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8 de may. de 2024 · The target of an impoverished duke, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll loved the company of men. In this article from the January 2021 issue of Tatler, discover what happened when her intimate polaroids were stolen - and the public turned against her
- Rebecca Cope
- Who Were The Duke and Duchess of Argyll?
- Why The Marriage Ended in Divorce
- What Happened During The Divorce Proceedings?
- How The Argyll Divorce Case Gives An Insight Into 20th Century Misogyny
- 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...
- Eloise Barry
22 de abr. de 2022 · Who Was the Real Duchess of Argyll? The true story behind A Very British Scandal , Amazon Prime's new series about the Scottish aristocrat and the scandalous divorce that rocked 1960s...
- Leena Kim
- Editor
- lkim@hearst.com
26 de dic. de 2021 · Margaret Campbell, the famously beautiful Duchess of Argyll, had been a celebrity – and a source of scandal – from even before her debutante days. But she would be remembered for just one thing: the so-called ‘divorce of the century’, which ended her marriage to the Duke of Argyll in 1963.
- Sarah Gristwood
27 de dic. de 2021 · A new BBC drama series is exploring the true story of the tumultuous relationship between the Duke and Duchess of Argyll. Airing over three consecutive nights from Boxing Day, A Very...
20 de abr. de 2022 · In it, The Crown actor plays British socialite, Margaret Whigham, better known as the Duchess of Argyll, whose high profile divorce led to the kind of tabloid fodder that would have Prince Charles and Camilla shaking in their boots.
In 1963, the Duchess of Argyll was accused by her husband of cheating on him with 88 different men. The accusation came in a divorce case that transfixed Britain and is at the centre of BBC...
