17/10/1962 : The Duchess of Argyll pictured in London after the hearing of the High Court action in which it is alleged that she detained many Argyll heirlooms at her home in Upper Grosvenor Street, London. But then ensued the reality of high life being sometimes incompatible with real life. "She. Those scenes are filmed tastefully, or at least without too much emphasis on exploitation. The movie star was named as Margarets lover, one of the 88 men on the list that the Duke produced in court. Three parties a night. Campbell is on the make and Margaret is blind to it even when she is writing cheques to his creditors. Her beauty was much spoken of, and she had youthful romances with Prince Aly Khan, millionaire aviator Glen Kidston and publishing heir Max Aitken, later the second Lord Beaverbrook. Knocked up by David Niven at 15 (he was 18) Ethel Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll went on to a life that seemingly went from one scandal to next. The suspects included Hollywood actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr and German diplomat Sigismund von Braun, but chief among them was Duncan Sandys, the Minister of Defence and Winston Churchills son-in-law. It comes just days after Foy spoke out about how she hates doing sex scenes, saying they make her feel 'exploited' and that they are the 'grimmest thing you can do'. [7], She had three children with Sweeny: a daughter, who was stillborn at eight months in late 1933; another daughter, Frances Helen (born 1937, who married Charles Manners, 10th Duke of Rutland), and a son, Brian Charles (19402021). With her fortune diminished, she opened her London house at 48 Upper Grosvenor Street, which had been decorated for her parents in 1935 by Syrie Maugham,[19] for paid tours. He took Margaret, hung a scarlet letter around her neck, and hung her out for the crowds to pick at her. Margaret would realize her new husband, who was said to be a gambling and alcohol addict, was broke. Twitter users commented on how awkward it was to watch the three sex scenes in the presence of older family members. Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, and Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll, after their 1951 wedding at Caxton Hall in London. The Sexual Revolution with Virginia Nicholson, Anne Franks Legacy: How Her Story Changed the World. The couple divorced in 1947, and she went on to become engaged again to Lehman Brothers banker Joseph Thomas, although they never married. Ian owed a lot of money due to his own gambling addiction and he calculated that Margarets father might help him out financially. The pictures had been discovered by her husband, who allegedly hired a locksmith to gain access to his wife's private papers. After a string of high profile romances, Margaret married Ian Douglas Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll, in 1951. Viewers could have expected a fair few sex scenes in the series, after Foy said ahead of its launch that she finds filming them unpleasant, and that they make her feel 'exposed' and 'exploited'. Mr and Mrs Whigham believed relentless socialising was the best way to cure Margarets stammer, which they feared might turn her into a recluse. What is she for? Foy told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour:'It's a really hard line because basically you do feel exploited when you are a woman and you are having to perform fake sex on screen. Blissful. Lizzie May For Mailonline Its a pity the drama does not have time to explain the years of fame that came before her disgrace, and which shaped her. One of the explicit photographs presented in court was a Polaroid of the Duchess, wearing nothing but her signature triple-string of pearls, standing next to an unidentified man. The Duke was known to be addicted to alcohol, gambling and prescription drugs, and was described as physically violent and emotionally abusive by his first two wives, whose money he tried to use to maintain Inveraray Castle. Argyll forged a deed of sale before their marriage to gain him access to some of Margarets money. The Duchess refused to reveal who the man is, leaving the press to speculate about his identity. Sat 18 Dec 2021 02.00 EST. And then I heard that a television biopic, A Very British Scandal, was being made about her by the team behind A Very English Scandal, the series about Jeremy Thorpe. Who was Margaret the Duchess of Argyll? Dozens of cuttings in the Daily Mail archives describe her appearance at every ball her dresses, her jewellery, the young men jostling around her. Having sunk much of her fortune into Inveraray, she was also broke. Born on 1 December 1912, Margaret Whigham was the only daughter of a Scottish businessman and millionaire, George Hay Whigham and his wife, Helen Mann Hannay. What Did People Wear in Medieval England? She described herself as "always vain". And I have given up hopes of any improvement., Says Phelps, Shes sort of brilliant and tragic in a way, but also triumphant. A POLAROID picture was one of the key pieces of evidence in the scandalous divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll. He also compared the handwriting on the photos with handwriting samples from the men, and did apparently determine who the man in question was, although his identity remains a secret. The first episode of the three-part series, which aired last night, showed Margaret (Foy) seducing a man at a dinner party before romping with her on-screen husband at his Scottish stately home and in a cleaning cupboard at her parents' property. I apparently fell onto my knees and cracked the back of my head against the wall". Now, the story - which involved illicit Polaroid pictures and a maelstrom of headlines - is the inspiration behind the BBC's latest drama series, In Queen Margrethe II of Denmarks last interview before her extensive surgery, she spoke of the royal title drama and Crown Prince Frederiks future on the throne, Crown Princess Mary carries out solo engagement on visit to India with Crown Prince Frederik. [28], The Duchess once told The New York Times: "I don't think anybody has real style or class any more. 'How many men do you have?,' Bettany asks. Looks and charm and money, of course were the main things, alongside social rank. Many have retrospectively described her as the first woman to be publicly slut-shamed, and whilst the term is somewhat anachronistic, it was certainly one of the first times a womans sexuality was quite so publicly, roundly and explicitly condemned. You can't help but feel exploited. Spending her childhood in New York City, she returned to London around the age of 14 and subsequently began a series of romantic relationships with some of the biggest names of her day. The house was always packed with the most amusing people, sometimes 18 to dinner with another 10 joining afterwards, she told her biographer. Although the couple's personal relationship had ended long before the divorce, The Duke of Argyll was furious at the numerous affairs Margaret had during their marriage. Ivana Marie Zelnkov escaped from behind the Iron Curtain to storm New York City and help create the twisted miracle of Donald Trump. But angry that the duchess was no longer funding his excessive lifestyle, the duke hired private detectives to follow his wife. Margaret Argyll never learnt to boil a kettle and never once made her own bed. [5] Such had been the publicity surrounding her Norman Hartnell wedding dress that the traffic in Knightsbridge was blocked for three hours. For four decades, the money cascaded into the Whigham account year after year. [1] Before these pregnancies, she suffered eight miscarriages. This is the judgment, these are the cost. Ten minutes, max., Instead, after a court case that lasted 11 days, he dramatically ended the hearing with a 50,000-word judgment that took over three hours for him to read. In an age before commercial air travel, life on board ocean liners was a social stratosphere within itself. It is 1920s slang, for a woman who topples on to her back at the slightest touch. After that, life must have been hard, so very unglamorous and undeferential, and eventually she was reduced to one butler and one maid. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . She was not born into the aristocracy, but she was the only child of one of the richest men of his day, George Whigham. 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. Foy has said how uncomfortable they made her feel: Its grim, the grimmest thing you can do. 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She lost her home and, although eventually reconciled with Frances, her children put her in a nursing home in London, where she died penniless in 1993. Margaret wearing a pink ball gown in 1938. Her first husband concurred that she was never the same after this fall. Image Credit: PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo. Margaret Sweeny, nee Whigham, photographed in 1935. He first met Margaret by chance rather than design, sitting opposite her on the Golden Arrow train from Paris to London. "I thought he was such a bastard," Margaret told George Hume in a 1990. There was no legal recourse. My daughter had married a duke. Her photo appears alongside each report. Eight months after her wedding, the nation held its breath as she fought for her life, following a disastrous stillbirth. Margaret had eight miscarriages and a stillborn child before managing to produce two children: one became the Duchess of Rutland and mother to the current duke, the other a sensible businessman. As part of proceedings, Lord Denning, who had compiled a government report on one of the decades other scandals, the Profumo Affair, was tasked with investigating Margarets sexual partners in more depth: primarily this was because ministers were concerned Margaret might be a security risk if shehadbeen involved with senior government figures. ', Michael Wave, user @SzMarsupial joked: 'Sending thoughts and prayers to everyone else who is now locked into watching a very British scandal with their families, not realising how much sex there would be in it.'. What do you make of your life? an interviewer asked her in 1990. 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