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By Annie Gray
Published 2019
The British aristocracy adored France, and most of them spoke fluent French, an obligatory part of every budding lord or lady’s education. The French Riviera was stuffed with wealthy Brits who had been crucial in the area’s development as a holiday destination, and the playboy princes who would become Edward VII and Edward VIII both partied there regularly. It is the destination for Mary and Matthew’s honeymoon, and the place to which Violet flees during her row with Robert in season 6. Fre