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- A chronicle of the life of 18th-century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was revered for her extravagant political and personal life.
- Louisa Trotter works her way up from being a skivvy to being the queen of cooks, cook to the King, and owner of the Bentinck Hotel. Her life and happenings among the guests and staff of the hotel make up the 31 episodes.
- A single mom tries to raise her daughter in London while wondering if she should have another kid.
- A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card shark through a series of misadventures before falling in love with him.
- From the Blackfriars' theatre in London, Andrew Marr presents a unique television premiere - a new production of John Webster's bloody revenge tragedy The Duchess of Malfi performed in a perfect recreation of an early Jacobean theatre. Lit entirely by candlelight, the production evokes a murky world of plotting and intrigue, where even the most pure in heart are caught in a web of murder and revenge.
- An Alsacian Baron massacres the family of a French Duke. Isabella, the Duke's baby child, escapes the massacre, is raised by gypsies and comes back twenty years later to exact revenge.
- Lt. Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own.
- In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched for her. Flash back to their meeting in Paris, he recently returned from Africa, she married and part of the highest society. She flirts with him, and soon he's captivated. His behavior is possessive, insistent. Then, it is her turn to become obsessed. Letters, balls, scandal, a kidnapping, and an ultimatum bring her to the cloister and him to melancholy. Whose steel proved sharper? Is it tragic or grotesque?
- A young man still in love with his self-destructive ex agrees to join her on a trip to Cancun where he ends up meeting a local girl - forcing him question everything he wants in life.
- Dick Starrett is insurance investigator in London and married to the upper class Jane. Her family disapproves of his being an American or background. Dick's co-worker is Peter Jamison and he collaborates with Inspector Starke on his cases.
- The storyline is loosely-based on Buffalo candy-maker August Merckens' opera-singer daughter Baroness Platon Von Wrangel, who married the Russian leader in the fight for restoration of the Russian monarchy.
- Very jealous of the Duke of Desborough's prize race horse "Clipstone," Major Roland Mostyn schemes to destroy his rival and thus obtain possession of the animal. After framing the duke's wife Muriel in a false adultery suit which results in divorce, Mostyn ruins the young duke at cards, thus forcing him to auction his horse in order to pay his debts. Muriel, heartbroken by the separation, persuades her old friend Captain Streatfield to purchase the horse and enter him in the derby. Mostyn bets all his money on his horse and attempts to fix the race but his plot is discovered and Clipstone wins the contest. After Muriel's innocence is proven, Mostyn's villainy towards the duke is finally stopped and the couple is happily reunited.
- The life of the Duchess of Alba La vida de la Duquesa de Alba
- A widowed Duchess falls in love with her steward Antonio.
- When a bandit kidnaps a duchess the gypsy who is in love with him will try to separate them.
- The Duchess de Langeais was one of the reigning belles of Paris, the pet of society, the envy of the women and the admiration of all the men. Her many conquests led her to believe herself to be irresistible, and when the famous General de Meyran failed to appreciate her charms, her vanity was piqued, and she determined to not only humble him in her own eyes, but in the eyes of all her friends. She had met him at an assembly at a friend's home, where he seemed to be suffering from ennui. Nothing amused this blasé soldier, the music was poor, the chattering of the ladies was uninteresting, and altogether he seemed to be having a very poor time. So distinguished did he appear that the Duchess desired that he be presented to her. This was done, but the General, instead of seeming pleased, immediately makes his adieus and takes his departure. The character of the General in its calmness and dignity is a distinct contrast to the nature of the frivolous Duchess, and his coldness determines the coquettish young lady to bring him to her feet. In order to do this, she grants him a special favor by inviting him to a tête-à-tête in her own home. The General accepts the invitation and beneath the warm hospitality his indifference melts and he yields to the charm of his hostess. Finally falling at her feet, he is about to profess his love and admiration for her, when the door is opened and the personal friends of the Duchess, whom she has induced to wait for this critical moment in the ante-room, enter, laughing slyly at the General's discomfiture. Deeply wounded and angered, the General takes his departure. After he is gone, the Duchess de Langeais realizes that she, too, has finally fallen deeply in love, but too late. She hastens to the General's office and seeks admittance. This is at first refused, but when she threatens to do herself some injury if he doesn't receive her, the austere soldier consents. When she is admitted, she throws herself at his feet and asks his forgiveness. This he sternly refuses, and immediately thereafter the Duchess disappears from Parisian society. Five years later, General de Meyran receives a commission from Ferdinand VII of Spain, and while establishing order in Formentera he visits the convent of the Order of the Carmelite Nuns. While passing through the chapel, he recognizes in the garb of a nun his former love, the Duchess de Langeais. The recognition is mutual and the Duchess flees to her cell. That night the General, with two friends, resolves to take her by force from the convent, and having forced an entrance they wander along the quiet passage until they find the door marked with the name which the Duchess has adopted at the time of her taking the veil. They enter, alas, too late; the excitement of seeing her love in such a place, after five years of separation, has proved too much for the Duchess, and she has died, and here in the lonely cell they find her body laid upon a rude bier, with a dim light of candles flickering on her pallid face. The Mother Superior now enters and sternly orders them to retire. This they do, after the General has imprinted his first and last kiss on the cold lips of his dead love.
- After leaving Nafplio, the first capital of the newly founded Greek Nation, the affluent French Duchess of Plaisance and ardent philhellene, Sophie de Marbois-Lebrun, moves to Athens with her young daughter, Eliza, circa 1834.
- An elegant woman is mistaken for an aristocrat, in this example of a frivolous white telephone comedy, complete with art deco settings and period popular music.
- Baltimore, where a little girl growing up in row house on Biddle Street played a significant role in dethroning the King of England. Residents of the street have all but forgotten that this little girl grew up to become Wallis Simpson, the love of King Edward VIII's life. "That Woman" as the rest of the royal family calls her was the one for whom he threw away the crown. Scott and Tom visit the sites of her many escapades, and astonish current-day residents with the news of their connection to a women who changed the course of history. Meet Hugo Vickers, royal historian to Queen Elizabeth. Hugo's close relationship with the Royal Family gives a riveting perspective on what really was happening behind the scenes. We learn how Wallis was really seen by the royals and intimate details about the duke and Duchesses' life. We also hear from family and others from Wallaces' past who reveal a new side of the story never heard before.
- The Duke de Longtour, a European nobleman, with impoverished estates, comes to America and wins the hand of Stephana Martin, an American heiress, defeating Marquis Ferdinand, an adventurer and his rival. He leaves a sting in the breast of Countess Maria, who loves him. The young nobleman brings his wife to Europe. The Countess and the Marquis, driven by a common interest, plot to estrange the young couple so that the Marquis can marry the heiress and Countess Maria can have the Duke. They hire an adventuress, and the Marquis, posing as a friend, brings Stephana to a cabaret just in time to see the adventuress throw her arms about the Duke. Stephana at once believes the worst and arranges to leave the Duke. But the Duke has befriended the adventuress and she confesses all. The plotters are denounced and the husband and wife reunited.
- Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, visits the Sargerson family at their home on a council estate in Hull in order to persuade them to adopt a healthier lifestyle.
- Opening in the lodgings of the Lieut. Buonaparte, then an impecunious young officer, the subject soon introduces us to Madame Sans Gene, Who brings Napoleon his washing and submits to a kiss. Later, in the laundry itself, her rescue of Count Neupport, whom she assists in a wounded state to her own bedroom, is shown. The girl's lover, Sergeant Le Fevre, forces an entrance, but lets the prisoner go to shield his sweetheart. These scenes all contain much effective acting, as does a later one in which the sergeant is instrumental in saving Napoleon's life. The latter has taken the place of a sentry who has fallen asleep at his post and resting on the latter's ride is waiting for him to wake, when a number of Royalist soldiers attack him. Le Fevre, on his rounds, comes to the rescue and secures a pardon for the sentry and promotion for himself. Le Fevre's rise is rapid. Made a field-marshal, he, after the battle of Danzig, is made a duke for his gallantry in saving the colors. At this stage we are given another glimpse of the heroine, who follows her husband's fortunes in the camp. This period introduces some good scenes of camp life, the council of officers, etc. Back at Paris, we find Napoleon in his private cabinet, unaware of an intrigue in progress in which the Empress is concerned, having for its object the escape of Count Neupport, who is entrusted with a letter to the Emperor of Austria. The Count, however, is discovered in the Court disguised, by Napoleon, and captured and condemned to death. Meanwhile, the Duchess of Danzig has visited Napoleon and laughingly shown him the unpaid laundry bill, and the Little Corporal has shown that he is not insensible to her charms. The Duke and Duchess hear of the capture of the Count and bring about his escape, the nobleman being conveyed through the lines in a military cloak and hat. Then they repair together to Napoleon and confess what they have done, to be magnanimously forgiven by the Emperor, after a natural outburst of anger, when he remembers that he owes his life to the man.
- Based on the true story of one of the greatest bank robberies in American history.
- Young millionaire Albert Durant poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled Grand Duchess, who does not object since she knows who he is and he doesn't know she knows. And his money will save her from having to be the proprietress of a low-rent tea shop.
- Childhood loves, James and Dee, haven't seen each other in ten years. When Dee visits James in the hospital, the two reminisce and commiserate over past traumas and find healing in this, but little does James know that Dee has been keeping a deep secret for the past ten years.
- 'The Grand Duchess Olga in the land of the Maple Leaf' - a documentary about the Toronto life of the sister of Tsar Nicholas II and the aunt of the legendary Princess Anastasia
- Family, friends and the people who know her best talk candidly about Britain's most private royal.
- A surrealistic horror film based on the latin urban legend "The woman in white" ( "A muller de Branco" ). When the clock hits midnight, a mysterious woman pays a visit to unfaithful man to revenge her painful past.
- A regiment of Canadian soldiers are drawn up in line along the line of march to salute them.
- Portrait of Grand Duchess Olga Romanov (1882-1960), youngest daughter of Czarina Maria Fyodorovna and the Russian Czar Aleksandr III. Olga was the Russia's last Grand Duchess.
- The wharf at Quebec is here shown with a regiment of Canadian Infantry drawn up in line. The Duke and Duchess of York walk straight toward our camera accompanied by a corps of Military Officers and Canadian notables. The picture ends by showing the Duke and Duchess leaving the warf in their carriage.
- Based on Browning's poem, a widowed Duchess raises a son that decides to abandon modern ways and act like it's the medieval days. When he wishes to marry, a young woman is found and plays along believing it's all a joke.
- A Duchess takes a ski getaway, soon learning the ropes from a sexy instructor. When an avalanche wreaks havoc on the budding romance, she must confront her delusions and discover her human potential with the help of some non-human friends.
- This is the story of Sarah Ferguson, once Her Royal Highness, Duchess of York - now an exile from the royal family - a woman who had everything, then threw it away when forced to exploit her name during a huge scandal.