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domingo, 11 de diciembre de 2011

The Duchess (2008)



An interesting thing of this peculiar woman is that she is the predecessor of Diana of Wales.



Analysis:
We could make a film analysis but in my opinion it’s better to contrast the life of the real Georgina and the life of the fiction one.
Born the 7 of June of 1757, she was the first wife of the duke of Cavendish, and she had been recognise by his beauty and her ability of became friend of important figures and people of her time. In fact she becomes a very important woman in politics.
She married on 1774, before reaching 17 years she get married with the duke of Cavendish as I said before, and because of that she was victim of the aristocratic world, because at that time, woman were value by their fertility capacity, and it’s true that Georgina had many miscarriages before having 2 daughters and this fact got mad the duke because he wanted a baron not a female. This set of facts, made Georgina had many diseases such as anorexia and alcoholism.
Also we can mention that she has a very active sexual life: She had many lovers such as Charles Grey, a young man who had a daughter with our protagonist (The name of this illegitimate daughter was Eliza Courtney)
To finally her life, we can say that she was a compulsive gambler, and she died with many liabilities (This can be saw in the film many times)