The King is coming to Downton Abbey – and upstairs and downstairs must make ready.

Four months after a teaser-trailer dropped before the upcoming big-screen version of the beloved TV series that ended in 2015, a new trailer presented at industry event CinemaCon reveals the film’s royal-visit plotline: It’s 1927 and King George V and Queen Mary are set to descend on the Abbey.

The teaser isn’t yet open to the public, but it opens with scenes to water the parched hearts of Abbey tragics, depicting call-bells trilling, crystal gleaming, velvet lawns forever and the grand dame herself—not Maggie Smith, we’ll get to her—rather, the fairytale Abbey (real-life Highclere Castle).

Cue sighs, and perhaps Waterford Crystal tumblers of gin.

“No maid, no nanny and no valet, even,” huffs Lord Grantham (Hugh Bonneville) in the trailer as his daughter, the scandalously independent Lady Edith (Laura Carmichael) arrives with her husband, Bertie (Harry Hadden-Paton).

With World War I behind them and the Great Depression looming, times have a-changed at the Abbey, where the aristocrats are soldiering on with, poor loves, fewer staff. Hence the summons for retired head butler Carson (Jim Carter) to help out for the monarch’s pop-in, lest cook Mrs Patmore (Lesley Nicol) throw in the tea towel.

Other returning cast favourites include Elizabeth McGovern as Lady Grantham, Michelle Dockery as the acerbic Lady Mary (Joanne Froggatt is also back as her loyal lady’s maid, Anna Bates) and the iconic Smith as the small-screen’s sharpest noble granny, who’s set to spar again with her cousin, Isobel (Penelope Wilton).

“Do you have enough clichés to get you through the visit?” smirks the countess in the trailer.

“If not, I’ll come to you,” bites back Isobel.

Can’t. Wait. In the meantime, here’s the abridged trailer version:

Across its six-season run, Downton Abbey proved itself to be much more than a deliciously escapist, posh soap opera (though, joyfully, it was all that, too).

Set between 1912 and 1925, the award-winning series tackled the gamut of modern-day issues; family, discrimination, sexual mores, infidelity, death and grief, the evolving role of women in society, workplace bullying, sexual assault, infertility and health crises.

With show creator Julian Fellowes also behind the feature-film script, we can expect more gritty themes amidst the opulence, hinted Allen Leech, who plays former chauffeur Tom Branson: “You’re going to have tears”.

As we count down to the film’s September 13 Australian premiere, let’s revisit Downton Abbey’s Top Five dramatic moments.

Matthew’s death – Season three

Moments after meeting his newborn son with Lady Mary, Matthew Crawley (Dan Stevens) is on his way back to Downton when he crashes his car and dies, in a twist that “[reduced] a nation to tears of dismay and disbelief,” wrote the UK’s Telegraph.

Anna Bates’ rape – Season four

Fans vented their fury after housemaid Anna Bates was bashed and raped in the servants’ quarters by a visiting valet in a confronting scene that Fellowes defended. “The whole point of the way we do things on Downton is we don’t do them gratuitously,” he said, after UK network ITV was inundated with complaints.

Lady Sybil’s death – Season three

After giving birth to her child with ex-chauffeur Branson – which caused its own shock waves – beautiful Lady Sybil (Jessica Brown Findlay) begins having violent seizures as her family looked on in horror. She died of eclampsia, and Downton plunged into mourning.

Lady Grantham’s miscarriage – Season one

Cora, Lady Grantham, is overjoyed to be expecting again, but miscarries after scheming lady’s maid Miss O’Brien leaves soap on the floor outside her bathtub and she slips.

Tommy kisses Jimmy – Season three (yep, lots happened Season 3)

After evil Miss O’Brien hints to valet Thomas that footman Jimmy returned his affections, Thomas sneaked into Jimmy’s room and kissed him as he sleeps. Jimmy responded angrily, and soon, the household turned against him.