According to Lord Wheatley, the judge on the case, he had the morals of a tomcat. Bettany plays the duke with an absolute absence of sympathy. Ivana Marie Zelnkov escaped from behind the Iron Curtain to storm New York City and help create the twisted miracle of Donald Trump. She published a haughty memoir, Forget Not, in which she offered entertaining tips and entitlement in reamsbut nothing about the men shed written about in her diary. By the time her fall happens, there were plenty of people who were happy to facilitate that fall and make that fall a hell of a lot worse, says Phelps. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. The couple married in 1951, but their marriage soon turned sour. Everyone knows her as Oui Oui, because she agrees to everything though Margaret childishly calls her Wee Wee. They featured Margaret the Duchess, a former debutante of the year, in her Art Deco-style bathroom at her Upper Grosvenor Street home dressed in nothing but her signature three-strand pearl necklace. Her first husband concurred that she was never the same after this fall. By Ian Tyas/Keystone Features/Getty Images. His number Youre The Top namechecked the Colosseum, the feet of Fred Astaire and Mrs Sweeny. With irrefutable evidence, Argyll was granted his divorce. I had a really wonderful time from the period between 43 and 51. A POLAROID picture was one of the key pieces of evidence in the scandalous divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll. A Very British Scandalfocuses especially on the attitudes towards women at the time, as Margaret was vilified throughout the divorce battle for refusing to go quietly, despite being betrayed by friends and publicly shamed by society. And what were the infamous Polaroid photos that proved so contentious? But it became a trial, says Phelps. [She was] a passionate woman with her own morality, because anybody that doesnt give up their friends, that cuts a lot of ice with me.. I told the truth. The Grit in the Pearl : The Scandalous Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll by Lyndsy Spence published by The History Press Ltd RRP 20. The first woman to be slut shamed. [2], In fact, Margaret was not mentioned in Porter's original version of "You're the Top". Dubbed the divorce of the century, the subsequent swirl of rumours, gossip, scandal and sex captivated the nation. Dozens of cuttings in the Daily Mail archives describe her appearance at every ball her dresses, her jewellery, the young men jostling around her. She went on to have four failed engagements before a failed marriage to Charles Sweeny, an Irish-American stockbroker. 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. Ethel Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll (ne 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. Lord Denning, who was called upon by the government to track down the "headless man", compared the handwriting of the five leading "suspects", (Duncan Sandys; Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; John Cohane, an American businessman; Peter Combe, a former press officer at the Savoy Hotel; and Sigismund von Braun, brother of the German scientist Wernher von Braun) with the captions written on the photographs. Nobody, nobody, nobody. 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. 'It's grim - it's the grimmest thing you can do. 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. A POLAROID picture was one of the key pieces of evidence in the scandalous divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll. On 22 March 1951, Margaret became the third wife of Ian Douglas Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll. Everyones got old and fat.. At the time of their first meeting, the Duke was still married to Louise Timpson. 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. This was his third marriage - after wedding Janet Gladys Aitken and Louise Hollingsworth Morris Vanneck. As a young woman, her beauty was renowned in society and she was courted by princes and millionaires, welcoming playwright Noel Coward, actor Cary Grant and oil tycoon J Paul Getty, among others, to her Mayfair home. Margarets privacy had been violated and sexual desires condemned because she was a woman. [18], The Duchess wrote a memoir, Forget Not (published by W. H. Allen Ltd in 1975) which was reviewed negatively for its name-dropping and air of entitlement. [14], The Duchess counter-petitioned the divorce, accusing the Duke of committing adultery with her stepmother, Jane Corby Wigham. The men, on the other hand, were interesting or powerful and hailed from across the world. The target of an impoverished duke, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll loved the company of men. After completing her education in New York, she moved back to the UK, where her beauty and status as an heiress made her much in-demand on the social scene. . Following the scandal, he offered to resign from the cabinet but his resignation was declined. . At 15, she became pregnant by David Niven; a termination was arranged and this scandal hushed up. You can't help but feel exploited. Moments after they had sex, he asked Margaret for her hand in marriage. The first episode took place just 16 minutes into the first episode, between Margaret and an unnamed stranger she meets at a fun-filled dinner party. But angry that the duchess was no longer funding his excessive lifestyle, the duke hired private detectives to follow his wife. Vile moment baby is given a vape to inhale by her laughing mum - who lashes out on Facebook slamming anyone who Ukraine 'hits major Russian air base in fresh strike' a day after kamikaze drone crashed down just 68 miles from 'I'm glad the contract expired': Heston Blumenthal's fury as Waitrose ends 12-year partnership with him 'after ISIS fanatic jailed over the gruesome beheading of two Scandinavian women hikers in Morocco that shocked the Police will quiz missing aristocrat and her boyfriend for another 36 hours to try and get answers on missing House votes to block 'woke' Biden plan pushing retirement planners to invest in ESG in 401ks. Healthy mother-of-two, 32, collapsed and died from brain bleed while she led fitness bounce class. Margaret Whigham was a sensation to British society when she arrived from America as a teenager in the 1920s. Tatler is mischievous, glamorous, intelligent and fun, providing an insider's view of what is really happening in British society with a compelling mix of fashion, the arts, politics, people, parties and glamour.Tatler UKTatler contributorsThe BYSTANDER Everything about everybody everywhereDI. He was American airline executive William "Bill" Lyons, according to Duchess Margaret Campbell's ex-daughter-in-law. He was a bad man before he went in,says Phelps. Well, some ghastly mistakes, she laughed. She wrote later in life: I had wealth, I had good looks. "For 50 years it has been safely, maybe too safely, kept . It was supposed to be a divorce hearing. 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But shes iconic, says Phelps, who is thrilled that U.S. viewers will learn of this unconventional woman when A Very British Scandal premieres. The daughter of a textile millionaire, she dazzled with her beauty (green eyes, fair skin, red lipstick), devil-may-care social strategy (she double-booked men for the evening), and nouveau riche accoutrement (she was chauffeured to and from school in a Rolls-Royce, skied at St. Moritz, and wore gowns from Norman Hartnell). I was as good of a witness as I could be. I must have clutched at it, for it was later found that all my fingernails were torn off. As a young woman I had been constantly photographed, written about, flattered, admired, included in the Ten Best-Dressed Women in the World list, and mentioned by Cole Porter in the words of his hit song "You're the Top". She tried the Law Lords, [which] decided that Ian is perfectly within his right to use as evidence against his wife material that he burgled from her house. She was targeted by an impoverished duke who had inherited the dukedom of Argyll faute de mieux (he was the first cousin once removed of the 10th duke) and a castle in ruins the Gothic revival Inveraray. He spent the entire war pretty much in a prisoner of war camp, a death camp. The Queen epitomises everything selfless, noble and honest about a traditional ruling class. She was taken into a London nursing home for a secret abortion. GameStop Moderna Pfizer Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Walgreens Best Buy Novavax SpaceX Tesla. [20], In 1978, Margaret's debts forced her to move from Upper Grosvenor Street and relocate with her maid to a suite at the Grosvenor House Hotel. There promises to be more raciness in the second episode, which airs tonight, with Claire Foy recreating the Duchess of Argyll's infamous naked Polaroid, in which she was pictured pleasuring a naked man, whose head was cropped out of the frame. Who was Margaret the Duchess of Argyll? She also had a serious romantic relationship with Theodore Rousseau, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who was, she recalled, "highly intelligent, witty and self-confident to the point of arrogance". The two began living separately, but the dramatics still escalated. It was like Princess Diana, Kim Kardashianthis globally famous beauty.. Fighting in the Fog: Who Won the Battle of Barnet? The house was always packed with the most amusing people, sometimes 18 to dinner with another 10 joining afterwards, she told her biographer. ', Louise Teboul similarly said: 'Watching A Very British Scandal with my mother-in-law and OH [other half] - didn't realise there was going to be so much sex in it - awkward. 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. She was presented as a debutante in 1930, and after early romances with Prince Aly Khan, aviator Glen Kidston, Baron Martin Stillman von Brabus and publishing heir Max Aitken (later the second Lord Beaverbrook) and Prince George, Duke of Kent, she became engaged to Charles Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick. But when her racy private photographs were stolen, scandal turned the public against her, 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, Dove / Daily Express / Getty Images / Hulton Archive, Bert Hardy / Picture Post / Hulton Archive / Getty Images. Ian was charming, witty and aristocratic, and although he was married at the time to his second wife (he only married rich women), Margaret took him back to her flat and went to bed with him after the train arrived in London. 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. The pictures were part of a legal case the duke drew up against the duchess as part of divorce proceedings, alongside a list of 88 men he accused her of having sex with behind his back. Blissful. She was absolutely appalled. [5] Such had been the publicity surrounding her Norman Hartnell wedding dress that the traffic in Knightsbridge was blocked for three hours. 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 pairs marriage disintegrated as quickly as it came about: both husband and wife were serially unfaithful, and Margaret forged papers suggesting her husbands children from his previous marriages were illegitimate. Now there may be a showdown brewing over billions of dollars in kids fare. Second World War veteran or not, he is without any redeeming grace or even charm. Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, and Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll, after their 1951 wedding at Caxton Hall in London. [11], Within a few years, the marriage was falling apart. Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, at an event with her friend, Lady Edith Foxwell, in 1959. The man is summed up when we see him at his hobby, collecting butterflies and mounting them on a board with a pin through the thorax. Despite having a daughter, Frances, and a son, Brian, together, the couples relationship broke down after 14 years, with Margaret claiming all Charlie wanted in a spouse was a pretty brainless doll and they divorced in 1947. He first met Margaret by chance rather than design, sitting opposite her on the Golden Arrow train from Paris to London. During the divorce proceedings, he listed 88 men who he believed his wife had an affair with, including Hollywood actors, two government ministers and three British royals. Life was apparently roses all the way. Foy has said how uncomfortable they made her feel: Its grim, the grimmest thing you can do. to "You're Mussolini / You're Mrs Sweeny". The number allegedly included cabinet members, Hollywood actors, and members of the royal family. 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. Those scenes are filmed tastefully, or at least without too much emphasis on exploitation. [8] The Duchess herself forged letters to sow doubt about the fatherhood of Ian Campbell, the Marquess of Lorne, and Lord Colin Campbell, her husband's sons from his second marriage to Louise Timpson; and she even tried to acquire a newborn baby she could pass off as her husband's rightful heir. Who took her seriously at the time? It took the judge more than three hours to read out his damning judgment at the end of one of the longest, most expensive and toxic divorce cases of the 20th century . The identity of the Headless Man was never revealed during her lifetime. One compares her to a sex-addicted chimpanzee. Her debutante years are 20 years behind her and belong to a different, pre-war world. [2], In 1928 the future actor David Niven, then 18, had sex with 15-year-old Margaret during a holiday at Bembridge on the Isle of Wight. Through first-class education and living in the right places, giving the most generous parties and making sure Margaret was dressed in the best clothes, Whigham managed to springboard his daughter into society so much so that she was pronounced Debutante of the Year in 1930. [22] In 1990, unable to pay the hotel bills, she was evicted and, with the support of friends and her first husband, moved into an apartment. Margaret Campbell, the Duchess of Argyll is a fascinating and infuriating subject, for history has not been kind to her. She described herself as "always vain". But by the early 1960s, Margarets fortunes had reversed on an epic scale. She took pity on him and convinced her father to give him 100,000 to restore his family seat in Scotland, Inveraray Castle. They did not. Divorced from Sweeny when we first meet her in the late 1940s, she is plainly a racy celebrity, one who adores predatory male attention but lacks any instinct for self-preservation. "[17] Many of the men the Duchess was alleged to have slept with were homosexual; she was unwilling to divulge this as sexual acts between men were illegal in the United Kingdom at the time. Her own generation would chuckle if her name came up and refer to the Headless Man scandal, as though that had been the only interesting thing about Margarets long life. She is best remembered as a nymphomaniac socialite who disgraced the House of Argyll when a collection of diaries and explicit Polaroids were stolen by her husband, Ian Campbell, the 11th Duke of Argyll, to be used as . one of the most notorious, extraordinary and brutal legal cases of the 20th century. [27] It was reprinted in 1995 by Pan Books, and in 2021, to coincide with the TV series A Very British Scandal, by Swift Press. Thanks @PhelpsieSarah! The duchess and her daughter, Frances Sweeny, 1955. In an age where aristocratic women were primarily simply required to be beautiful and wealthy, Margaret found herself with no shortage of suitors and was named debutante of the year in 1930. With Ian broke and unpredictable, her focus shifted to restoring her husbands decrepit castle, likely believing it to be an investment in their future. "All hell broke loose," remembered her family cook, Elizabeth Duckworth. The claim was watertight and Margaret knew she would be unsuccessful but wanted to give her rival a run for the money. Margaret would realize her new husband, who was said to be a gambling and alcohol addict, was broke. 16:57 GMT 27 Dec 2021. After the historic case she never remarried, and lost much of her fortune in later life. 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. By 1959, and determined to divorce since Margarets father had decided to stop paying his bills, he had gained access to her Queen Anne house on Upper Grosvenor Street while she was abroad, and called in a locksmith to crack the locks of the private drawers and cupboards containing her memorabilia. After a teen dalliance with actor David Niven, she dated Pakistani diplomat Aly Khan, millionaire aviator Glen Kidston, publishing heir Max Aitken, and Prince George, Duke of Kent, before settling down for the first of two marriages. The legal bills cost her a fortune. The 26-year-old turned herself in this week following a search that captivated certain corners of New York. The judge did not release compromising images of her but did describe them in clear detail. [26] He then published The Duchess Who Dared The Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll in 1994. She is penniless, says Phelps. She was just 15 when the future movie star David Niven, two years her senior, got her pregnant while holidaying on the Isle of Wight, after which her father sent her to a London nursing home for a secret termination. But why was this divorce case particularly scandalous? The top was what I was supposed to be. Usually accompanied by her poodle Alphonse, and a gay male escort, her face was always expressionless, a Canute-like attempt to hold back the onset of wrinkles. This drama captures that sense of national outrage in those opening shots, as the duchesss car is besieged on a London street by onlookers who hurl abuse and spit at the windows. Read More: Is A Very British Scandal Based on a True Story? Lauren Pazienza, Whose Shove Allegedly Killed a Beloved Manhattan Vocal Coach, Argues She Is Getting a Raw Deal. Lord Dennings report has been sealed until 2063: it was reviewed after 30 years by the then Prime Minister, John Major, who decided to keep the testimonies firmly sealed for a further 70 years. Margaret's rumoured affair with the ex-press officer at the Savoy was named as one of the key affairs in the divorce proceedings. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. What Did People Wear in Medieval England? The judge commented that the Duchess had indulged in "disgusting sexual activities". The Father of History: Who Was Herodotus. Central to the case was a set of blurry Polaroid snaps taken via the bathroom mirror of the duchess's Mayfair apartment of her wearing nothing but her signature triple string of pearls. Famed for her charisma, beauty, and style, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, dominated the front pages, as the divorce exposed accusations of forgery, theft, violence, drug-taking, bribery, and an explicit Polaroid picture that was to haunt her for the rest of her life. That, and three strands of pearls!" The mystery man in the explicit photo became known as the 'headless man&# Meeting by chance on a train, Argyll told Margaret of some of his experiences as a prisoner of war during World War Two, omitting the fact that the trauma had left him reliant on alcohol and prescription drugs. The type, to be harsh, is familiar today. 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 mystery was only recently put to bed by Lady Colin Campbell, who disclosed in 2013 that the man was the American executive Bill Lyons. Inside Wealth-Conference Con Man Anthony Ritossas Wild Web of Lies, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodwards Daughters Appreciated the Fuck Hut Detail Too. She was among the VIP guests at his London memorial service. The duke then signed a Deed of Gift offering various items as security for the money, and vowed to marry her when his own divorce had come through. In 1943, she suffered a catastrophic fall that left her with 30 stitches and a broken vertebra, temporarily unable to walk. Looks and charm and money, of course were the main things, alongside social rank. [24] She was buried alongside her first husband, Charles Sweeny, who had died only four months earlier, in Brookwood Cemetery in Woking, Surrey. Margaret was identifiable by the diamond clasps of her trademark three-strand pearls and distinctive hairstyle. 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. But strip away the sense of duty and decency, and what you are left with is the Duchess of Argyll riches without real value, privilege without a raison detre. [21] In April 1988, on the evening after the Grand National, she appeared on a Channel 4 After Dark discussion about horse racing "so she said, to put the point of view of the horse", later walking out of the programme "because she was so very sleepy". We will send you the latest TV programmes, podcast episodes and articles, as well as exclusive offers from our shop and carefully selected partners. The comments below have not been moderated, By Bogus pregnancies and bloodline discrediting in the days before DNA testing could prove the cases either way. [10], Granting the divorce, Lord Wheatley, the presiding judge, said the evidence established that the Duchess "was a completely promiscuous woman whose sexual appetite could only be satisfied with a number of men". [1] Before these pregnancies, she suffered eight miscarriages. By Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images. Wheatley is a Puritan, Phelps explains. She continued giving the occasional TV interview, usually with one of her many beloved poodles in tow. All rights reserved. Claire Foy plays Campbell in, Jimmy Kimmel Roasts Fragile Snowflake Donald Trump for Allegedly Trying to Censor Him, The Johnny DeppAmber Heard Defamation Trial: The Makings of a Remarkable Moment in American Celebrity. Margaret carried on, though her final chapters were still quite sad. [16], A list of as many as 88 men with whom the Duke believed his wife had consorted was produced. Its a pity the drama does not have time to explain the years of fame that came before her disgrace, and which shaped her. "She. She was 35. Before she became known as the Duchess of Argyll, Margaret Whigham, born 1912, was an heiress of a Scottish businessman and millionaire. Margaret's racy sex life was judged immoral at the time but, as this three-part drama is at pains to show, she wasn't the only one at it. The Sexual Revolution with Virginia Nicholson, Anne Franks Legacy: How Her Story Changed the World. The German diplomat and brother of the Nazi scientist Werner von Braun, who invented the Nazis V-2 rocket, was another possible candidate for the 'headless man' in photo. The Duchess, Margaret Campbell, was a British socialite known for her lavish lifestyle and a string of high-profile affairs. Fairbanks Jr and Margaret both denied he was the Headless Man, but he was identified through his handwriting. 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