Britain at Play?

Harry appoints Frank to be the store’s Head of Press and Print, and together they dream up the perfect promotion to celebrate the signing of the landmark Treaty of Versailles. Harry hopes the ‘Britain at Play’ spectacle will impress the Selfridges’ shareholders. But, as always, his arch nemesis Lord Loxley throws a spanner in the works by piling the pressure on Harry to start making profits soar.

Harry’s relationship with Nancy also hits a rocky patch after she tells him she wants to keep things purely professional, at least until the Selfridges Estate is finished. However, Harry’s determined not to let Nancy slip through his fingers and proposes. Nancy immediately says ‘Yes’.

Meanwhile, George is literally left holding the baby while Miss Mardle is at work. He makes an impassioned plea to Mr Grove urging him to change his mind about little Ernest’s future. Mr Grove is humbled and takes Ernest back.

Elsewhere Rosalie annoys Violette by trying to match-make her with French count Jacques De Sibour. And cute couple Gordon and Grace split up after Grace convinces herself that their different upbringings mean their relationship could never work.

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.