
Lillie (1978)
8.2
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Sep 24, 1978 (GB)
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Drama
The Rise and Fall of a Professional Beauty. It was the affair that shook Victorian society to its core. He was the Prince of Wales, the future monarch; she was a professional beauty, who became a royal bedmate. Follow the fascinating life of the Dean of Jersey's daughter from her modest childhood to her emergence as one of the most celebrated beauties of her time. Lillie's liaison with the heir to the throne marked only the beginning of a remarkable, scandalous and daring series of adventures in open defiance of accepted morality imposed by Victorian and Edwardian society.
Cast

Francesca Annis
Lillie

Anton Rodgers
Edward Langtry

Peggy Ann Wood
Mrs. Le Breton

John Barcroft
Francis Knollys

Ann Firbank
Princess Alexandra

Adam Bareham
Clement Le Breton

Philip York
Moreton Frewen

Edgar Wreford
Lord Suffield

James Warwick
Hugo de Bathe

Joanna Wake
Mrs. Wheeler