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Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, was one of the most flamboyant and influential women of the eighteenth century. 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. This authoritative, utterly absorbing book presents a 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. Georgiana's extraordinary life has now been made into a major film - starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes - which is due for release in summer 2008.
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`A FASCINATING PORTRAYAL OF A REMARKABLE WOMAN' Sunday Time
Beautiful, glamorous and charismatic, Georgina, 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, Georgina, like her descendent, Princess of Wales, was publicly adored but personally troubled. From her complex m�ge �rios 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.

作者簡介：

Amanda Foreman was born in London in 1968. She was educated at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University in New York, before receiving her doctorate in 18th Century British History from Oxford University. She is married with five children. Since 2005 she has a been a Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary College, London University.