More than anything, we’re trying to find a way to understand what happened.’The series presents Jane as a complicated character. Although she was to continue exchanging birthday and Christmas cards with Fergie, Jane later said she never got over being fired. By the time she met businessman Tommy Cressman (played by Downton Abbey’s Ed Speleers) through friends in 1998, she was working for society jeweller Theo Fennell. They didn’t come, and Jane left the flat. I was interested in the arc of Jane’s life, where she goes from these lower-middle-class beginnings to Sarah Ferguson’s right-hand woman.

Source: Daily Mail February 14, 2026 14:34 UTC