Even members of the ducal family have delighted in botany and natural history: Georgiana, the 5th Duchess, collected fossils and minerals and Emma Tennant, sister of the 11th Duke of Devonshire, has a ...

Georgiana Spencer became Duchess of Devonshire on her marriage to the Duke in 1774, at the height of the Georgian period, a period of fashion, decadence, and political change. Spirited and adored ...

Amanda Foreman is the award-winning author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire and A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War. Her next book The World Made by Women ...

While on a work placement at Chatsworth, Bibi Cox O'Brien, explored the vast archives including a wide body of material from Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. So, we’re all heading into the final ...

It seems like in the last few years Keira Knigtley has been changing out one lavish epoch dress to slip into another. When we heard her latest venture, The Duchess, was a historical film we couldn ...

The film tells the true life story of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was the great-great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales. In the film Knightley plays an aristocratic woman who ...