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On his fine English estate, Lord Alconleigh (Dominic West) determines that his fine English daughters will never leave the family home, except to marry fine English gentlemen.
‘Church, stables, tennis courts,’ he roars, listing the facilities on offer. ‘Why would they ever want to leave?’
He wants his gels to rot in Alconleigh’s ivory towers, along with their threadbare sweaters and impoverished minds, until suitable marriages are made. Not to random cads or handsome swains (all ‘sewers’ according to him) but to husbands meeting his approval, preferably his dull chums from the House of Lords.
Lord Alconleigh (Dominic West) determines his daughters will never leave home, except to marry fine gentlemen, but his daughter Linda (both pictured) (Lily James) has other ideas