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The film deals with the concept of the It Girl in royalty long before Diana ever existed. The Duchess of Devonshire Georgiana Spencer was the original It girl. She was also ravishing, glamorous and adored by an entire country. She used her abilities like outwitting her aristocratic men who surrounded her by out gambling them and even getting less wasted than them. She brought in a lot of changes to the country with ability to find her own way to be true to her heart and loyal to her duty, the resulting controversies and convoluted liaisons would leave all of London talking.

The film stars Academy Award nominees Knightley and Fiennes who play the first couple and it also has some international cast with Dominic Cooper from the History Boys as the abolitionist Charles Grey, the Duchess’s favorite lover; Haley Atwell from Cassandra’s Dream the alluring best friend of the lady and Charlotte Rampling who plays the mother.

UK director Saul Dibb (”Bullet Boy,” “The Line of Beauty”) brings to life a vibrantly lavish, yet rapidly changing England in the time of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the madness of King George. The film is written by Dibb, Jeffrey Hatcher (”Casanova”) and Anders Thomas Jensen (”After the Wedding”) based on the award-winning biography Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman.

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