My afternoon as Mr Darcy at Wicklow’s Victorian tea room loved by ‘Downton Abbey’ and ‘Bridgerton’ fans

Standing in a quaint Wicklow tea parlour, sporting a top hat and bearing a cane, with Strauss playing softly in the background as I recited poetry to the proprietor dressed in full Victorian attire, all thoughts of the regular lunch hour rush faded, replaced by the unhurried elegance of a bygone era.