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　　The winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a

bestseller there for months, this wonderfully readable biography

offers a rich, rollicking picture of late-eighteenth-century

British aristocracy and the intimate story of a woman who for a

time was its undisputed leader.

Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of

Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In

1774, at the age of seventeen, Georgiana achieved immediate

celebrity by marrying one of England's richest and most influential

aristocrats, the Duke of Devonshire. Launched into a world of

wealth and power, she quickly became the queen of fashionable

society, adored by the Prince of Wales, a dear friend of

Marie-Antoinette, and leader of the most important salon of her

time. Not content with the role of society hostess, she used her

connections to enter politics, eventually becoming more influential

than most of the men who held office.

Her good works and social exploits made her loved by the

multitudes, but Georgiana's public success, like Diana's, concealed

a personal life that was fraught with suffering. The Duke of

Devonshire was unimpressed by his wife's legendary charms,

preferring instead those of her closest friend, a woman with whom

Georgiana herself was rumored to be on intimate terms. For over

twenty years, the three lived together in a jealous and uneasy

ménage à trois, during which time both women bore the Duke's

children—as well as those of other men.

Foreman's de*ions of Georgiana's uncontrollable gambling,

all- night drinking, drug taking, and love affairs with the leading

politicians of the day give us fascinating insight into the lives

of the British aristocracy in the era of the madness of King George

III, the American and French revolutions, and the defeat of

Napoleon.

A gifted young historian whom critics are already likening to

Antonia Fraser, Amanda Foreman draws on a wealth of fresh research

and writes colorfully and penetratingly about the fascinating

Georgiana, whose struggle against her own weaknesses, whose great

beauty and flamboyance, and whose determination to play a part in

the affairs of the world make her a vibrant, astonishingly

contemporary figure.

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