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In series 1, Edmund split his time between Westminster and the village. Ruthless and selfish, he admired his most. Out of everyone in the village, Edmund was aware of the realities of the war being fought in France from information he received in the House of Commons.

Since the death of his father, Lord Allingham, Edmund has taken on the role of head of the house. Ruthless and ambitious, he sets his sights on becoming the next Home Secretary. His mother, , is determined to see him married and produce the next Allingham heir.

"Edmund is an entrepreneur who is extremely driven and front footed. He has a strong focus on maintaining financial stability for himself and his family and achieves this through any means – whether politics or business. Edmund has a very close relationship with his mother, Clem (Juliet Stevenson). I admire Juliet hugely and it was a great experience to be able to work with her.

"I absolutely love doing period dramas - this is my eighth - and they have ranged from Emma to Crime and Punishment. I love the etiquette and dress and how people lived in the early 20th Century. A lot changed; the suffragette movement became stronger, technology developed at an extraordinary pace and the class system was completely different to what we have now.

"I’d never actually filmed in Derbyshire before The Village, but I was brought up only an hour away from where we were filming. So it was nice to ‘come home’."