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A Very British Scandal is a 2021 historical drama miniseries starring Claire Foy as Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll and Paul Bettany as Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll. [1] While not a direct sequel or continuation, its production company, Blueprint Pictures, previously made A Very English Scandal (2018), about the Thorpe affair. [2]
- Who Were The Duke and Duchess of Argyll?
- Why The Marriage Ended in Divorce
- What Happened During The Divorce Proceedings?
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- What Happened to The Duchess of Argyll?
Before she became known as the Duchess of Argyll, Margaret Whigham, born 1912, was an heiress of a Scottish businessman and millionaire. Famed for her beauty, Margaret moved through the most desirable social circles as a debutante and was engaged four times by the age of 19. She reportedlyunderwent an illegal abortion aged 15. In 1933, aged 20, she...
The Duke and Margaret married in 1951—Margaret became an aristocrat and the Duke gained much-needed financial relief from his many gambling debts through her inheritance and money from her previous marriage. Their marriage was rocky from the start; both had numerous lovers throughout their relationship and distrusted one another. The Duke reportedl...
The Duke applied for divorce on the grounds of adultery, and claimed that Margaret had slept with 88 men. During the hearing, he presented the compromising Polaroids, depicting Margaret, wearing nothing but her signature pearls, performing a sex act on a man whose head was cropped from the photo. The identity of the lover was never revealed—though ...
Details of the Duke’s infidelities weren’t mentioned during the proceedings. Campbell was also not questioned over the theft and display of Margaret’s private photos—which would now be considered revenge porn. Although societal attitudes were changing as Britain headed in the 1960s, and the contraceptive pill became more readily available, women we...
Although defiant in the face of the cruel gossip and societal judgment, Margaret never quite recovered from the divorce proceedings. She was ordered by a judge to pay the bulkof her ex-husband’s legal fees of £50,000—over $1.4 million today. Over the decades that followed, her fortune dwindled. In a bid to capitalize on her public notoriety, she op...
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Apr 6, 2022 · Claire Foy plays Campbell in A Very British Scandal, premiering April 22 on Amazon. By Julie Miller. April 6, 2022. Getty Images. Margaret Whigham was a sensation to British society...
Apr 22, 2022 · Before meeting Ian Campbell, the Duke of Argyll, on a train from Paris, Margaret was engaged to a Lehman Brothers banker, who—in what might have seemed a bit karmic—broke it off with her...
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Her divorce from the Duke of Argyll was dramatised in the BBC/Amazon Studios miniseries A Very British Scandal, written by Sarah Phelps and broadcast in 2021, starring Claire Foy as the Duchess. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] [ 34 ]
One of the longest, most scandalous divorces in British history, the case’s most shocking evidence was a Polaroid photograph, stolen from Margaret’s personal belongings by her husband,...
Apr 22, 2022 · Margaret Campbell, former Duchess of Argyll and wife of Ian Campbell, Duke of Argyll, was the center of a scandal that exploded in 1960s Britain. The couple's tumultuous relationship and subsequent divorce precipitated events that created a tabloid frenzy and, decades later, a BBC television show starring Claire Foy known as A Very British Scandal.
