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* BattleDiscretionShot: The Battle of Waterloo is almost entirely depicted offscreen aside from the sounds of cannonfire.
* KilledOffscreen:
** Applied to Viscount Bellasis and his comrade Richard Bouverie, both killed in the Battle of Waterloo.
** The Duke of Richmond has passed away during the TimeSkip as his wife is referred to as the Dowager Duchess.
** Applied to Viscount Bellasis and his comrade Richard Bouverie, both killed in the Battle of Waterloo.
** The Duke of Richmond has passed away during the TimeSkip as his wife is referred to as the Dowager Duchess.
** In the book it's mentioned that Peregrine and Stephen had a younger sister who died as an infant.
* RobbingTheDead: James mentions being in the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo where scavengers were picking at corpses.
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* SecretKeeper: Speer is the only person who knows about [[spoiler:Susan having an affair with John Bellasis.]]
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* SecretKeeper: Speer is the only person who knows about [[spoiler:Susan having an affair with John Bellasis. Anne is let in when she figures out that Susan stole the papers on Charles Pope from John.]]
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* TemptingFate: As Edmund prepares to leave with the rest of his regiment, he declares that he and Sophia are the luckiest couple alive, and they'll laugh at her fears and be merry when he returns. Edmund is killed in the next three days.
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* CanonForeigner: The miniseries features a young man named Stan not present in the books, whom Turton takes on as a second footman. Stan's main function is to serve as a SatelliteCharacter and sounding board for Ellis, who regales her story about Princess Feodora losing her chance to become queen and why the people upstairs aren't much different than those downstairs.
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* CanonForeigner: CanonForeigner:
** The miniseries features a young man named Stan not present in the books, whom Turton takes on as a second footman. Stan's main function is to serve as a SatelliteCharacter and sounding board for Ellis, who regales her story about Princess Feodora losing her chance to become queen and why the people upstairs aren't much different than thosedownstairs.downstairs.
** Every character in ''The Next Chapter'', with the exception of [[spoiler:Susan, Oliver, Susan and John's illegitimate child Frederick, and John Bellasis himself.]]
** The miniseries features a young man named Stan not present in the books, whom Turton takes on as a second footman. Stan's main function is to serve as a SatelliteCharacter and sounding board for Ellis, who regales her story about Princess Feodora losing her chance to become queen and why the people upstairs aren't much different than those
** Every character in ''The Next Chapter'', with the exception of [[spoiler:Susan, Oliver, Susan and John's illegitimate child Frederick, and John Bellasis himself.]]
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* GiveHimANormalLife: Charles Pope; his grandparents the Trenchards gave him to the Popes so he would not live with the stigma of being born out of wedlock.
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* HeirClubForMen: It's mentioned that the Brockenhurst estates and title are entailed, so they will pass to the Earl's nephew John Bellasis eventually if his father Stephen predeceases his uncle Lord Brockenhurst. Stephen attempts to use this to force Caroline to give him money in the miniseries but to no avail.
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* HeirClubForMen: It's mentioned that the Brockenhurst estates and title are entailed, so they will pass to the Earl's nephew John Bellasis eventually if his father Stephen predeceases his uncle Lord Brockenhurst. In the miniseries, Stephen attempts to use this to force Caroline to give him money in the miniseries but to no avail.
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* MoneyIsNotPower: Alluded to by James. When Charles says he has all the money he needs after Lady Brockenhurst agrees to fund his ventures in India, James replies "Nobody has all the money they need." In James' case, he's been made wealthy through his business but is still looked down upon by the upper classes he wishes to ingratiate himself with.
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%%* AbusiveParents: Oliver in the sequel series towards Frederick.
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** Downplayed with the "big" part for the Trenchards. While James and Anne are HappilyMarried, his naked ambition drives her to distraction at times. Their son Oliver is an aspiring UpperClassTwit who frequently clashes with James, and his wife Susan is a self-admitted StepfordSmiler who is unhappy with her lot and embarks on an affair with John Bellasis to liven things up. It's also made clear that James and Anne (plus Oliver to a lesser extent) have never gotten over their daughter Sophia's death. Press releases for the second season indicate the family will be bigger... and more screwed up.
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** Downplayed with the "big" part for the Trenchards. While James and Anne are HappilyMarried, his naked ambition drives her to distraction at times. Their son Oliver is an aspiring UpperClassTwit who frequently clashes with James, and his wife Susan is a self-admitted StepfordSmiler who is unhappy with her lot and embarks on an affair with John Bellasis to liven things up. It's also made clear that James and Anne (plus Oliver to a lesser extent) have never gotten over their daughter Sophia's death. Press releases for the second season sequel series indicate the family will be bigger... and more screwed up.
* HonorBeforeReason: Charles Pope. He refuses to deny untrue allegations against him because he doesn't want to create another rift between James and Oliver Trenchard and his attempt to make amends with the latter [[spoiler:nearly gets him killed by John Bellasis.]]
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* InsultBackfire: When Lady Templemore accuses Lady Brockenhurst of corrupting Maria by helping her defy her mother, Lady Brockenhurst replies that she hopes she has.
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* InsultBackfire: When Lady Templemore accuses Lady Brockenhurst of corrupting Maria by helping her defy her mother, Lady Brockenhurst smiles and replies that she hopes she has.
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* BootstrappedTheme: Charles Pope's theme, heard when he's introduced, is used for the main theme for the miniseries.
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* BootstrappedTheme: BootstrappedTheme:
** Charles Pope's theme, heard when he's introduced, is used for the main theme for theminiseries.miniseries.
** "Sophia's Letters", mainly used as a theme for the Stephen Bellasis branch of the family, is frequently used in trailers for ''Belgravia: The Next Chapter".
** Charles Pope's theme, heard when he's introduced, is used for the main theme for the
** "Sophia's Letters", mainly used as a theme for the Stephen Bellasis branch of the family, is frequently used in trailers for ''Belgravia: The Next Chapter".
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** John and Susan's affair is represented by the song "Quite a Secret".
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** John and Susan's affair is represented by the song track "Quite a Secret".
** Stephen Bellasis' family generally has a fast-paced violin line in the track "Sophia's Letters".
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: John Bellasis' attempts to blackmail his aunt through the Trenchards' secrets just lead to solving the legitimacy of his rival Charles Pope.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: John Bellasis' attempts to blackmail his aunt through the Trenchards' secrets just lead to solving the legitimacy of his rival Charles Pope.Pope as he places all the evidence into a single spot.
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* BootstrappedTheme: Charles Pope's theme heard when he's introduced is used for the main theme.
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* BootstrappedTheme: Charles Pope's theme theme, heard when he's introduced introduced, is used for the main theme.theme for the miniseries.
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* TheDandy: John Bellasis; one of his first lines is about how many clothes he has to have to keep up with the fashion in London.
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* TheDandy: John Bellasis; one of his first lines is about how many clothes he has to have to keep up with the fashion in London.London, specifically billing the tailors.
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** Sophia Trenchard ordered Jane to burn her papers about her secret marriage to Viscount Bellasis, but Jane never did because she felt they were not hers to destroy.
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** Sophia Trenchard had ordered Jane to burn her papers about her secret marriage to Viscount Bellasis, but Jane never did because she felt they were not hers to destroy.
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In October 2022, a [[https://deadline.com/2022/09/epix-rebrand-mgm-plus-hotel-cocaine-julian-fellowes-belgravia-1235128854/ follow-up series was announced]] titled ''Belgravia: the Next Chapter'', picking up 30 years after the first series. The series will premiere in January 2024 on MGM+.
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In October 2022, a [[https://deadline.com/2022/09/epix-rebrand-mgm-plus-hotel-cocaine-julian-fellowes-belgravia-1235128854/ follow-up series was announced]] titled ''Belgravia: the Next Chapter'', picking up 30 years after the first series. The series will premiere premiered in January 2024 on MGM+.
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* CanonForeigner: The miniseries features a young man named Stan not present in the books, who Turton takes on as a second footman. Stan's main function is to serve as a SatelliteCharacter and sounding board for Ellis, who regales her story about Princess Feodora losing her chance to become queen and why the people upstairs aren't much different than those downstairs.
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* CanonForeigner: The miniseries features a young man named Stan not present in the books, who whom Turton takes on as a second footman. Stan's main function is to serve as a SatelliteCharacter and sounding board for Ellis, who regales her story about Princess Feodora losing her chance to become queen and why the people upstairs aren't much different than those downstairs.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Oliver points out that [[spoiler:his parents should have told him Charles was his nephew and therefore he wouldn't have been so foolish as to slander him.]]
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Oliver points out that [[spoiler:his parents should have told him Charles was his nephew and therefore he wouldn't have been so foolish as to slander him.]]him]].
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* UnnamedParent: Charles Pope's foster mother is only every known as Mrs. Pope.
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* UnnamedParent: Charles Pope's foster mother is only every ever known as Mrs. Pope.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: In the novel, Lady Brockenhurst and Lady Templemore are on first-name terms... until Lady Templemore discovers that Lady Brockenhurst is encouraging Maria's romance with Charles Pope, to which Lady Templemore declares her christian name to only be used with friends. She lightens up by the end when she learns Charles' true nature.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: In the novel, Lady Brockenhurst and Lady Templemore are on first-name terms... until Lady Templemore discovers that Lady Brockenhurst is encouraging Maria's romance with Charles Pope, to which Lady Templemore declares her christian Christian name to only be used with friends. She lightens up by the end when she learns Charles' true nature.
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%%* WomenAreWiser: The wives of each aging patriarch are much more wary of their servants than their husbands.
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%%* WomenAreWiser: The wives of each aging patriarch are much more wary of their servants than their husbands.husbands are.
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* OnlyInItForTheMoney: In the novel, James's valet Myles is mentioned to work for the Trenchards because they pay better than his last masters who were more ImpoverishedPatrician.
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** James and Anne Trenchard's daughter Sophia died in childbirth.
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** James and Anne Trenchard's daughter Sophia died in childbirth.giving birth to Charles Pope.
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In October 2022, a [[https://deadline.com/2022/09/epix-rebrand-mgm-plus-hotel-cocaine-julian-fellowes-belgravia-1235128854/ follow-up series was announced]] titled ''Belgravia: the Next Chapter'', picking up 30 years after the first series.
series. The series will premiere in January 2024 on MGM+.
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In October 2022, a [[https://deadline.com/2022/09/epix-rebrand-mgm-plus-hotel-cocaine-julian-fellowes-belgravia-1235128854/ follow-up series was announced]] titled ''Belgravia: the Next Chapter'', picking up 25 30 years after the first series.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: In the novel, Lady Brockenhurst and Lady Templemore are on first-name terms... until Lady Templemore discovers that Lady Brockenhurst is encouraging Maria's romance with Charles Pope, to which Lady Templemore declares her christian name to only be used with friends.
* WhamLine: While arguing about Lady Brockenhurst, Anne Trenchard says "Do we have a right to hide from her that she has a grandson?", revealing Sophia and Edmund had a child together.
* WhamLine: While arguing about Lady Brockenhurst, Anne Trenchard says "Do we have a right to hide from her that she has a grandson?", revealing Sophia and Edmund had a child together.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: In the novel, Lady Brockenhurst and Lady Templemore are on first-name terms... until Lady Templemore discovers that Lady Brockenhurst is encouraging Maria's romance with Charles Pope, to which Lady Templemore declares her christian name to only be used with friends. She lightens up by the end when she learns Charles' true nature.
* WhamLine:
** While arguing about Lady Brockenhurst, Anne Trenchard says "Do we have a right to hide from her that she has a grandson?", revealing Sophia and Edmund had a child together.
** In-universe when Anne reveals the truth about Charles to Lady Brockenhurst.
* WhamLine: While arguing about Lady Brockenhurst, Anne Trenchard says "Do we have a right to hide from her -->'''Anne''': At the Duchess's tea, you said that she has a grandson?", revealing Sophia when you and Edmund had a child together.your husband go, there will be nothing left of you.
-->'''Lady Brockenhurst''': I did.
-->'''Anne''': Well, that's not quite true.
* WhamLine:
** While arguing about Lady Brockenhurst, Anne Trenchard says "Do we have a right to hide from her that she has a grandson?", revealing Sophia and Edmund had a child together.
** In-universe when Anne reveals the truth about Charles to Lady Brockenhurst.
-->'''Lady Brockenhurst''': I did.
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* ASharedSuffering: Anne Trenchard and Lady Brockenhurst originally converse over the fact that each of them has lost a child.
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* ASharedSuffering: Anne Trenchard and Lady Brockenhurst originally converse over the fact that each of them has lost a child.child, which Lady Brockenhurst follows up with noting that she and her husband will be the last of their line. However, Anne knows that this statement is [[SecretLegacy not quite true]].
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Schmidt, the moneylender Stephen is indebted to, has a large dent in his forehead in the book which is absent in the miniseries.
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* DemotedToExtra: Billy, the Trenchards' senior footman in the novel who gets [[spoiler:promoted to butler after Turton's dismissal,]] is mostly silent, leaving the second footman Morris as the primary footman and introducing CanonForeigner Stan as a temporary second when the Trenchards stay at Glanville.
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* DemotedToExtra: Billy, the Trenchards' senior footman in the novel who gets [[spoiler:promoted to butler after Turton's dismissal,]] is mostly silent, leaving the second footman Morris as the primary footman and introducing CanonForeigner Stan as a temporary second footman when the Trenchards stay at Glanville.
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** In the novel, Lady Brockenhurst is introduced in the second chapter, as is Oliver's wife Susan.
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* SlouchOfVillainy: Stephen lounges into a couch at Brockenhurst House while attempting to blackmail Lady Brockenhurst.
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* SlouchOfVillainy: In the miniseries, Stephen Bellasis lounges into a couch at Brockenhurst House while attempting to blackmail Lady Brockenhurst.
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** The army officer who meets with John Bellasis has no name in the miniseries (named Hugo Wentworth in the novel and credits) and only one scene, but he informs John Bellasis that [[spoiler:Richard Bouverie was an ''actual'' clergyman]], meaning that Edmund and Sophia were legitimately married.
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** The army officer who meets with John Bellasis has no name in the miniseries (named Hugo Wentworth [[AllThereInTheManual in the novel and credits) credits]]) and only one scene, but he informs John Bellasis that [[spoiler:Richard Bouverie was an ''actual'' clergyman]], meaning that Edmund and Sophia were legitimately married.married.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: The DarkSecret at the heart of the story is that Sophia Trenchard bore a son by Viscount Bellasis after he was killed in the Battle of Waterloo.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: The DarkSecret at the heart of the story is that Sophia Trenchard bore a son by Viscount Bellasis after he was killed in the Battle of Waterloo.
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* UnnamedParent: Charles Pope's foster mother is only every known as Mrs. Pope.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: The main plot kicks off because Edmund neglects to tell Sophia that [[spoiler:the soldier he had marry them really was an ordained clergyman. When Sophia sees the priest who had married them dressed in his soldier's uniform later that night, she assumes that Edmund deceived her into a false marriage with help from a friend and neither man is able to rectify things before they're killed in battle]]. So Sophia is forced to give up her baby to avoid scandal, not knowing that [[spoiler:their union was legitimate]].
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* PoorCommunicationKills: The main plot kicks off because Edmund neglects to tell Sophia that [[spoiler:the soldier clergyman he had marry them was a soldier in his regiment who also really was an ordained clergyman. When Sophia sees the priest who had married them dressed in his soldier's uniform later that night, she assumes that Edmund deceived her into a false marriage with help from a friend and neither man is able to rectify things before they're killed in battle]]. So Sophia is forced to give up her baby to avoid scandal, not knowing that [[spoiler:their union was legitimate]].
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* PoorCommunicationKills: The main plot kicks off because Edmund neglects to tell Sophia that [[spoiler:the soldier he had marry them was an ordained clergyman. When Sophia sees them both later that night, she assumes that Edmund deceived her into a false marriage and neither man is able to rectify things before they're killed.]] So Sophia is forced to give up her baby to avoid scandal, not knowing that [[spoiler:their union was legitimate]].
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* PoorCommunicationKills: The main plot kicks off because Edmund neglects to tell Sophia that [[spoiler:the soldier he had marry them really was an ordained clergyman. When Sophia sees the priest who had married them both dressed in his soldier's uniform later that night, she assumes that Edmund deceived her into a false marriage with help from a friend and neither man is able to rectify things before they're killed.]] killed in battle]]. So Sophia is forced to give up her baby to avoid scandal, not knowing that [[spoiler:their union was legitimate]].
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* AdaptedOut: Billy, the Trenchards' senior footman who gets [[spoiler:promoted to butler after Turton's dismissal,]] is left out, leaving the second footman Morris as the lone footman and introducing CanonForeigner Stan as a temporary second.
* DemotedToExtra: Billy, the Trenchards' senior footman in the novel who gets [[spoiler:promoted to butler after Turton's dismissal,]] is mostly silent, leaving the second footman Morris as the primary footman and introducing CanonForeigner Stan as a temporary second when the Trenchards stay at Glanville.
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* DistantPrologue: The first chapter takes place in June 1815 before skipping ahead over 25 years later.
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* DistantPrologue: The first chapter takes place in June 1815 before skipping ahead over 25 years later.later to 1841.
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* UnexpectedInheritance: By the end of the story, [[spoiler:Charles Pope, a tradesman and presumably illegitimate child, is confirmed as the heir to his grandfather's earldom.]]
