Original Screenplay
The 5th Marquis of Anglesey would go down in the history books as one of the biggest spendthrifts of all time - if, that is, you could find him in the history books. So ashamed were his family of his expensive habits and his ‘continental’ ways that they systematically destroyed as much evidence of his life as they could get their hands on.
Piecing together the history from the scant evidence, this extraordinary story is told from the viewpoint of Garrett, the trusted servant, who is transported from his parents’ humble cottage to the excesses of Belle Epoque Paris and Edwardian London.
Accompanying the Marquis from boyhood to inheritance and finally to death and bankruptcy, Garrett is touched by a world that would change him forever.
Compelling period drama.