"Set in London between 1900 and 1925, the story follows Louisa Leyton/Trotter, the eponymous "Duchess", who works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St. James's."
Gemma Jones
as Louisa Trotter
John Welsh
as Merriman
Richard Vernon
as Major Smith-Barton
Christopher Cazenove
as Charles Tyrrell
Mary Healey
as Mrs. Cochrane
Victoria Plucknett
as Mary
Alan MacNaughtan
as
Holly De Jong
Joan Benham
Joanna David
Sammie Winmill
Lalla Ward
Thorley Walters
John Hawkesworth
Writer
Producer