The Duchess

[chrissa1]

Blimey!! Just watching this for the first time. She had a tough old life didn't she?

[Maydup]

What a great film eh? I really enjoy that and so well acted by all.

[Dee Sa]

you feel sorry for her ? all that money, jewels and a life of riley its a case of - be careful what you wish for -next you will be feeling sorry for Camiknickers !

[fredkins]

What an absolutely awful man,but that is what it was like in them days,and supposedly still nowadays.

[rsvp]

I don't care for Kiera Knightly (?sp) too much, don't rate her as an actress but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Came into it about 20 minutes after the start but that didn't seem to spoil the thread of the storty, it was quite easy to pick up. Agree, it was good.

[abstibus]

I didn't mean to watch it, but as it was just after Monty Halls I thought I wound give it a try. I couldn't help but remember some gory tales I once heard about mice in nesting in their wigs.

[abstibus]

'would' - butter fingers.

[chrissa1]

Who is camiknickers? I know what they are. When she died she left debts equivalent to £3M in today's money through hjer love of gambling. Well, she had to do Something.

[LoftyLottie]

Brilliant film. Can anyone help me though. I couldn't read the information that was written about her at the end of the film, i.e. what happened next!!
(Small television, thus very small writing!)

If anybody can just let me know I would be grateful.

I sat down to watch it not really thinking I would enjoy it, but was hooked!! Fantastic acting.

[LoftyLottie]

I ended up warming to the Duke who was brilliantly portrayed. He just didn't know how to show emotion and was a product of his upbringing, but in that final scene with her on the sofa you could detect his unhappiness and awkwardness. When he held her hand and she touched his it made my eyes well up!!!

[jackthehat]

She may have had money and jewels.......but hardly the life of riley.

Why it is that people still equate having 'wealth' with being 'happy'?

Lottie - I missed the first (couple of?) subtitles but she gave her blessing to the Duke subsequently marrying Bess; she visited Eliza often and in secret and Eliza called her own daughter Georgiana.
She died from (supposedly) an abscess on her liver at the age of 48.

[LoftyLottie]

Thanks Jack x

[LoftyLottie]

By the way I agree with you about happiness.

Funnily enough I was thinking this morning whether I would be happier if I was really wealthy and the answer was no. My arthritis would still be there, I would still be an anxious worrier, etc. Family, friends (and in my case pets) are what makes for happiness. Without them I would be one unhappy bunny.

[LoftyLottie]

Her life was dreadful. Worse than being in prison these days. No wonder she gambled and drank!!

[LoftyLottie]

And would love to know who Camiknickers is?

[jackthehat]

Exactly, Lottie.
Not having to worry about paying the bills hardly means that life is one giddy whirl of fun and happiness.......it simply means that there is one level of concerns that you don't really need to consider.
Health and emotional matters are the same for everyone, surely?

[jackthehat]

David Cameron, I suspect.

[LoftyLottie]

Or perhaps Camilla!! Just came to me.

People seem to dislike her so much and I have no idea why.

[jackthehat]

Ah, yes, that would make sense, given that we are discussing a Duchess......

I think Camilla suffers from NOT being Diana..........and Charles's rather shabby behaviour throughout his marriage.

[LoftyLottie]

Yes, you are right. I just get fed up with what people say about her and her looks, just because she is not 'pretty'. She has married the man she loves and he loves her so good luck to them. Can never understand Diana worship.

The film was also distinctly influenced by the Charles/Diana thing!!!