The Clandestine Marriage 1999

A period drama set in an English country estate where the family, eager to secure their fortunes, plots a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and the penniless heir of an aristocratic lineage, forcing both parties to confront love, duty, and the constraints of their social world.

A period drama set in an English country estate where the family, eager to secure their fortunes, plots a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and the penniless heir of an aristocratic lineage, forcing both parties to confront love, duty, and the constraints of their social world.

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Mr. Sterling, Timothy Spall, is incredibly wealthy, but to his dismay not an aristocrat. He believes his social status will rise if he marries off his daughter Betsy, Emma Chambers, to an aristocrat. Unknown to him, however, his other daughter Fanny, Natasha Little, has already secretly married her father’s clerk Richard Lovewell, Paul Nicholls. To complicate matters, Sir John Ogleby, Tom Hollander, is presented as a candidate to marry Betsy, and he and his father Lord Ogleby, Nigel Hawthorne, visit Mr. Sterling to make up the contract. Secretly, however, Lord Ogleby is impoverished and needs this marriage to provide his family with new wealth.

While preparations are made to celebrate the engagement of Betsy and Sir John, including the building of a new fountain which will be the highlight of the feast and the centrepiece of Mr. Sterling’s Rococo garden, Fanny and Richard are trying to find a way to keep their marriage a secret, whilst Sir John seems to be much more interested in Fanny rather than Betsy.

In the end, the secrets are out. But all ends well, when Fanny and Richard are forgiven, and Lord Ogleby himself marries Betsy.

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