A film review of The Duchess

Not by me, silly.

Both readers of this blog surely know I am not qualified as a film reviewer knowing only what I like, not what you will.

But my fellow Gatherer, Digital Dogs, has published an informative review of this film starring the beautiful Keira Knightley and the brilliant Ralph Fiennes as the Duchess and Duke of Devonshire, with Dominic Cooper as Earl Grey (of tea fame!)

So if you like historical dramatizations and lovely costumes (who doesn’t?), you may be interested in seeing “The Duchess.” I know I am.

Read Digital Dogs’ review here:

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977450871

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Update: found an interesting article in The Daily Mail about the child the Duchess gave up being a direct ancestor of Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York! Eliza was also an indirect ancestor of Diana Spencer, Princess Diana.

The article has quite a few historical details including a fragment of a poem which Georgiana wrote to her illegitimate daughter, Eliza, child of Charles Grey, a future Prime Minister of Great Britain:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1058777/How-Fergie-Duchess-hit-movie-directly-related-illegitimate-child.html