18th-century drama based on the tumultuous life of the Duchess of Devonshire, a bright, popular aristocrat who is trapped in a failed marriage and has to face personal conflicts. Show more Period ...

Though adored by the people, the Duchess of Devonshire (Keira Knightley) is not content to sit as a pretty figurehead. Determined to be a major player in affairs of state, she rises to the ...

Deborah Cavendish, the dowager duchess of Devonshire and the last of the six eccentric Mitford sisters, who has died aged 94, turned her husband’s ancestral estate into one of England’s grand ...

It's based on the 1998 book, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman, which tells the story of late 18th-century English aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire.

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 ...

Amanda Foreman is the award-winning author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire and A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War. Her next book The World Made by Women ...