Duchess, The
Date: 2008
Director: Saul Dibb
Production Company: Paramount Vantage, Pathé, BBC Films
Stars: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper, Hayley Atwell, Charlotte Rampling
Location(s): Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Derbyshire, London, Norfolk, Somerset, Surrey
Region(s): London C-D, Midlands, South East A-D, South West
Storyline:
Biography of the extravagant life of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. SJ
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- Capture 1
- 'Now' required
Kedleston Hall, Quarndon, Derbyshire stands in for Althorp. Also seen in 'Women in Love'.
- Capture 2
- 27 Jun 2021
The Old Royal Naval College SE10 once again standing in for London street scenes.
Those steps featured in an assassination in The Thirty Nine Steps (1979). SJ
- Capture 3
- 12 Aug 2022
Knightley and Fiennes's marriage is celebrated with public enthusiasm.
Bit puzzling this one as I couldn't work in the left mid-foreground of the original. Maybe a bit of CGI. But the background does look like the west side of Queen Anne's Court, SE10. SJ
- Capture 4
- 02 Jul 2019
The carriage turns into Fiennes' Devonshire House in London, played by Somerset House, WC2.
A much-loved location. SJ
- Capture 5
- 02 Jul 2019
Looking north at Somerset House.
A bit more clutter here. SJ
- Capture 6
- 02 Jul 2019
Knightley alights.
The view east. SJ
- Capture 7
- 07 Jul 2019
She enters but now we switch to the Marble Hall of Holkham Hall.
Sent in by Phil Gray who matched the Holkham Hall shots in a useful visit.
- Capture 8
- 07 Jul 2019
The Palladian-style Holkham Hall is in Norfolk, also seen in Shakespeare in Love, Glorious 39 and Shadows in the Sun.
Phil again. (SJ: not sure how elegant that dividing handrail is)
- Capture 9
- 'Now' required
The drawing room of Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, the exterior of which was seen in capture 1. Identified by Bridget Carrington who reognised the distinctive blue wallpaper as well as the picture between the doors.
- Capture 10
- 22 Jun 2019
As the caption says.
Slightly off angle. SJ
- Capture 11
- 'Now' required
Tea Room, Bath Assembly Rooms. The exterior was seen in '80,000 Suspects'.
- Capture 12
- 'Now' required
Back at Kedleston.
- Capture 13
- 07 Jul 2019
Not completely sure... at first but see the now.
Totally sure thanks to Phil who tells us that this is looking from the Palladian entrance (the ‘back’ of Holkham Hall seen earlier) over the fountain to the gap in the trees with obelisk in the centre. (SJ)
- Capture 14
- 'Now' required
Back in Greenwich, I believe.
- Capture 15
- 02 Jul 2019
Once again to Somerset House.
Very similar view to capture 5. SJ
- Capture 16
- 07 Jul 2019
Another shot of the interior of Holkham Hall.
Phil's shot again. (SJ)
- Capture 17
- 21 Jul 2023
The cascade and River Wye at West Wycombe Park, Buckinghamshire.
Malcolm Tinnelly leaned over a newly positioned "safety" fence for this shot. (SJ)
- Capture 18
- 21 Jul 2023
Cooper and Knightley share romance.
Malcolm enjoys his day out at this NT property and adds this shows the bridge over the "Cascade", featured in the previous capture. (SJ)
- Capture 19
- 21 Jul 2023
Still at West Wycombe Park. The Temple of Music, among the park's follies seen in 'The Black Cat', 'Give My Regards To Broad Street', 'The Hippopotamus', 'Another Country', 'To the Devil a Daughter', 'White Hunter Black Heart', 'The Music Lovers' and 'The Young Visiters'.
Malcolm again. (SJ)
- Capture 20
- 21 Jul 2023
And again.
Malcolm found that the overhanging branch has grown since filming. (SJ)
- Capture 21
- 'Now' required
The Marble Hall of Clandon Park House, Surrey, damaged by fire but on the way to restoration.
- Capture 22
- 27 Jun 2021
Greenwich SE10 ever reliable.
Alongside King William Court, looking south. I think the far end of the colonnade was blocked up. SJ
- Capture 23
- 'Now' required
The floor of the Marble Hall in Kedleston. Knightley's wig is about to catch fire.
- Capture 24
- 'Now' required
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
- Capture 25
- 'Now' required
A clearer exterior of the Duchess of Devonshire's spread at Chatsworth.
- Capture 26
- 24 Jun 2019
The Holburne Museum, Bath, also seen in 'Vanity Fair' and 'Two and Two Make Six'.
And here it is on a wet June day. SJ
- Capture 27
- 'Now' required
The final scene. After researching the location, Adrian Turner identifies this as one of the private gardens at Chatsworth House near Bakewell in Derbyshire, just below the west front of the house adding that garden no longer exists and seems to have been dug out about five years ago. Why they did this is a mystery - it might be a case of box blight - but they also seem to have removed the fountain from the circular pool which is the only thing that remains.