Downton Abbey Season 3 SPOILER Roundup

There have been rumors and false spoilers adrift for a while now about what's to come in season three of Downton. I've been trying to weed through fact and fiction to compile a comprehensive list of factual spoilers.

Here's what has been confirmed so far:

• Mary & Matthew (Michelle Dockery & Dan Stevens) will be married. (Wedding Shoot Photos)
• Lady Cora's mother (Shirley MacLaine) will provide a cash infusion into the family coffers.
• The Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith) detests feeling needy to the American, which will make for some great sparks between them. The shows producer Rebecca Eaton states, “There are some wonderful scenes between Maggie and Shirley MacLaine — Shirley MacLaine being as ditsy as ever, and Maggie barely restraining her sneer in having to deal with this American.”
• The third season will be set during the Roaring 20s.
• There will be a birth and a death. Producer Rebecca Eaton reveals, "Somebody will be born, and somebody will die, somebody pretty key in the cast, unfortunately is not going to make it."
• Dan Stevens and Maggie Smith have yet to sign on for season 4.
• Matt Milne ("War Horse") has been cast as O'Brian's nephew, a new footman named Alfred.
• Ed Speleers has been cast as the second new footman, Jimmy.
• Cara Theobald will play a new kitchen maid named Ivy.
• Lucille Sharp will play Martha Levinson's (Shirley McLaine) lady's maid Miss Reid.

Anything else floating around out there I haven't been able to confirm and therefore won't post.

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The third season of "Downton" premieres in the U.K. in September and in the U.S. in January 2013. 

Sources: Wetpaint.com, socialitelife.com, Digital Spy