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Enid Winterton, née Turner is the young wife of the wealthy Joshua Winterton.

Enid Turner was once the ambitious lady's maid of Bertha Russell. She was grudgingly accepting of her position in the Russell house, but does not intend to be a servant all her days. Her loyalty was skin deep, and she is always looking for a way out. After leaving the Russells, she married her way into elite society.

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Early life[]

Turner's previous mistress was of the "old money" of New York, and died of a heart attack. She was subsequently hired by Bertha Russell, who belonged to the nouveau riche, but wishes to learn the ways of the old people from her.[1]

Season 1[]

Turner begins to hint at her attraction to Mr. George Russell. While Mrs. Russell is preparing for a party that none of the old money families end up attending, she speaks to the other servants of her disdain for Bertha, and her obviously gaudy and superficial ways. Turner openly mocks Mrs. Russell to the other servants after almost no-one attends her At Home party.[1] After this, she continues her less than subtle attempts to attract Mr. Russell, eventually sneaking into his bed at night and outright offering to become his mistress. George refuses her, saying that he loves his wife, and sends her out of his room, claiming that it was only because of Bertha’s fondness of her that he does not reveal the truth and have her fired.[2]

Season 2[]

Bertha Russell tries to meet Mr. Winterton and his new wife in Newport, hoping they will be supporters of the Metropolitan Opera House. However, she is shocked to find that the elderly Joshua Winterton's new wife is her former lady's maid, Turner.[3]

The two become enemies and Enid gleefully taunts Bertha's about her attempted seduction of her husband, George. Bertha confronts George and doesn't speak to him for a time. An acquaintance of hers, the Duke of Buckingham, is invited to stay at the Winterton's home, but is undercut by the scheming Bertha. This sends Enid into a vicious temper tantrum where she threatens revenge against her former employer (Bertha had already got one up on Enid by exposing her former job as a lady's maid, which caused Mrs. Astor to take their box at the Academy of Music).

During a formal dinner honoring the Duke, she enlisted the help of a footman she knew from her days as a servant and a sous chef that worked for her husband in an effort to sabotage the dinner and humiliate Bertha. However, thanks to Church, Borden, and Watson, the sabotage was exposed, stopped, and the conspirators being severely dealt with whilst Enid was left with egg on her face.

Infuriated, she convinces Mr. Gilbert to give her and Mr. Winterton Bertha's box as payment for convincing all their friends to desert the academy of music, but George undercuts his former employee, allowing his wife to retain her box whilst relegating Enid into another box. She's is infuriated but realized she was not on the same par as her former mistress.

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