All About Julian Fellowes
Julian Fellowes was born on August 17, 1949, in Cairo, Egypt. His father, Peregrine Edward Launcelot Fellowes, was a diplomat working for the British embassy at the time. And high profile careers ran in the family, his great-grandfather, John Wrightson, was the founder of the Downton Agricultural College.
Fellowes childhood home was at Wetherby Place in South Kensington until he was about ten when they moved to a house in Chiddingly, East Sussex. The new house was conveniently placed as it was close to London where Julian's father now worked for Shell, an oil and gas company. Fellowes once said of his father that he was "of that last generation of men who lived in a pat of butter without knowing it. My mother put him on a train on Monday mornings and drove up to London in the afternoon. At the flat she'd be waiting in a snappy little cocktail dress with a delicious dinner and drink. Lovely, really."
In the village where they lived there was another family, the Kingsleys. Fellowes said that he learned from David Kingsley, who was head of British Lion Films, that you could make a living in the film business.
Fellowes was educated at various private schools, then at Ampleforth College before attending Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he joined the comedy group, the Footlights. Afterwards he continued his studies at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
He started out his career acting in small parts in various television shows and movies, including a recurring role in Monarch of the Glen. In the 90's he started to write TV adaptations of novels. Following some successes in that area he had his breakthrough producing the screenplay for Gosford Park. He earned several awards in recognition including the Academy Award for best original screenplay. He's continued his work and received massive success when he created and produced the hit show Downton Abbey, in which his wife was story editor.
Fellowes married Emma Joy Kitchener on April 28, 1990, and later in 1998 the Fellowes changed their surname to to Kitchener-Fellowes. Emma was a Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Michael of Kent as well as a great-great-niece of Herbert, 1st Earl of Kitchener. As such she should have succeeded her uncle as Countess Kitchener, but was unable to because of the so far unchanged rules of royal succession for royal peerages, until in 2012 the Queen issued a Royal Warrant of Precedence which gave Lady Fellowes the rank and style that she would have had if her father had survived his brother and become Earl. The couple had one son, born in 1991, the Honourable Peregrine Charles Morant Kitchener-Fellowes.
Fellowes is Lord of the manor of Tattershall in Lincolnshire, and he President of the Society of Dorset Men. In 2009 he also became Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset.
Fellowes childhood home was at Wetherby Place in South Kensington until he was about ten when they moved to a house in Chiddingly, East Sussex. The new house was conveniently placed as it was close to London where Julian's father now worked for Shell, an oil and gas company. Fellowes once said of his father that he was "of that last generation of men who lived in a pat of butter without knowing it. My mother put him on a train on Monday mornings and drove up to London in the afternoon. At the flat she'd be waiting in a snappy little cocktail dress with a delicious dinner and drink. Lovely, really."
In the village where they lived there was another family, the Kingsleys. Fellowes said that he learned from David Kingsley, who was head of British Lion Films, that you could make a living in the film business.
Fellowes was educated at various private schools, then at Ampleforth College before attending Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he joined the comedy group, the Footlights. Afterwards he continued his studies at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
He started out his career acting in small parts in various television shows and movies, including a recurring role in Monarch of the Glen. In the 90's he started to write TV adaptations of novels. Following some successes in that area he had his breakthrough producing the screenplay for Gosford Park. He earned several awards in recognition including the Academy Award for best original screenplay. He's continued his work and received massive success when he created and produced the hit show Downton Abbey, in which his wife was story editor.
Fellowes married Emma Joy Kitchener on April 28, 1990, and later in 1998 the Fellowes changed their surname to to Kitchener-Fellowes. Emma was a Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Michael of Kent as well as a great-great-niece of Herbert, 1st Earl of Kitchener. As such she should have succeeded her uncle as Countess Kitchener, but was unable to because of the so far unchanged rules of royal succession for royal peerages, until in 2012 the Queen issued a Royal Warrant of Precedence which gave Lady Fellowes the rank and style that she would have had if her father had survived his brother and become Earl. The couple had one son, born in 1991, the Honourable Peregrine Charles Morant Kitchener-Fellowes.
Fellowes is Lord of the manor of Tattershall in Lincolnshire, and he President of the Society of Dorset Men. In 2009 he also became Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset.
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