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 ...

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 ...

It seems like in the last few years Keira Knigtley has been changing out one lavish epoch dress to slip into another. When we heard her latest venture, The Duchess, was a historical film we couldn ...

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 ...