The Duchess Movie News:

Headline: Keira Knightley is The Duchess!
30th July 2007
Posted by: Gary Gray

Keira Knightley has signed on to star in The Duchess.

The flick will star Knightley as the 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire, an ancestor of Princess Di, she lived an extravagant, profligate and promiscuous life of political and romantic intrigue, becoming an important powerbroker amid Britain's ruling elite but also running up catastrophic gambling debts. She was alternately feted and reviled, and widely caricatured by the popular press.

Saul Dibb will direct from a script by Jeffrey Hatcher. The movie is being produced by Pathe/BBC Films.

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