Important news: an actual life-sized cake of Dame Maggie Smith's Downton Abbey character Violet Crawley, aka the Dowager Countess of Grantham, exists. The cake, which is a bust of the Dowager Countess ...

With her quips and sly one-liners, Maggie Smith's Dowager Countess often takes the cake on Masterpiece's "Downton Abbey." But at the recent season five premiere of the popular PBS series (which ...

There's now a sweeter side to Downton Abbey's Dowager Countess. The Crawley family matriarch recently turned up at an event in the US to launch season five - in the form of a cake. Cake decorator and ...

THE Countess of Wessex celebrated her 50th birthday today with a slice of cake - before quickly returning to her Royal duties with a visit to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Countess of Wessex looked delighted as she was presented with a birthday cake during a school visit. The surprise came from ...