

24/09/1978
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.

Francesca Annis
as Lillie

Anton Rodgers
as Edward Langtry

Peggy Ann Wood
as Mrs. Le Breton

John Barcroft
as Francis Knollys

Ann Firbank
as Princess Alexandra

Adam Bareham
as Clement Le Breton

Philip York
as Moreton Frewen

Edgar Wreford
as Lord Suffield

James Warwick
as Hugo de Bathe

Joanna Wake
as Mrs. Wheeler

Wanda Moore
as Lady Georgiana Dudley

Debbie Farrington
as Sally

Sheila Mitchell
as Charlotte Knollys

Michael Shannon
as Freddie Gebhard
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