The Duchess (2008)
Ferdy on Films, etc. (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... his staggering wealth and power. Georgiana strikes up a friendship with and provides shelter to Bess Foster (Hayley Atwell), a runaway from a putrid marriage and barred from seeing her children by her adulterous husband. Bess soon becomes the Duke’s mistress, initially to persuade him to use his clout to pry her children away from her husband, but eventually becoming a fixture...
