Georgiana, Duchess of DevonshireSex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth century England. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was one of the most flamboyant and influential women of the eighteenth century. The great great great great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, she was variously a compulsive gambler, a political savante and operator of the highest order, a drug addict, an adulteress and the darling of the common people. This