Keira Knightley is unhappy about what has been said about her role in her new film, The Duchess. She plays Georgiana, the 18th-century Duchess of Devonshire. She's not unhappy about what the critics are saying, not yet anyway. Miss Knightley's unhappiness is about what the film's own trailer is saying.

The trailer draws a link between the Duchess of Devonshire and the late Diana, Princess of Wales. In fact, the trailer doesn't so much draw a link as sledgehammer a link. I have seen the film at an advance screening, and the trailer on You Tube. They are, like Georgiana and Diana, somewhat distant relations.

The trailer begins with a picture of Diana, followed by the choice phrases: "Two women related by ancestry"; "United by destiny"; "History repeats itself". [The Independent]

Set at the end of the eighteenth century, The Duchess is the story of the beautiful and, glamorous Georgiana Spencer, the most fascinating woman of the age. While her beauty and charisma made her name, her extravagant tastes and appetite for gambling and love made her infamous. Married young to the older, distant Duke of Devonshire, intimate of ministers and princes, Georgiana became a fashion icon, a doting mother, a shrewd political operator and darling of the common people. But at the core of her story is a desperate search for love. From Georgiana’s passionate and doomed affair with Earl Grey to the complex ménage à trois with her husband and her best friend, Lady Bess Foster, The Duchess is a very contemporary tale of fame, notoriety and the search for love. (Her love child with Lord Grey was Eliza Courtney). [Wiki]

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