Product Details

• Actors: Gemma Jones
• Format: NTSC, Color, Closed-captioned
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 6
• Studio: BBC Video/ Ime Life Video/ CBS Fox Video
• Run Time: 800 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000NVRZSG
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #277,880 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The Duchess Of Duke Street II is a 6 VHS Box Set starring Gemma Jones and created by John Hawkesworth (Upstairs, Downstairs), and is based on a true story of a remarkable woman and remarkable time in history.London, England in the 1900's is a city balanced on the edge of the old and the new; a place of gas lights, hansom cabs, and music halls; palatial homes and wretched slums. All the standards and values of the Victorian age are firmly in place. But the innocence and the trust of the old era are about to be tested in the fires of World War; the Great War; a war such as no one has ever seen before. From a scandalous affair with royalty, Louisa Trotter rises out of obscurity to become a fashionable member of society. Determined never to fall into poverty again, she starts her own business at a time when women relied on men for their survival. Louisa has two treasures: one is the Bentinck, her creation, a hotel that offers it's titled guests the best of everything. The other is the love of her life, Charlie, Lord Haslemere, a forbidden love, now that Haslemere is wed to someone else. From their bright and wild youth to the tragedy of war, Charlie and Louisa's affair is part of a tumultous age that changed the world forever!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Based on a true story and highly entertaining!, February 8, 2008

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This review is from: The Duchess Of Duke Street II (complete set) (VHS Tape)

The Duchess of Duke Street is an excellent series! It is based on the true story of one woman who rises through the ranks in England to become one of the best chefs in England. There are a lot of historical facts presented that reflect the lives and times of England at the time in which the story takes place. I highly recommend it!