🚨 MAXTON HALL S3 TRAILER JUST MURDERED EVERYONE: James Beaufort is no longer the golden prince – he’s the broken heir watching his empire, his family, and Ruby burn to the ground in front of him. 🔥👑
Mortimer’s final power move: disinherit James unless he marries into money and destroys Ruby’s Oxford future for good.
Boardrooms exploding. A leaked recording of James confessing he’d “give up everything for her.” Ruby rising while James falls – literally one shot of him on his knees in the rain begging “Don’t make me choose.”
And the last 10 seconds: James signing the papers that end the Beaufort name as we know it, while Ruby walks into Oxford alone.
X is screaming “save him” vs “let him fall.” This isn’t a redemption arc – it’s a tragedy in designer suits.
Click before the spoilers finish you off. 👇
Prime Video detonated the internet at 8 a.m. CET today with the first full trailer for Maxton Hall Season 3, subtitled The Fall of James Beaufort. In a blistering 2-minute-19-second assault of orchestral stabs and shattered glass sound design, the streamer confirmed what the fandom feared after Season 2’s soul-crushing finale: James Beaufort (Damian Hardung) is about to lose everything—his inheritance, his name, and possibly the only person who ever saw the boy behind the crown.
The trailer opens on a single, devastating image: James standing alone in the Beaufort boardroom, back to the camera, as Mortimer Beaufort (Fedja van Huêt) slides a stack of legal documents across the mahogany table. Mortimer’s voice is ice: “Sign, or the empire your grandfather bled for dies with you.” Cut to the title card in blood-red lettering: THE FALL OF JAMES BEAUFORT.
What follows is merciless.
James discovering his trust fund has been frozen overnight.
A tabloid front page screaming “BEAUFORT HEIR DISOWNED” while paparazzi swarm Maxton Hall’s gates.
Lydia (Sonja Weißer) sobbing in a police station after her affair with Graham blows up into a full criminal investigation.
Ruby (Harriet Herbig-Matten), now at Oxford, watching the chaos on a library TV—until her scholarship is suddenly “under review” by a mysterious donor… who just happens to sit on the Beaufort board.
The trailer’s centerpiece is a rain-soaked confrontation on the Oxford campus bridge at night. James, soaked and unshaven, corners Ruby outside the Radcliffe Camera. “I’m giving it all up,” he rasps, dropping to his knees. “The money, the name, everything—just don’t make me live without you.” Ruby’s response is quiet steel: “You never had to choose between me and your empire, James. You just never chose me first.” The camera spins 360° around them as students film on their phones—the moment instantly goes viral with the hashtag #TheFallOfJames.
Showrunner Mia Janin, adapting the final book Save Us with a darker, more ruthless lens, told press: “Season 3 is the tragedy the first two seasons were always building toward. James spent two years believing love could coexist with power. This is the year he learns the price.”
New cast members sharpen the blade:
Oscar nominee Tom Glynn-Carney as Felix Ellington, the ruthless fiancé Mortimer hand-picks for a merger marriage.
Eve Best as Lady Beaumont, Mortimer’s sister and the silent majority shareholder who finally speaks.
Myha’la Herrold as Briana Chen, the cutthroat Oxford prodigy who offers Ruby a dangerous alliance against the Beauforts.
The trailer saves its cruelest twist for the final 30 seconds: James in a sleek London penthouse, signing away his voting shares while Lydia begs him to stop. The pen scratches. Cut to black. A single line from Ruby’s voiceover: “Some kings abdicate. Some are executed.”
X is apocalyptic. #TheFallOfJamesBeaufort trended worldwide within 20 minutes, spawning 5.1 million posts. TikTok edits of the bridge scene set to Hozier’s “Take Me to Church” and Ethel Cain’s “Ptolemaea” have already hit 40 million views combined. Hardung himself posted a black screen on Instagram with the caption “see you at the bottom.”
All six episodes drop March 26, 2026. Early projections have it obliterating Season 2’s numbers. The prince is falling—and this time, no one’s catching him.
