The Duchess: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Amanda Foreman

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Georgiana’s activities and those of her friends and relations were reported and ridiculed, partly because her behaviour and actions were viewed as transgressive. Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 109, repro. celebrated romantic sentiment and openly shed tears over Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa. The Duke did not know how to be romantic; never having experienced tenderness himself he was incapable of showing it to Georgiana.Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 71, no. 93. What did the Duke think to Georgiana’s fashion trends? After praising the Duchess’s hair, a newspaper reported that the Duke was happy to support his wife’s fashion choices as long as she did not think it ‘necessary that I should wear any ornament on my head’. In fact, the Duchess was not the first member of the family to employ someone for the purpose of maintaining their hair: the 3rd Earl of Devonshire employed his own barber in 1660. Although a luxury, Georgiana’s hairdresser was an important part of her household and shows that it was not always easy to define who was and who was not a servant. br>Devonshire House lay in London's western end, known as the "polite" end, encompassing Piccadilly, St. James's, and Hyde Park. Before the eighteenth century the grand nobility lived in private palaces along the Strand, overlooking

She did, however, enthusiastically embrace her husband’s politics and became an advocate of the Whigs. a b Taylor, Ella (25 September 2008). "Lady Georgiana Spencer, cheated in life and in casting, in The Duchess". Westword . Retrieved 13 June 2016. After the election, Georgiana would continue to support the Whigs, although more privately and had an informal, though influential, role advising King George IV, particularly during his tenure as Prince Regent. She was the great-great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales. Their lives, centuries apart, have been compared in tragedy. [3] She was also a great-great-great-aunt of Elizabeth II by marriage through the queen's maternal grandmother.Tragically, they were so, so wrong. The Duke’s proposal came—but for all the wrong reasons. He wed Georgiana for her social position and her youth. In a dark twist, the Duke believed that even if he didn’t like Georgiana now, she was young enough to mold into his ideal wife.