‘THE DUCHESS’ ** 1/2 From the opening scenes of “The Duchess,” it’s clear that 18th Century aristocrat Georgiana Spencer (Keira Knightley) is in for a jarring disappointment of a marriage.

In her best screen outing to date, Keira Knightley makes a regal impression as the Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana Spencer, who it turns out had more than just a family connection with her direct ...

Georgiana Spencer, the Duchess of Devonshire from 1774 to 1806, was quite the public figure and a real private mess. Witty, trail-blazingly fashionable at a time when fashion was at its most ridicu… ...

Much is made in Britain of the fact that Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806), was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales. I wouldnt know where to start in counting ...

Plumed feathers, powdered wigs and corseted libidos abound in "The Duchess," but for all its luscious period trappings and Keira Knightley's spirited take on the title role, Saul Dibb's handsome ...

The elegant period drama “The Duchess” never mentions that its subject was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales; it doesn’t need to. Lady Georgiana Spencer, when ...

British actress Keira Knightley was only a child when Princess Diana died. Now at age 23, Knightley stars in The Duchess as Georgiana Spencer, Diana's distant 18th-century relative.

Foremost in fashion, influential in politics, well-educated, cultured -- there seemed little the inordinately popular and beautiful Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Diana Spencer's great-great ...

In "The Duchess," a lavish melodrama of aristocratic foolishness and betrayal is designed around the colorful though not always happy life of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806).

It’s based on Amanda Foreman’s biography of Georgiana Spencer, the duchess of Devonshire, played by Keira Knightley with her long neck and strong jaw, the better to keep her erect and poised ...