She refuses to acknowledge him as the new heir, declaring that he was "not one of us" and could "barely hold a knife properly".
Mary's relationship with the new heir, her distant cousin Matthew Crawley, who is not an aristocrat, begins coldly as she overhears him complaining to his mother that he expects the family will "push" one of the daughters on him. Her infuriated mother and head housemaid Anna help her carry his body out of her bedroom and back to his room in the bachelor's corridor in order to try to prevent a public scandal that would ruin her marriage prospects.
She herself is seduced by a visitor to the house, Napier's friend Ottoman attaché Kemal Pamuk, who suddenly dies in her bed. Mary's parents and grandmother focus on finding suitors for Mary, including the Duke of Crowborough, Evelyn Napier, and Anthony Strallan. The family had arranged that Mary would marry Patrick, second in line to the title after James, but Mary did not have strong feelings for him and questions whether she must even wear black mourning clothes since the engagement was never publicly announced. The entail requires that the family's estate, incorporating her mother's large marriage dowry, along with the title, pass to male heirs only. The news of the deaths of her two cousins, James and Patrick, is a shock to her because it disrupts the family's strategy for dealing with the entail. Rose's mother, the Marchioness of Flintshire, is her father's first cousin. She has a second cousin-in-law in Rose's husband Atticus Aldridge, and their daughter Victoria Aldridge is her second cousin-once-removed. She is second cousins with Lady Rose Aldridge, along with her sisters Lady Annabelle and James MacClare, Earl of Newtonmore. She also has an uncle on her mother's side, Harold Levinson. Her father's sister Lady Rosamund Painswick and her deceased husband Marmaduke Painswick are Mary's aunt and uncle. Mary married Henry Talbot in 1925, and they have a daughter, Caroline Talbot, in 1926. Shortly after their son's birth, Matthew was killed in a car accident. She was married to Matthew Crawley and with him had a son, George Crawley, in 1921.
1891) is the eldest daughter of Robert the Earl of Grantham and Cora Crawley, the Countess of Grantham she is the sister of Lady Edith Pelham and the late Lady Sybil Branson, granddaughter of Violet Crawley, sister-in-law of Tom Branson and Herbert (Bertie) Pelham, and the aunt to her nieces, Sybbie Branson and Edith's daughter, Marigold (last name undetermined). Lady Mary Josephine Talbot (née Crawley b. " You'll be my Mary always because mine is the true Mary." -Mary's first husband, Matthew Crawley, to her Maud Bagshaw (paternal second cousin once removed) Victoria Rachel Cora Aldridge (paternal second cousin once removed) Reginald Crawley (third cousin once removed / father-in-law, via Matthew) † Isobel Grey (third cousin-in-law once removed by Isobel's first marriage / mother-in-law, via Matthew) Richard Grey (stepfather-in-law, via Matthew / godfather) Larry Grey (stepbrother-in-law, via Matthew) Timothy Grey (stepbrother-in-law, via Matthew) Amelia Grey (stepsister-in-law by marriage, via Matthew) Hubert Shackleton (uncle-in-law) † Prudence Shackleton (aunt-in-law) Philip, Lord Shackleton (cousin-in-law) Philip's wife, Lady Shackleton (cousin-in-law) Affiliation Patrick Crawley (paternal second cousin) Roberta (paternal grandaunt) Gordon (paternal granduncle) Cousin Freddie (cousin maternal or paternal) Susan MacClare (paternal first cousin once removed) Hugh MacClare (paternal first cousin-in-law once removed) Rose Aldridge (paternal second cousin) Atticus Aldridge (paternal second cousin-in-law) James Crawley (paternal first cousin once removed) Tom Branson (brother-in-law) Sybbie Branson (niece/goddaughter) Herbert Pelham (brother-in-law) Marigold (niece) Patrick Crawley (paternal grandfather) † Violet Crawley (paternal grandmother) Isidore Levinson (maternal grandfather) † Martha Levinson (maternal grandmother) Rosamund Painswick (paternal aunt) Marmaduke Painswick (paternal uncle by marriage) † Harold Levinson (maternal uncle)
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