The Duchess - Trailer

Watch the trailer for The Duchess.

Keira Knightley stars in The Duchess, based on the best-selling biography / novel 'Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire' by Amanda Foreman'

similar to Princess Diana, a direct descendent of Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, she was good-looking, glamorous and loved by the general public. But as her beauty and charisma made her a household name, one thing always seemed to escape her: love.

Underneath Georgiana's glamorous façade lay an intelligent, vulnerable woman stranded in a loveless marriage to the Duke, one of the richest men in England. Perturbed by the limitations imposed on her by virtue of her sex and her class, she rebelled, entering into an intense relationship with the beautiful Bess Foster, thereby upsetting the cool balance of her marriage to the Duke and leading to a complex ménage a trois. Georgiana's rebellion extended to the public sphere where she tore down the conventions, becoming a political campaigner for the liberal party and galvanising the nation. In so doing she fell in love with Charles Grey, the future Prime Minister, finally discovering the meaning of true love. But could true love survive the strictures of the Duke, of Bess and of Society - the pressures of marriage and motherhood, of friendship and loyalty, of class and celebrity?

What followed was tragic, but Georgiana's unquenchable spirit sustained her and, unlike Diana, she ultimately found peace...

Starring: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper & Hayley Atwell
Directed by Saul Dibb



Released on 5th September.