Those scenes are filmed tastefully, or at least without too much emphasis on exploitation. 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. In 1951 she wed Ian Douglas Campbell, the 11th Duke of Argyll, after meeting him on a train at Pariss Gare du Nord station in 1949. The judge did not release compromising images of her but did describe them in clear detail. What few knew then was that she had been pregnant before, aged just 15 the result of a love affair with a teenage David Niven. Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, at an event with her friend, Lady Edith Foxwell, in 1959. Everyone can make you try to not feel that way but it's unfortunately the reality.'. [1] Her numerous early romances included an affair with Prince George, Duke of Kent. Married in 1951, Margaret was at the height of her fame as a glamorous and stylish socialite, and had even been name-dropped in Cole Porter's song, You're the Top. But Margarets reign as a femme fatale was to come to an end. The first woman to be slut shamed. 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. 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. Even her mother (Phoebe Nicholls) has nothing but contempt for her: My daughter, an adulteress, a round-heel the squalor of it.. The headless man, or men, in the photographs were never identified. "I thought he was such a bastard," Margaret told George Hume in a 1990. . It was speculated that this "headless man" was the Minister of Defence Duncan Sandys (later Lord Duncan-Sandys, son-in-law of Winston Churchill), who offered to resign from the cabinet. [8], In 1943, Margaret had a near-fatal fall down a lift shaft. I had this house [on Upper Grosvenor Street]. She later discovered that her husband had led her to believe she had legal claim to the property, in reality it would be passed down to Ians sons from a prior marriage. "[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. 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. Hed been delighted to find Polaroids of naked men, with only the torsos visible, being loomed over by a woman, her face hidden from view. He has no intention of entirely ditching his American second wife, Louise (Sophia Myles). 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. (One series) Just weeks after the divorce was finalized, with Margarets reputation ruined and her bank account drained, Ian went on to marry another wealthy woman and suffered a stroke in the South of France, before being transferred back to Scotland where he later died. Having got her own way for 51 years, it is little wonder she behaved badly to try to keep on getting it. The first episode of A Very British Scandal took viewers by surprise as they watched The Crown's Claire Foy enjoy three sex scenes in the first 30 minutes of the first episode - with two different men. Her photo appears alongside each report. She was 35. Inside, he discovered a cache of evidence of her infidelities, including Polaroid pictures of her with another man. She became a life-long patron of the designer, as well as Victor Stiebel and Angle Delanghe. Margaret, Duchess of Argyll with her poodle in 1989. 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 . The Queen epitomises everything selfless, noble and honest about a traditional ruling class. Eight months after her wedding, the nation held its breath as she fought for her life, following a disastrous stillbirth. As indisputable proof of the duchesss misadventure, however, the Polaroids were the clincher. The duchess and her daughter, Frances Sweeny, 1955. She described herself as "always vain". 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'. After that, life must have been hard, so very unglamorous and undeferential, and eventually she was reduced to one butler and one maid. With Ian broke and unpredictable, her focus shifted to restoring her husbands decrepit castle, likely believing it to be an investment in their future. Three parties a night. She continued giving the occasional TV interview, usually with one of her many beloved poodles in tow. But if there was one thing Margaret learned over the decades and her various scandals, it was that she could not and would not ever change. Who took her seriously at the time? In his summing up before granting the divorce to the duke, the Scottish judge pronounced that Margaret was a highly sexed woman who had ceased to be satisfied with normal relations and had started to indulge in what I can only describe as disgusting sexual activities to gratify a basic sexual appetite. It was like Princess Diana, Kim Kardashianthis globally famous beauty.. Whilst there may well have been an attraction between them, Margarets money was a key factor in the decision to marry: the Dukes ancestral home, Inveraray Castle, was crumbling and badly needed an injection of cash. You would go and stand outside the churches where such women were getting married, just to be a part of the huge excitement and touch the hem of history.. In 1930, as 17-year-old debutante Margaret Whigham entering London society, she was regarded as the most beautiful woman in England. The third comes very shortly after, at 29 minutes, just before Margaret takes Ian to meet her father for his approval of their marriage. She took pity on him and convinced her father to give him 100,000 to restore his family seat in Scotland, Inveraray Castle. Another, racier Polaroid, showing the Duchess pleasuring a man, was also produced. Born in 1912, she was still around in the early 1980s when our paths would sometimes cross in London. [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). [3], In 1930 Margaret was presented at Court in London and was known as the debutante of that year. [14], The Duchess counter-petitioned the divorce, accusing the Duke of committing adultery with her stepmother, Jane Corby Wigham. Born Ethel Margaret Whigham in 1912, in Newton Mearns, she was the only child of Helen (nee Hannay), a woman prone to extreme mood-swings, and George Whigham, a self-made millionaire and. . Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, died aged 80 in a nursing home in Pimlico, London, just a few days before the Major government decided to keep all the testimonies given to Lord Denning under wraps . Thanks @PhelpsieSarah! Neither the good years, in which I laughed and danced and lived upon a cloud of happiness; nor the bad years of near despair, when I learned what life and people and friendship really were.. The only women who had glamorous lives were film stars, princesses or members of the aristocracy. Margaret was identifiable by the diamond clasps of her trademark three-strand pearls and distinctive hairstyle. [6] For the rest of her life, Margaret was associated with glamour and elegance, being a firm client of Hartnell, Victor Stiebel, and Angele Delanghe in London before and after the Second World War. That romance also ended without the couple formalising their liaison, since the mother of two "feared that Ted was not 'stepfather material'". In several photos, Margaret was wearing only a string of her trademark pearls. I do not forget. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll's infamous 1963 divorce captured the public's attention with its twists and scandalous revelations. Inside Wealth-Conference Con Man Anthony Ritossas Wild Web of Lies, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodwards Daughters Appreciated the Fuck Hut Detail Too. Upon seeing the presented evidence in court, the judge, Lord Wheatley, said: There is enough in her own admissions and proven facts to establish that by 1960 she was a completely promiscuous woman whose sexual appetite could only be satisfied with a number of men. Paul Bettany and Claire Foy as Ian and Margaret while filming at the actual Inveraray Castle. The Duchess died in penury in 1993 after a bad fall in the nursing home. Her pleasures are vapid, her friends are sarcastic. The presiding judge, in his 50,000-word judgement, described Margaret as a completely promiscuous woman' who was wholly immoral because she engaged in disgusting sexual activities. In some, she was entertaining an unidentified lover whose head had been cropped out of the picture and who came to be known as the 'Headless Man'. [9][10], According to Lyndsy Spence, a biographer of the Duchess, the Duke of Argyll forged a deed of sale (sometimes called a deed of gift, thus offering various items from Inveraray Castle as security) before their marriage in exchange for her money used to restore his family home at Inveraray, and wiretapped her car. But angry that the duchess was no longer funding his excessive lifestyle, the duke hired private detectives to follow his wife. All rights reserved. Margaret wearing a pink ball gown in 1938. Hundreds of history documentaries, ad free podcasts and subscriber rewards. When the CEO of Scholastic died suddenly last year, he left control of the family empire to a former colleaguehis ex-girlfriend. It seems Margarets nouveau riche status had always bothered Londons old-money scene, even as Margarets parents spent plenty of cash funding her societal risepaying over 40,000 pounds for her coming-out party. I feel a bit ashamed because until I started looking into her life I had written off Margaret, Duchess of Argyll as no more than a joke figure. 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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. Born Margaret Whigham, the future Duchess of Argyll was the only daughter of a Scottish materials millionaire. In 1951, she married the 11th Duke of Argyll, who was popular, charming and handsome, but also malicious, addicted to alcohol and gambling, and a shameless sponger. User @strutcakes said: 'Watching A Very British Scandal in front of my parents was not the best idea. Though she did once say "the only Polaroid camera in the country" was kept at the Ministry of Defence. Second World War veteran or not, he is without any redeeming grace or even charm. Sex, secrets and suspicion the true story of a duchess publicly shamed in a high society divorce that gripped the nation. 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. Even at 37 seeing sex scenes on TV with them in the room is all kinds of awkward. [16], A list of as many as 88 men with whom the Duke believed his wife had consorted was produced. She struck a lonely figure many times during the first hour, whether trying to entertain her step-children or plunging into a one-night stand after a party, but she never looked more alone than when the public turned on her. At the age of 15, she became pregnant with the actor David Niven's child while on a holiday on the Isle of Wight, but the pregnancy was terminated. Who was Franoise Dior, the Neo-Nazi Heiress and Socialite? Margaret, the Duchess of Argyll on the June 1969 cover of Tatler. [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". It shows Margaret arriving atInveraray Castle in Scotland, the home of Ian Campbell, the Duke of Argyll. The duke began proceedings on grounds of infidelity. The type, to be harsh, is familiar today. 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). She died aged 80 in 1993. 'It's grim - it's the grimmest thing you can do. Now there may be a showdown brewing over billions of dollars in kids fare. That word round-heel sums up the pious hypocrisy of the era. [4], On 21 February 1933, following her conversion to Roman Catholicism,[2] Margaret married Sweeny at the Brompton Oratory, London. 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. With a rigid poise that mixes froideur with fear, Foy makes Margaret both defiant and pitiful. As such, Margaret developed a stammer for which she was treated unsuccessfully by Lionel Logue, King George VI's speech therapist. But the duke soon showed his true colours, with rumours of gambling and drug and alcohol addiction, as well as a vile temper. It was evident from the beginning that the . The legal bills cost her a fortune. There was no legal recourse. to "You're Mussolini / You're Mrs Sweeny". 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". Society ached to know his identity, and the duke was even required to pose naked to prove the torso wasnt his. Everyone knows her as Oui Oui, because she agrees to everything though Margaret childishly calls her Wee Wee. Ian had referred to Margaret as Satan. The mystery man in the explicit photo became known as the 'headless man&# Debutantes were not expected to discuss the great issues of the day but merely to issue pleasant tinkling laughs while the man spoke. [8], The Duchess never revealed the identity of the "headless man", and Fairbanks always denied the allegation. Imagine the courage that takes., Shes a hot mess. What Was the Atlantic Wall and When Was It Built? She was briefly engaged to the Earl of Warwick, before marrying Charles Sweeny, a fellow wealthy American. While granting the divorce, the judge said of Margaret that she 'was a completely promiscuous woman whose sexual appetite could only be satisfied with a number of men. After the case Margaret fell out with her daughter Frances, who had not wanted her to oppose the divorce, and thanks to her extravagant lifestyle and some bad investments her fortune diminished. [14] In 2013, the daughter-in-law of the 11th Duke, Lady Colin Campbell, stated that the "headless man" was an American executive named Bill Lyons. 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. Margaret carried on, though her final chapters were still quite sad. And the first woman to be a megastar to find the public turning against her. 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She was on the mailing list of every PR company since she was a duchess and it was known she would go to the opening of the proverbial envelope. Bogus pregnancies and bloodline discrediting in the days before DNA testing could prove the cases either way. Fairbanks Jr and Margaret both denied he was the Headless Man, but he was identified through his handwriting. 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. 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. Margaret Whigham was a sensation to British society when she arrived from America as a teenager in the 1920s. Getty Images. 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. 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