The Earl is a major influence in the Tory party. Despite parental objections, she ended up marrying the younger son of a country Parson , Richard Bellamy in 1883 and they leased a Grand Victorian Townhouse from Lady Marjorie's father, 165, Eaton Place in London's fashionable Belgravia district. They had two children, James Rupert (born 1884 ) and Elizabeth (born 1886 ). Richard later became an M.P. in the Conservative Party and was eventually elevated to the House Of Lords . For details of the premise and story lines, see the main entry at Upstairs, Downstairs . Lady Marjorie is portrayed as elegant and having the arrogance of women of her age and Class but also as basically kind. She maintains social and class distinctions at all times and, unlike her upright husband, is less concerned about absolute moral values than appearances. In 1906 , she had an affair with a much younger man, Charles Hammond, a Captain in the Khyber Rifles and a friend of her son. He asked her run off with him but she refused as she realised her duty to her family. Her lover was later killed during a battle in India in 1909 . Later a man returned with love letters she wrote to him and he told her husband Richard Bellamy but he never revealed to her that he knew about the affair. She was always having trouble with her two children. Elizabeth was a wild child and flirted with Socialism. She married in 1908 a man who failed to consummate their marriage and she had an affair with his publisher. Elizabeth became pregnant and delivered a daughter, Lucy. Her marriage was ended soon after. In 1908, James had an affair with the housemaid Sarah and she ended up expecting. James was sent to India. Sarah was shipped off to Southwold, but returned in May 1909 in labour while the King was dining upstairs. The baby boy was stillborn. On April 15, 1912 Lady Marjorie and her Lady's Maid , (Maud) Roberts, were passengers on the ill-fated voyage of the RMS ''Titanic'' . They were both presumed dead, but Roberts survived and later informed the family that she and Lady Marjorie reached a lifeboat after the iceberg collided but that her mistress had left the lifeboat to help a lost child find her mother. Roberts tried to follow Lady Marjorie but the lifeboat was lowered before she could climb out. The next day Roberts was rescued along with the other survivors, but was in a state of shock so no one knew her identity, with the result that both were listed as dead. Later when she came to in a New York hospital she realised who she was and subsequenly made her way back to London . Note, the episode ''A Family Gathering'' has the Bellamys celebrating Lady Marjorie's birthday on the same day as The King died, May 6 . In the episode ''Desirous of Change'', her birthday is, however, said to be July 12 . |
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