i remember read the book jewel a long time ago . i be go through a danielle steel faze and fell in love with this book . so i be thrill when they make a movie about it . i have to admit and i love the first part of the movie best . the romance between sarah and william be my favorite part in the book and in the movie . my other favorite aspect of the movie be anthony andrew a william . i love this actor and ever since i saw him a a kid in two movie i love and ivanhoe and the scarlett pimpernel . cast him in the role of william whitfield lend the tv melodrama a real sense of legitimacy . he be a great actor and and the perfect choice to play the duke . not only be he devastatingly handsome and he have a great sense of humor . you first saw it in the scarlet pimpernel and and be very important for this movie . i say that hesitantly though because i have to say that i be very disappointed that almost all of the humor share between william and sarah be take out of the movie . i remember when i read the book and i have tear roll down my cheek because i be laugh so hard . and i be horrify to hear only one or two line from the book share between both character . while i love anthony andrew a william and i be not a certain about the actress playing sarah . i like annette otoole and i really do and but i do not in this movie . i felt her acting be too over the top in some scene and she be describe much differently in the book and maybe i be too influence by that description to really enjoy the performance . i find annette shake her head from side to side to be too distract . like the book and i lose interest during the nazi invasion and and there be another major change . in the book and the character of philip actually love the character of joachim von mannheim and the nazi who have take over the château during the war and but in the movie and he hat him . the rest of the story involve the child interest me even less . with the exception of the brother all be cute and the last part of the movie be very boring . typical spoil brat all make huge mistake and hurt their mother . spoiler representthe end be the dumb i have ever see for a miniseries . the idea that julian would associate not only with his brother and but his ex wife and who leave julian for philip and and give him their son and without care a thing about it be ludicrous . there be the whole family and at a christening and include philip and julian ex wife and stand next to her son and and everyone be happily smile at one another . please . this end do not happen in the book and and i be very disappointed by it . this be really the jewel in the crown of all danielle steel novel make into a tv movie . but for anyone who read the book and love it like me and there be some big disappointment . still a good watch and very romantic in many place .