'THE SCANDALOUS LADY W'
BBC DRAMA WITH NATALIE DORMER AND ANEURIN BARNARD
Now, here's something wonderfully naughty and wonderfully historical to start your week in a regal mood. BBC 2 has released first cast pictures and a trailer for their upcoming TV movie THE SCANDA- LOUS LADY W starring Natalie Dormer (The Tudors, Hunger Games, Game of Thrones) who leads a cast of British actors in this gripping 18th century drama, detailing the scandalous life of Seymour, Lady Worsley, who dared to leave her husband and elope with his best friend, Captain 
George Bisset, played by Aneurin Barnard (The White Queen). The movie will air August 17th!INSPIRED BY OIL PAINTING
In the TV movie based on the book LADY WORSLEY'S WHIM by Hallie Rubenhold (who was inspired by the full length oil painting of Lady Worsley that hangs in Harewood House in Yorkshire in which she is depicted wearing a bright red riding habit.), Natalie Dormer plays the passionate, courageous Seymour, Lady Worsley, who escapes her troubled marriage only to find![]()
herself at the centre of a very public trial brought by her powerful husband Sir Richard Worsley, played by Shaun Evans, who seeks compensation from her lover for the affair. As this extraordinary true![]()
story unfolds, Lady Worsley takes the brave decision to publicly expose the secrets of her marriage. The scandalous courtroom revelations ![]()
challenge the hypocrisy of the law that brands a wife the property of her husband, calling into question the whole concept of a woman’s 'worth'.
In the TV movie based on the book LADY WORSLEY'S WHIM by Hallie Rubenhold (who was inspired by the full length oil painting of Lady Worsley that hangs in Harewood House in Yorkshire in which she is depicted wearing a bright red riding habit.), Natalie Dormer plays the passionate, courageous Seymour, Lady Worsley, who escapes her troubled marriage only to find
herself at the centre of a very public trial brought by her powerful husband Sir Richard Worsley, played by Shaun Evans, who seeks compensation from her lover for the affair. As this extraordinary true
story unfolds, Lady Worsley takes the brave decision to publicly expose the secrets of her marriage. The scandalous courtroom revelations 
challenge the hypocrisy of the law that brands a wife the property of her husband, calling into question the whole concept of a woman’s 'worth'.