15 Facts About Elizabeth Bellamy

Elizabeth Bellamy is a fictional character in the ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs, originally broadcast for five series from 1971 to 1975.

Elizabeth Bellamy grew up at 165, Eaton Place in fashionable Belgravia.

The spoiled, self-absorbed younger sister of James, Elizabeth Bellamy takes a somewhat fleeting, but serious, interest in various social causes, including socialism and the Suffragette movement.

Elizabeth Bellamy is close to the maid Rose, who frequently calls her "Miss Lizzie", even after marriage.

Elizabeth Bellamy was due to be presented to King Edward VII by her aunt Kate, but runs away from the ball.

Elizabeth Bellamy's maid Rose discovers that he is having an affair with the footman Alfred.

Elizabeth Bellamy is a member of the Young Women's Christian Fellowship, and while working with them in a soup kitchen, she sees the former housemaid Sarah, and saves her from poverty by arranging for her re-employment, as the scullery maid at 165 Eaton Place.

However, after an examination by a doctor, it is discovered that Elizabeth Bellamy is three to four months pregnant and she is forced by her father to divulge the identity of the father.

Later, Elizabeth Bellamy gives birth to a daughter, Lucy Elizabeth Bellamy, in a London nursing home.

Elizabeth Bellamy, lacking maternal feelings, is indifferent to the baby and content to have Lucy be brought up in the nursery by Sarah and the servants.

Elizabeth Bellamy becomes involved in the Suffragette movement, participating in an attack on an MP's house.

Elizabeth Bellamy soon starts an affair with Karekin, and he gives her a hat shop, which she names Madame Yvonne.

Elizabeth Bellamy had always made it clear that he was a philanderer.

Elizabeth Bellamy is last seen celebrating Lady Marjorie's birthday, about two years before Lady Marjorie dies in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.

Elizabeth Bellamy becomes entitled to the style 'The Honourable' when her father is raised to the peerage in 1917.