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DIANA FILM NOT ABOUT DIANA OBVIOUSLY ABOUT DIANA

05-09-08

A FILM about Princess Diana that the film-makers say is not about Princess Diana is obviously about Princess Diana, cinemagoers said last night.

From the Georgiana 10th anniversary memorial edition of the London Fish Price Gazette

The Duchess, starring Keira Knightley, tells the true story of Georgiana Spencer, a young nanny from Kensington who went on to become the most sketched woman of her age.

It depicts Georgiana's marriage to a heartless aristocrat, before becoming a fashion icon, anti-gout campaigner and mother to two sons, one of whom looked remarkably like a captain in the Royal Hussars.

Yet, despite being the 18th Century's most glamorous and saintly duchess, her big-eared husband insisted on having an affair with a woman much uglier than her.

The film also reveals many previously unknown facts about Georgiana's life including her love affairs with a series of Indian medicine-wallas and the son of an Egyptian cloth merchant.

The story is told in a series of flashbacks as Georgiana reveals her secrets to some ponce from the Daily Mail.

But it all ends tragically as Georgiana is killed in a high-speed horse crash while being pursued by a gang of ruthless caricaturists.

Knightley said: "It's got nothing to do with Diana. Okay so we've used the slogan 'There were three people in her marriage'. But they were just random words we pulled out of a sock.

"It could just as easily have been, 'There were three monkeys in her cheese library'."