The Duchess

 Tag Line: There were three people in her marriage
 Role: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
 Starring: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling
 Production Status: Completed
 Released: 12th September 2007 (USA), 5th September 2007 (UK)
 Directed By: Saul Dibb
 Writers:Jeffrey Hatcher (Screenplay) Amanda Foreman (Biography)
 Genre: Drama / History
 Official Site: UK - USA

Set at the end of the eighteenth century, The Duchess is the story of the beautiful and, glamorous Georgiana Spencer, the most fascinating woman of the age. While her beauty and charisma made her name, her extravagant tastes and appetite for gambling and love made her infamous. Married young to the older, distant Duke of Devonshire, intimate of ministers and princes, Georgiana became a fashion icon, a doting mother, a shrewd political operator and darling of the common people. But at the core of her story is a desperate search for love. From Georgiana’s passionate and doomed affair with Earl Grey to the complex ménage à trois with her husband and her best friend, Lady Bess Foster, The Duchess is a very contemporary tale of fame, notoriety and the search for love.

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Character Quotes


You can't ask me to battle nature in my own heart.
Georgiana, The Duchess of Devonshire: I fail to comprehend how far we are fully committed to the concept of freedom.
Sir Peter Teazle: Freedom in moderation.
Georgiana, The Duchess of Devonshire: The concept of freedom is an absolute.
Lady Spencer: All of London is talking. Georgiana, The Duchess of Devonshire: Oh, let them talk!

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