At the age of 17, Georgiana Spencer is married to the Duke of Devonshire. She soon realizes that hers is to be a loveless marriage and her only purpose in the arrangement is to provide her husband with a male heir. She hasn't much good fortune on that front, producing two daughters and having several miscarriages as well and it is many years before she succeeds. What relationship she does have with her husband breaks down completely when he begins what proves to be a lifelong affair with her best friend, Bess Foster. She does make a life for herself, becoming quite active in politics and the ... fashion icon of her day.
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Plumed feathers, powdered wigs and corseted libidos abound in The Duchess, but for all its luscious period trappings and Keira Knightley's spirited take on the title role, Saul Dibb's handsome biopic reveals little about how Georgiana Spencer Cavendish became one of 18th-century London's most celebrated and influential aristocrats. Reducing a complex portrait to a prototypical tale of passion suppressed by loveless matrimony and the sexist nature of the times, this upscale but undistinguished romantic drama should primarily court femme arthouse auds when it opens Sept. 5 in Blighty. After its Toronto gala, Paramount Vantage unveils the film Sept. 19 Stateside.<...
Duchess, The Keira Knightley lends a touch of elegance to this true-life story of the bed-hopping bluebloods who were ancestors of the late Princess Diana
Just months after Diana's death in 1997, history buff Amanda Foreman made the best-seller list with her biography of Duchess Georgiana of Devonshire. She also scooped the Whitbread Prize and sold the film rights.
The tabloid appeal of the biography is due to how the extraordinary lives of these two women, Georgiana and Diana, echo each other across a two century gap. Aside from being born into the Spencer family at Althorp, both were celebrated beauties who, after marrying into the higher echelons of society, wilted in the glar...
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