🚨 THEY’RE GETTING MARRIED?!?!
James Beaufort just dropped to one knee in the pouring rain and asked Ruby Bell to be his WIFE – and the Maxton Hall Season 3 trailer is PURE EMOTIONAL TERROR 😭💍🔥
Cordelia’s will? Forged. Mortimer? About to lose EVERYTHING. Lydia’s twins? Drama bombs. But NOTHING hits harder than James whispering “Marry me before the world tears us apart” while Ruby’s Oxford dreams hang by a thread. This isn’t a fairy-tale romance… this is a desperate, soaked-to-the-bone VOW in the middle of a war zone.
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Forget everything you thought you knew about enemies-to-lovers. Prime Video just detonated the most chaotic trailer in teen drama history: the second official look at Maxton Hall Season 3, released December 1, 2025, and it’s centered around one earth-shattering moment: James Beaufort (Damian Hardung) proposing to Ruby Bell (Harriet Herbig-Matten) in the middle of a thunderstorm. The teaser, cheekily captioned “They’re Getting Married!” by Prime’s social team, has already smashed 18 million views in under 12 hours and sent #JamesAndRubyWedding trending worldwide.
The two-minute trailer opens exactly where the first teaser left off: Ruby suspended from Maxton Hall, her Oxford scholarship in tatters after Mortimer’s (Fedja van Huêt) vicious smear campaign. James and Lydia (Sonja Weißer), freshly disinherited by what they believe is their late mother Cordelia’s final will, are financially cut off and publicly humiliated. But the new footage flips the script: legal documents burn in slow motion while Percy the chauffeur (Hyun Wanner) drops the bombshell line, “Cordelia never signed that will. Someone forged her name the night she died.” Cue absolute pandemonium.
The trailer then rockets through rapid-fire chaos:
James storming his father’s boardroom, slamming down evidence of forgery.
Lydia, heavily pregnant with twins, collapsing in tears as Mortimer snarls, “You were never my children.”
Ruby secretly meeting with a private investigator in an Oxford library, clutching a flash drive labeled “Beaufort Fraud 2009-2025.”
And the moment that broke the internet: James, soaked and shaking, dropping to one knee on the rain-drenched Maxton Hall lacrosse field at midnight. “I don’t have an empire anymore,” he tells Ruby. “I don’t have a name that means anything. All I have is you. Marry me. Marry me before they take you too.” The camera spins as Ruby, mascara streaking, whispers a barely audible “…Yes” before the screen cuts to black on church bells and blood-red roses.
Fans are losing their minds. Within hours, TikTok was flooded with “If Ruby doesn’t walk down that aisle in a black wedding dress I riot” edits, while Reddit’s r/MaxtonHall exploded with 40k new members overnight.
Showrunners Martin Schreier and Tarek Roehlinger confirmed to Variety last month that Season 3, adapting Mona Kasten’s finale novel Save Us, is indeed structured around the question of whether James and Ruby’s love can survive the total collapse of the Beaufort fortune. “The wedding isn’t the happy ending,” Schreier teased. “It’s the detonation point. Everything that happens after the ‘I do’ is the real war.”
Behind the scenes, the proposal scene was shot over three freezing nights in October 2025 at Marienburg Castle, with Hardung and Herbig-Matten reportedly doing 27 takes of the knee-drop because rain machines kept malfunctioning. “We were hypothermic but it was magic,” Herbig-Matten posted on Instagram alongside a blurry BTS photo of Hardung wrapped in blankets between takes. The wedding dress teased in the final frame (an off-the-shoulder black lace Alexander McQueen custom) reportedly cost €180,000 and was insured separately, according to German tabloid Bunte.
The supporting cast is equally explosive. Sonja Weißer’s Lydia goes full mama-bear, threatening to expose Mortimer’s decades-long affair if he doesn’t reinstate the twins. New recurring player Justus Riesner appears as Elias von Rosenheim, a charming Oxford law student who offers Ruby a full-ride scholarship, but only if she testifies against the Beauforts in a corporate fraud trial. Meanwhile, Cyril (Ben Felipe) and Angus (Martin Neuhaus) launch an underground fight club in the abandoned Maxton Hall stables to raise legal funds, because of course they do.
Perhaps the darkest twist: a 10-second flashback shows a younger Mortimer (played by body double) hovering over a dying Cordelia in hospital, holding a pen over unsigned papers. The implication is chilling, and Prime Video immediately slapped an “Intense Themes” warning on the trailer.
The season is now confirmed for six extended episodes (the shortest season yet, but each clocks in at 60-70 minutes), premiering November 2026 to coincide with the second anniversary of Season 2. Prime is already teasing a potential Season 4 (“Maxton Hall: Oxford Years”) if viewership matches expectations, though Kasten herself told *Bravo Germany, “Save Us was always meant to be the end of this chapter. After the wedding… their story becomes something else entirely.”
Critics who’ve seen the first two-episode premiere at a Berlin screening last week are calling it “Succession with hornier teenagers and better soundtracks.” One Screen Daily reviewer wrote: “The proposal isn’t romantic; it’s a suicide pact dressed in couture. And it’s the most honest thing this show has ever done.”
Social media is already split into warring factions:
#TeamRunRuby (they’re too young, he’s toxic, she deserves Oxford without baggage)
#TeamMarryThatMan (it’s endgame or nothing)
And the dark horse #TeamBurnItAllDown (hoping the wedding gets literally torched).
Whatever side you’re on, one thing is undeniable: when Ruby Bell walks down that aisle (in black lace, blood roses in her hair, Mortimer in handcuffs in the pews), television history will be made.
Prime Video has scheduled a global live watch party for the finale, complete with real-time voting on alternate endings, because apparently they want to break the internet completely.
Maxton Hall Season 3: This isn’t a love story anymore. It’s a coronation. And someone’s not making it out alive.
