s01 war story


in season 1, toward the end, theres a scene with harry and his mother discussing the fact she lied to him about his father dying in war but harry knows the think that that aint so


but US war are they talking about???


the civil war would have been too many years prior according to 1910ish timeline the scene takes place

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In real life, his dad did fight in the Union army, and abandoned the family at the end of the war.

Mr. Selfridges was 51 when he opened his store in 1909. He was about 8 years old when his dad left the family.



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