The film tells the true life story of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was the great-great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales. In the film Knightley plays an aristocratic woman who ...
Even members of the ducal family have delighted in botany and natural history: Georgiana, the 5th Duchess, collected fossils and minerals and Emma Tennant, sister of the 11th Duke of Devonshire, has a ...
Georgiana Spencer became Duchess of Devonshire on her marriage to the Duke in 1774, at the height of the Georgian period, a period of fashion, decadence, and political change. Spirited and adored ...