This historical melodrama gets much of its kick from the parallels between its 18th-century heroine—Georgiana Spencer, who married to become duchess of Devonshire—and her descendant Diana Spencer, the ...

Before the notion of the “It Girl” existed, Georgiana Spencer, the Duchess of Devonshire, was the personification of the term. Married at a young age in 1774 to the powerful Duke of Devonshire, she ...

Based on Amanda Foreman's biography of Georgiana Spencer, the Duchess of Devonshire, Saul Dibb's costume drama tells how Princess Diana's 18th-century ancestor (played here by Keira Knightley)—a naive ...