She was also a great-great-great-aunt of Elizabeth II by marriage through the queen's maternal grandmother.Ī young Miss Georgiana Spencer with her mother, Margaret Georgiana Spencer. Their lives, centuries apart, have been compared in tragedy. She was the great-great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales. With a preeminent position in the peerage of England, the Duchess was famous for her charisma, political influence, beauty, unusual marital arrangement, love affairs, socializing, and notorious for her gambling addiction, leading to an immense debt. Born into the Spencer family, married into the Cavendish family, she was the first wife of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, and the mother of the 6th Duke of Devonshire.Īs the Duchess of Devonshire, she garnered much attention and fame in society during her lifetime. Social ambition combats self-actualization in this biting tale of one woman's search for certainty in a city full of mirages.Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (née Spencer / dʒ ɔːr ˈ dʒ eɪ n ə/ jor- JAY-nə 7 June 1757 – 30 March 1806), was an English aristocrat, socialite, political organiser, author, and activist. But between a meddling, narcissistic mother, a self-absorbed therapist and friends trying to send her to dating re-education camps, it seems that fake cheese is the only genuine thing left in the city. All Courtney wants is to be left alone so she can search beneath the surface for a meaningful life.

And she certainly doesn't want to be molded into date bait for the top rung of L.A. She doesn't want to be a poster child for the Opt-Out Generation. So they hatch plots to get her to give up her career, break her addiction to fake cheese, marry into high-orbit wealth and rule the stratosphere alongside them.But Courtney resists. Worse, they expect Courtney to do the same. When her friend Marcie formulates an impossibly detailed rating system for acceptable men-the Los Angeles Eco-Chain of Dating-Courtney goes on a self-destructive binge that doesn't stop until she gets thrown out of group therapy for insulting a former child actress.Courtney is mortified as she watches her best friends give up stellar careers in law and the arts to marry entertainment royalty and civilian overachievers. Read full overviewĬourtney Hamilton is a Velveeta-loving attorney driven to distraction by a city that seethes with soul-sucking status seekers. When her friend Marcie formulates an impossibly detailed rating system for acceptable men-the Los Angeles Eco-Chain of Dat. Courtney Hamilton is a Velveeta-loving attorney driven to distraction by a city that seethes with soul-sucking status seekers.

Almost Royalty by Courtney Hamilton