She could not utter a word nor take a step without it being reported in every newspaper her approval was enough to make an artist fashionable or play successful. The combination of intelligence, beauty and wealth made her endlessly fascinating to the public. Thomas Gainsborough's celebrated portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, from the collection at Chatsworth. This apparently led Georgiana to assume that the Duke’s wooden reserve disguised a sensitive heart. Lord Spencer was a shy man in public but adoring and tender to his wife in private. She probably thought herself in love with the Duke because he bore a superficial similarity to her father. Georgiana was an ingénue who loved parties and believed in romantic love. The Duke was world-weary and worldly-wise, with a mistress and an illegitimate child tucked away in the country. The Duke was notoriously inhibited while Georgiana’s social aplomb had already made her a success in London and an intimate friend of Marie-Antoinette in France. However, gossips questioned the match from the outset. He was eleven years her senior and one of only a handful whose wealth exceeded the Spencers’. She was seventeen years old when she married the 5th Duke of Devonshire in 1774. Read more mesmerizing picture of a fascinating world of political and sexual intrigues, grand houses, huge parties, glamour and great wealth – always on the edge of being squandered by the excesses and scandals of individuals.Ady Georgiana Spencer, socialite and leading political hostess of the 18th century, held court over a circle of influence and fashion at Devonshire House in London.
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The great-great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, she was variously a compulsive gambler, a political savante and operator of the highest order, a drug addict, an adulteress and the darling of the common people.
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was one of the most flamboyant and influential women of the eighteenth century. Clean copy with minor shelf wear Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England. BIC Classification: 1DBKE 3JF 3JH BGH HBJD1 HBLL HBTB. Num Pages: 496 pages, 32 b/w, 16 col plates (24pp), With index. Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England. Description for Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire Paperback.
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