Dame Maggie Smith has revealed she preferred playing Miss Mary Shepherd to Downton Abbey's Lady Violet Crawley, because the contemporary … | more… https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/uk-news/2015/10/13/why-dame-maggie-prefers-playing-homeless-miss-shepherd-to-lady-violet/&ct=ga&cd=CAIyHGVlODAyMzA4NTkzYTU2NGY6Y28udWs6ZW46R0I&usg=AFQjCNEuH6yYucpj6pb8QjnRvhAAHVYEgw