The Duchess of Duke Street

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2x1
Family Matters
Episode overview
Louisa's only brother, ne'er do well Arthur, returns to London after a decade. Her mother pressures Louisa into offering him a job at the Bentinck, running the risk of alienating the rest of her staff.
2x2
Poor Catullus
Episode overview
When two high spirited Oxford students play a prank on Louisa, she goes along with the fun and finds a Professor of Classics pitching the woo to her. Meanwhile, Lord and Lady Haslemere come down from Yorkshire to shop for their London home.
2x3
A Lesson in Manners
Episode overview
Louisa takes a callow chauffeur in tow and tries to turn him into a 'proper gentleman,' when his kind, elderly and wealthy employer dies suddenly and leaves him the bulk of her estate.
2x4
Winter Lament
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Louisa visits Lord and Lady Haslemere in Yorkshire and finds a bleak and desperately unhappy household.
2x5
The Passing Show
Episode overview
Louisa urges Charlie to get on with his life and a smooth and very suave actor beds Violet, who promptly gets the sack.
2x6
Your Country Needs You
Episode overview
With the outbreak of the Great War, the staff are galvanized to help in the effort and keep the hotel running as usual. Louisa takes in a Belgian refugee, a master pastry chef. Charlie enlists and leaves a worried Louisa as he departs for France .
2x7
The Patriots
Episode overview
Louisa is concerned when a government official informs her that the Bentinck has become a spies nest and implicates a member of her staff.
2x8
The Reluctant Warrior
Episode overview
When the hotel sustains damage after it's grazed by a bomb, Ethel takes a shine to a conscientious objector, assigned to ferret out a potential UXB. Though nobody was injured, Starr, sadly, loses his beloved pooch in the rubble.
2x9
Tea and a Wad
Episode overview
Louisa brings a bit of England to France when the Major enlists her to fashion a tea and sandwich shop, military style and Charlie (Lord Haslemere) and an ecstatic Luisa agree to marry once the 'guns are silent.'
2x10
Shadows
Episode overview
Charlie returns to London and the Bentinck when he's been wounded and puts on a cheerful and brave face, but his situation is far more serious, as Louisa and the Major suspected.
2x11
Where There's a Will
Episode overview
With the war at an end, Louisa is at the precipice of an emotional collapse and financial ruin.
2x12
The Legion of the Living
Episode overview
Ghosts of Visits to Yorkshire Past interfere with key decisions Louisa must make in the present, chiefly, deciding what will be best for her daughter, Lottie and her future.
2x13
Lottie
Episode overview
While a few of the staff know of Lottie's origins, others have set their tongues wagging about just why this young girls seems to be staying at the Bentinck. Louisa wont put up with it .. show full overview
2x14
Blossom Time
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Lottie returns to the Bentinck from finishing school in Switzerland for a bit of a holiday and has her art teacher, Miss Olive Bradford, in tow. Lottie has become quite the young lady, .. show full overview
2x15
Poor Little Rich Girl
Episode overview
Louisa and Lottie are at loggerheads -- Louisa wants her daughter to be a proper lady, as befits the daughter of a Viscount. Lottie is confident that she has the talent and the looks to become a major musical star of the London stage.
2x16
Ain't We Got Fun
Episode overview
Change is in the air at the hotel and in the lives of its many residents. An American writer, Sophie Applegate, would like to pen a book about Louisa's life, successes and failures. .. show full overview

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