Ironically, the Duke of Devonshire is perhaps the only person in all of England who isn’t enthralled with the duchess. She’d longed for a man of “patience, determination and resolution.” She gets instead a stonehearted brute who isn’t “interested in anything.” Except, she says, his dogs-and virtually every other woman he can get his hands on. So the birth of two girls (and two stillborn boys) only fuels the duke’s contempt for his witty wife. Georgiana learns that she has one purpose in the marriage: to provide a male heir. But her romantic notions are shattered the moment the ceremony ends and her new husband literally cuts off her dress-with nary a word-to exact his husbandly right. Based on Amanda Foreman’s biography, The Duchess recounts Georgiana’s story, a dramatic but tragic tale of one woman’s public adulation and searing private pain.Ī flicker of promise gets things going as Georgiana finds herself engaged and then wed to the much older duke.
On June 6, 1774, one day shy of her 18th birthday, Georgiana Spencer married William Cavendish, the 5th Duke of Devonshire.
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