Beautiful, glamorous and charismatic, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, was an icon of her age; she was also a compulsive gambler, an influential political operator, a drug addict, a doting mother and an adulteress. In a world of decadence and excess, of great houses, extravagent parties and sexual intrigue, Georgiana was publicly adored but personally troubled. From her complex menage a trois with her husband and best friend to her vast gambling debts, from her adoration of her children to her passionate but doomed love for Earl Grey, she was a fascinating contradictory woman whose story still resonates today...