The Lady and the Highwayman

The Lady and the Highwayman is a 1989 UK TV movie starring Hugh Grant, Emma Samms, Lysette Anthony and Oliver Reed.

A flamboyant tale set in Protectorate England about an aristocratic rogue who falls for the woman he has sworn to defend. An adaptation of a novel by romance author Barbara Cartland.

The young lady Panthea Vyne falls in love with the handsome highwayman who saves her from her brutal husband. He kills him in a fair duel. Later on when Charles the 2nd is reinstated as King of England she attends the royal court. But here she becomes the enemy of the kings former mistress and the plot against her thickens.