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Dec 23, 2021 · A wealthy heiress and one of the most colourful figures of the swinging sixties, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, married the Duke of Argyll, her second husband, in 1951. 12 years later, the duke sued for divorce, accusing Margaret of infidelity and producing evidence, in the form of Polaroid photographs of Margaret engaged in sexual acts, to prove it.
- Sarah Roller
Apr 22, 2022 · How the Argyll divorce case gives an insight into 20th century misogyny. Details of the Duke’s infidelities weren’t mentioned during the proceedings. Campbell was also not questioned over the ...
- Eloise Barry
Jane Beadon (stepmother) Ethel Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll ( née Whigham, formerly Sweeny; 1 December 1912 – 25 July 1993) was a Scottish heiress, socialite, and aristocrat who was most famous for her 1951 marriage and much-publicised 1963 divorce from her second husband, Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll. [1]
Dec 26, 2021 · New BBC drama A Very British Scandal will catapult viewers into a vicious society divorce battle that saw one woman’s reputation raked over in the 1960s tabloids. . Biographer and historian Sarah Gristwood considers the real figures at the centre of the drama – including the so-called ‘headless man’ – and how the case reflects the changing attitudes of a
- Sarah Gristwood
Mar 12, 2021 · The couple divorced in 1947. Campbell married the Duke of Argyll, Ian Douglas Campbell, her second husband, in 1951 when she was 38. Why was the Duke and Duchess of Argyll’s divorce so explosive?
Apr 22, 2022 · Alan Peebles. Claire Foy as the Duchess of Argyll in A Very British Scandal. A Very British Scandal, starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany as the doomed couple, is a three-part limited series that ...
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The Argyll’s bitter divorce case – which also featured accusations of forgery, theft, violence, drug-taking, secret recording and bribery – dominated the front pages and society columns in 1963.
