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There was a character who had been missing for many episodes of ‘Peaky Blinders’. Since season 4 we had not seen esme shelby, the widow of John Shelby (Joe Cole). But the return of the character played by Aimee Ffion Edwards is about to happen, as he returns to his in-laws in the sixth season, which Netflix will premiere on June 10 (the last season ended on the BBC on April 3).
And a curse is to blame for it.
the character of Esme we met him in the first season of fiction She was the daughter of the Lees, a family of Romanian gypsies with whom the Shelbys always had rows. In one of them, 11-year-old Finn Shelby almost lost his life. The leader of the Shelby clan, Tommy, comes up with a way to end the feud and rally the Lees to his cause: with an arranged marriage.
John had previously been married to a woman named Martha, who died before the start of the series. He was later tempted to marry a sex worker named Lizzie Stark, to help him with her offspring, four children, from her first marriage. But Tommy does not accept it. In return He proposes that he marry Esme.and thus ‘kill’ two birds with one stone.
an arranged wedding
At first, John was reluctant to marry a woman he didn’t know, but when the wedding day comes and he sees that Esme is young and prettyalready sees with better eyes the plans of his brother.
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In season 4, when Italian assassins hired by the Changretta family kill John, Esme, devastated by her husband’s death, leaves the Shelbys with their children to “live with decent people.”. And he curses that family, assuring that “they will have no peace.”
In season 6, Tommy’s daughter Ruby falls ill and raves words in Romani: “Tickna mora o’beng”. It is then that the leader of the Shelbys looks for Esme to return, since he believes that both he and his daughter are victims of that curse. And she the only one who can lift it.