Iconic TV MUMS
There are scary ones, slobby ones and downright soppy ones. There may be some you secretly wish were your own – and others that make you thankful they’re not! Here, in honour of Mother’s Day, we bring you a round-up of TV’s most memorable mums.
LADY VIOLET CRAWLEY
(Dame Maggie Smith)
Downton Abbey
Always witty, occasionally wise, her caustic one-liners make us hoot with laughter, while feeling relieved we will never have to endure sitting beside her at dinner. When daughter-in-law Cora considers sending her daughter to an aunt in America, saying ‘She could get to know New York’, Lady V retorts, ‘I don’t think things are quite that desperate.’
