It's the fifth and final week at Eggleston Hall and only three ladettes are left at the Finishing School. Now they face the ultimate challenge: to "come out" at a Debutantes' Ball. Wearing dresses they have made Eggleston Hall the ladettes will each make an entrance and be judged on their poise, grooming, confidence and elocution by a selection of aristocrats including Lady Alexandra Roche, Sir David Roche and Sir Tobias Clarke. The ladettes will come out alongside seven real debutantes and failure to measure up will result in public humiliation. It's the final test of whether Finishing School has worked and at the end of it one of the ladettes will be declared the winner. In addition to preparing for the Ball the girls must pass exams in all subjects in order to graduate. They've got just four days left to perfect their flower-arranging, elocution, deportment, and to make a gigantic seven-tiered cake which will be on display at the ball threatening to collapse spectacularly if they get it wrong. The Ball is being held at a grand country house in North Yorkshire. As the first debutantes make an entrance the staff are in despair: the competition looks insurmountable. But as the ladettes make an entrance in their stunning Lindka Cierach ball dresses they are truly unrecognisable. The girls have performed better than any of the teachers expected and the aristocrats are suitably impressed. And after five weeks the people who sent them to Eggleston Hall in the first place - their parents - arrive at the Ball to behold the finished articles. All that remains is for the teachers to decide who shall be declared the winner.

It is now the final week at Eggleston Hall and with just three ladettes left, the competition is stronger than ever. There has been a huge transformation in the girls over the last five weeks and now that it is coming to the end they definitely feeling the pressure. The week will be one long test for the girls; at the end of which they will face the ultimate challenge: to ‘come out’ at their ‘Graduation Ceremony’. The ceremony will be based on the Queen Charlotte Ball started by King George III in the 18th Century, which was still one of the major events of the London calendar for debutantes in the 1950’s. The big difference for our ladettes is only one girl will emerge victorious. Dance is the first lesson of the week. The girls have to practice a waltz for the graduation ceremony and already Holly is throwing tantrums. In elocution the girls are told they will each have to make a 5 minute speech which strikes fear in the heart of Romford Rebel Nicole. On the eve before the graduation ceremony the girls join the teachers for supper and they reflect on what they will take away from the hall. One of the biggest revelation is for binge drinking tiny tearaway Holly who has finally realised that “I can have one or two and still be myself and enjoy myself without falling everywhere and making a plonker of myself I suppose”. The morning of the Graduation Ceremony finally arrives. Just like the debutants of the 1950’s; each girl much execute three elements with meticulous precision: a staircase walk; an audience with members of the aristocracy and a waltz. On top of that they have to perform their nerve-wracking speeches. The girls are pampered and preened all morning to achieve the Queen Charlotte Debutant look but Louise is not impressed with the results and throws a fit. The waltzes are a success and the moving and accomplished speeches leave most of the audience and staff in tears. Finally the teachers retire to decide who is to win the honour of being called a true lady. A decision has to be made and after a long discussion with many disagreements Gill Harbourd makes her choice and there is elation as the winner is revealed.

It’s the fourth week of term at Eggleston hall and this week the Ladettes face their first ever public end of week task. They and the eligible bachelors have been invited by Lady Amber Leighton to attend a luncheon at an international polo match. One of them will also be required to present a prize and make a speech. If recent behaviour is anything to go by it could be an unmitigated disaster. After a tense start to the week, a lesson with bohemian art teacher Susan Wilson should be a perfect tonic but today they have to paint portraits of the School Principal. Unbeknown to the girls the one who shows the most potential will be sent on a date with a bachelor of her choice. Simone refuses to apply herself and gives Mrs Harboard a green face. Nicole wins and chooses to dine with the rakish Jonathan Saxby. Being the penultimate week competition between the girls is growing. A simple dressing down from Mrs Shrarger about their messy dorms results in a screaming match between rivals Louise and Nicole. Nicole’s date is a romantic triumph and Jonathan Saxby is genuinely impressed, “She oozed confidence tonight” and Nicole delighted in the glamour of the evening “It’s like being treated like a little princess you always dream of things like this”. The other ladettes who have been allowed down the pub are in a decidedly less sophisticated frame of mind. Binge drinking is the order of the night but 27 year old Simone Webber refuses to join in. “ I have been here 4 weeks now and during that 4 weeks I have realised a lot of things about myself and it’s beginning to frighten me a little bit because I have realised what a prick I have been over the years”. Cockney rebel Holly Clements is far from impressed with the new sober Simone and instead instigates drunken East End style knee’s up with the locals. On the girl’s late return, relations between drunken Holly and abstemious Simone flare up resulting in Mrs Harboard having to step in to stop a fight. The day of the polo match arrives and it’s Simone who has been chosen to make the speech. The girls are on best behaviour and Holly manages not to drink and has a revelation “ I don’t need drink to have a laugh I can have a laugh without having a few” Simones pre-speech nerves result in a few social misdemeanours but she redeems herself by delivering a flawless speech. The whole day is a resounding success. The following morning the girls face the ordeal of the weekly assessments – and this week the price of failure is especially harsh. The girl who is expelled today will lose the chance to attend the final week’s graduation ceremony.

Eggleston hall finishing school re opens and invites some of Britons worst Ladettes to enrol. As the new ladettes arrive, the Eggleston hall teachers soon realise that they have been set a huge challenge. The new girls are stripped of all their ‘ladette’ clothes and piercings, and from now on at all times must wear the Eggleston hall Uniform, Tweed suits and pearls. As the strict regime of lessons begins the ladettes find that finishing school is going to be a lot harder than they had anticipated. Liz Brewers sexual etiquette lessons tug a few unexpected heartstrings with Becky Squire, self confessed man eater- who vows to change for good. The ladettes introduction to high society comes in an invitation from the Cunliffe-Listers to a shooting weekend at their grand stately home, Burton Agnes Hall. The lure of alcohol and a wide selection of eligible bachelors is too much for some of the girls, who quickly revert to type. Back at Eggleston hall, the first of the weekly assessments are a lot harder than the ladettes had imagined, the teachers do not hold back in their criticism. The first ladette is asked to leave.

This week in Ladette to Lady the girls have there biggest challenge yet, to host a dinner party for over twenty guests. The girls will have to cook a three course meal, including home made ravioli and engastrated fowl, a goose stuffed with eight other birds. The Ladettes are given a makeover, hairdressers to royalty Judy and Mimo Russo arrive at Eggleston Hall to transform them into sophisticated ladies. But a pub trip jeopardises 1 girls' opportunity to join the dinner party festivities and socialise with the guests. And yet another girl will be asked to leave Eggleston Hall.

In Episode 3 of Ladette to Lady, the remaining 6 ladettes are set their most demanding and exciting challenge yet, they have the chance to be chalet girls in Switzerland. In true Eggleston Hall tradition the head of a Chalet girl recruitment company, Cleone Stenhouse returns to the finishing school after many years, to recruit some new blood. Cleone only has three jobs in Verbier, so the remaining three girls willl have to stay at Eggleston Hall. The girls learn to make beds, clean and cook in altitude, in preparation for their interviews with Cleone. Clara, Victoria and Fran are ecstatic when they hear that they have got the jobs. They set off to the Ski resort of Verbier. The chosen ladettes soon find out that they have got their work cut out being a chalet girl, but still manage to indulge in some Apres Ski. Meanwhile the girls back at Eggleston have been set a strict regime of work and are rewarded with a quiet drink at the pub, but the girls just can't resist the lure of the local nightclub and local men... Once again another girl is asked to leave.