Kempton's wife Dorothy works as a housekeeper and babysitter for a local councillor and his wife Jackie aims to become a boat-builder and move away and his elder brother Kenny lives in Leeds, working in construction but involved in low-level crime. Kempton's son Jackie meets him on his release and on their way home they visit the grave of Marion, Jackie's sister, who had been killed in a bicycle accident aged only 18. Although he can afford one, he refuses to do so as he is campaigning against pensioners having to pay it, part of his wider strong beliefs about supporting the common man. Soon afterwards he is jailed at Durham for 13 days for watching TV without a licence. Six months earlier, in spring 1961, he had sent a script to the BBC from his native Newcastle upon Tyne. Sixty-year-old self-educated working-class Kempton Bunton appears in Court Number 1 at the Old Bailey, pleading not guilty to charges of stealing Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington and its frame from the National Gallery in London. It was released in cinemas in the UK on 25 February 2022. The film was awarded 5 stars from The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph following its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. It was Michell's penultimate film before his death on 22 September 2021. Dealing with the 1961 theft of the Portrait of the Duke of Wellington, the film stars Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Anna Maxwell Martin and Matthew Goode. The Duke is a 2020 British comedy film directed by Roger Michell, with a screenplay by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman.
And amidst the glittering, gossipy, cut-throat world of London’s elite, there is only one certainty: love ignores every rule. It wasn’t the plan, but it seems she’s falling for the duke, for real.
Maybe it’s his devilish smile, certainly it’s the way his eyes seem to burn every time he looks at her. But as Daphne waltzes across ballroom after ballroom with Simon, it’s hard to remember that their courtship is a complete sham. Their ruse works like a charm – at first. But the two of them know the truth – it’s all an elaborate plan to keep Simon free from marriage-minded society mothers.Īnd as for Daphne, surely she will attract some worthy suitors now that it seems a duke has declared her desirable. Can there be any greater challenge to London’s Ambitious Mamas than an unmarried duke? Lady Whistledown’s Society Papers, April 1813By all accounts, Simon Basset is on the verge of proposing to his best friend’s sister, the lovely – and almost-on-the-shelf – Daphne Bridgerton.
This is the story of Daphne Bridgerton and the Duke: welcome to the ballrooms of Regency London. The first novel in Julia Quinn’s worldwide bestselling Bridgerton novels, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix.
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