Maud has a past acquaintance with Violet Crawley, whom she meets upon her arrival. The Queen however suggest to her that she try and mend things with her relations.

She is estranged from the rest of the Crawley family, and when informed by the Queen they will be stopping at Downton on their tour of Yorkshire, Maud asks if she could go to Harewood House directly, skipping over Downton.

When Lucy turned eighteen, Maud told her the truth: that she was her mother, not her godmother. Maud, by then a widow, took Lucy in, posing as her godmother. She couldn't tell her father, so she hid her pregnancy by traveling to America.įor the next six years, Jack and his mother raised his and Maud's child before his death in the Second Boer War. At age 39 she became pregnant, much to her surprise as she thought she had been barren. He was-in her words-not a bad man, but not a clever one either.Īfter she was widowed, Maud had an affair with her husband's army servant, Jack Smith, with whom she fell passionately in love and had 10 happy years together. Her husband, David, died in the Boer War in 1880 or 1881. Specifically, her father was Robert's great uncle and she apparently inherited the 'Brampton Estate', once belonging to the Crawleys, from him. Maud is a first cousin of Robert's late father.

Downton abbey family tree