The Glamorous Duchess Who Was A Third Wheel In Her OWN Marriage | PART 1 | Georgiana Cavendish
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Published 2024-03-17
Sources and Related Books:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire - www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198…
(JSTOR) Moral Trespass in Georgian London: Gaming, Gender, and Electoral Politics in the Age of George III by Phyllis Deutsch - www.jstor.org/stable/2639963?mag=how-a-gambling-du…
(JSTOR) The Butcher-Kissing Duchess of Devonshire: Between Caricature and Allegory in 1784 by Amelia Rauser - www.jstor.org/stable/30053337
The Duchess by Amanda Foreman - amzn.to/4csNySP
Duchess Georgiana: Georgian Britain’s Most Popular Woman, A New Study by Lindsay Porter - amzn.to/3Pz7Lg2
The Sylph by Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire - amzn.to/3TLq9op
The Two Duchesses: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire by Vera Foster - amzn.to/3TNSGKb
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All Comments (21)
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I love that this woman so thoroughly embraced her husband’s first extramarital child, even though it annoyed everyone. She loved that child and didn’t blame her and just loved her.
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The film starring Kiera Knightley the Duchess is an excellent look into this
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Gambling is a dangerous addiction that still destroys families.
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It's like re-watching the life of Princess Diana.
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The book THE DUCHESS IS A WONDERFUL READ. I HAD TO READ IT 3 TIMES TO TRULY UNDERSTAND. THE HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SYSTEMS OF THE TIME. AND GAMBLING WAS AN ADDICTION OF MANT OF THE ARISTOCRACY. INCREDIBLE AMOUNTS OF MONEY AND PROPERTY WAS THROWN AWAY!!😮😮
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The fact that her husband had fathered a child before their marriage and she took the little girl in and loved her like her own speaks volumes about her, I think.
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Interesting how her descendant lived the exact same life, married the exact same man and had the exact same marriage! Almost like this is a family curse.
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Diana did not descend directly from Georgiana but rather, from her brother.
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Her famous descendent is non other than Princess Diana who also lived a similarly heartbreaking love & life. ❤RIP Georgiana & Princess Diana .
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Amanda Foreman's bio of Georgiana is my favorite book of all time. Highly recommended to anyone with an interest in her or the period. Actually, according to the book, she was not a great beauty, but managed to appear so due to her style and personality.
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Wow, I can't wait to hear the rest💗 although everyone seem to think her life is parallel with her great niece Princess Diana, which I don't completely disagree, but in her case, I find her husband much more annoying. I mean he didn't like her and didn't bother himself to show her enough respect or attention either and the love triangle thing started in the half-way through of their married life and the other woman came to her life much years later and it wasn't like her husband being obsessed with another from the start, which honestly makes it more heartbreaking, because it means he could love her, he just didn't want to or didn't bother to💔💔💔
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Superb as always great presentation. and narration, she was a beautiful Inteligent lady, sadly she never knew true happiness her only solace were her children and gambling, I'd like to think history looks more kindly on her now, in many ways she led a sad life and deserved far more.
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Look at her still rockin' them heels😊
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Thank you for this amazing rendition on Georgiana Cavendish, the glamorous Duchess of Devonshire, her fabulous style and captivating beauty made her the "It" girl of her times. The best video about her I've ever seen so far. Excellent work as always 😊❤
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ooh.. glad there's a part 2 and it didn't just end on the cliffhanger!
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This was a great video. Narration was on point with the comparisons. I saw a movie on Georgiana Cavendish, and the similarity with Diana, was amazing.
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THE DUCHESS is a great movie that tells this story perfectly starring Kiera Knightly.
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Cavendish was the ancestor of Bess of Hardwick. Georgina was a contemporary of Marie Antoinette; imagine having a friendship to Mr. Fox and his parliament. She is a fabulous figure of history, and I recommend anybody dig deeper and read a biography on her to gain a deeper respect of the woman, the era, as opposed to her gambling issues, poor choices, husband, and waste of brains. Ps. She is princess Diana’s relative and had more royal blood than any of the Windsors today (who are more Germanic than English).
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Excellent as always! Must confess I picked up but never finished Amanda Foreman's bio of her. Will have to finish it sometime.
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I love your voice, thank you for a good story