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"Beautiful, glamorous and charismatic, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, was an icon of her age; she was also a compulsive gambler, an influential political operator, a drug addict, a doting mother and an adulteress." "In a world of decadence and excess, of great houses, extravagant parties and sexual intrigue, Georgiana, like her descendant, Diana, Princess of Wales, was publicly adored but personally troubled. From her complex menage a trois with her husband and best friend to her vast gambling debts; from her adoration of her children to her passionate but doomed love for Earl Grey, she was a fascinating, contradictory woman whose story still resonates today."--BOOK JACKET.
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The Duchess. There Were Three People In Her Marriage, Amanda Foreman
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- Released
- 2011
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Amanda Foreman
- Publisher
- Harper Press
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0007903758
- ISBN13
- 9780007903757
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, True Stories, Biographies, Historical Fiction, Autobiographies & Memoirs, British Literature, 18th century
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- "Beautiful, glamorous and charismatic, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, was an icon of her age; she was also a compulsive gambler, an influential political operator, a drug addict, a doting mother and an adulteress." "In a world of decadence and excess, of great houses, extravagant parties and sexual intrigue, Georgiana, like her descendant, Diana, Princess of Wales, was publicly adored but personally troubled. From her complex menage a trois with her husband and best friend to her vast gambling debts; from her adoration of her children to her passionate but doomed love for Earl Grey, she was a fascinating, contradictory woman whose story still resonates today."--BOOK JACKET.