How Laura Carmichael Became the Accidental Empress of Britain’s Cultural Afterlife
**The Aristocrat Who Outlived the Empire: Laura Carmichael’s Accidental Ascendancy in the Post-Downton World** From the crumbling drawing rooms of fictional Yorkshire to the very real rubble of global prestige, Laura Carmichael has spent the past decade embodying the slow-motion train wreck of British soft power. While her Downton Abbey character Edith Crawley spent six…