SPOILERS!!!
With Charles away, Diana has to deal with her future mother-in-law, Lady Wroughton, who is determined to control everything about the wedding. Lady Wroughton, who is still against the marriage, tells Beatty everything that she has already planned, and she says that Diana can have her sister Sadie as one of her bridesmaids but she has chosen the others. Diana is not happy about it, and when she and Lady Wroughton go to see the house in London where she and Charles will be living, she tells the older woman that she wants her cousins, Mary and Audrey, as her bridesmaids as well. At first, Lady Wroughton opposes the idea, but when Diana doesn't budge, she realises that she will have to give in.
Diana has got another run-in with Rupert, Charles's brother, who tells her that the marriage won't take place as from then to June many things can happen. I don't know if Rupert has planned something, but I'm afraid that he will be a problem for Diana.
David and his friend, Oliphant, are training to become officers. David is in love with his friend's sister, and then Oliphant, who realises that his friend is too fond of his sister, tells him that Sophy is walking out with another guy.
Laura, Edward's sister, is volunteering as a driver for the war effort alongside her friend Louisa. It seems that Louisa is not happy with the work they are doing. Then they see two women in uniform, wearing a badge with WPS, and they realise that they belong to the Women Police Service, which they had heard existed but they had always thought it was false. Now they plan to learn what they need to do to become policewomen. Louise is still struggling with her aunt, who is very strict, and even though Laura wants her to live with her, Louisa feels that her aunt won't allow her to do so.
Ethel, the Hunters' parlour maid, has received a parcel from the vicar in the village where she grew up. He comes to the house and is received by Beatty, and when the reverend tells her and Ethel that her mother has died, Beatty is surprised to see how cold Ethel reacts. It is then that Ethel says that she wasn't her mother but the person who raised her, and she doesn't want the parcel. Yet, she has to keep it, and in her room she sees that the parcel contains some objects, and there are also some letters from Edie, her real mother, and she hides them and thinks that she will burn them later.
Ethel continues to be a flirt, and she is now walking out with Phil, who works in a furniture factory, and she thinks that he could be a good husband. Then at a dance Andy Wood, the American officer who she was seeing until she discovered he was married, interrupts and makes her dance with him. Ethel knows that he is bad news, but she can't help but feel drawn to him. It is at the dance where there is announcement of a victory from the Brits. When Phil walks her home, he tells her that he is going to enlist the following week. So Ethel feels that once agains she is being abandoned by the war.
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