The Lady

Matt Roush says...

One of the more outrageous members of Britain’s royal family, former Duchess of York Sarah “Fergie” Ferguson, has a knack for attracting people of dubious character. She and her former husband, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (then Prince Andrew), remain in the headlines because of their notorious past association with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but this four-part docudrama is occupied with a different scandal. When Sarah (played as a royal mess by Game of Thrones‘ Natalie Dormer) was still a royal, she hired the young and socially ambitious working-class woman Jane Andrews (Mia McKenna-Bruce) as her dresser and confidante, a bond that didn’t outlast Sarah’s fall from grace. When the unstable Jane’s life spirals further, her relationship with businessman Thomas Cressman (Ed Speelers) ends in murder and a prison sentence. The sordid tale drops its episodes weekly.

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