Following the love story of Sophia Trenchard, a young beautiful girl, who during attending the party of Duke of Wilmington, where she meets a handsome guy, with whom she falls deeply in love, but after many years, they are met and struggle against facing the revelation of many secrets.
So: something to pass the time as the coronavirus curfew descends, or something to send you screaming into the streets and licking the first handrail you can find? The decision is yours.
This opening episode was, in truth, mostly hors d'oeuvres with little in the way of main course as the stars regurgitated the plot points for our edification.
The encounters between Anne Trenchard, Lady Brockenhurst and the elderly Duchess of Bedford, looking back at a past in which their experiences overlapped far more than they'd realised, were powerfully affecting.
Despite a few quibbles about its pacing, Belgravia's sleek six episodes provide the TV equivalent of a beach read romp, one that is engaging and ultimately very satisfying.
Greig, best known as a comic actress, invests Anne with both shrewdness and sensitivity, and the sort of quiet confidence that allows the merchant's wife to hold her own among the grandees.
