[4], On 21 February 1933, following her conversion to Roman Catholicism,[2] Margaret married Sweeny at the Brompton Oratory, London. She also lent her name as author to a guide to entertaining. [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". The judge commented that the Duchess had indulged in "disgusting sexual activities". Fulke Warwick and Max Aitken became engaged to her, but she broke off these engagements before marrying Charles Sweeny, a handsome American golfing hero. He also produced 13 Polaroid pictures he had found which showed the duchess and two naked men in her bathroom. Dubbed the divorce of the century, the subsequent swirl of rumours, gossip, scandal and sex captivated the nation. The first time we glimpse Claire Foy as the forlornly imperious Duchess of Argyll, she is a prisoner in the back of her own limousine, surrounded by a public that hates her. had ceased to be satisfied with normal relations and had started to indulge in disgusting sexual activities. 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. Vanity Fair may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. He was American airline executive William "Bill" Lyons, according to Duchess Margaret Campbell's ex-daughter-in-law. Her romances were legend. [2], The Sweenys divorced in 1947. He had made a fortune successfully marketing a new type of artificial silk called Celanese. Long afterwards, it was claimed that there were actually two "headless men" in the photographs, Fairbanks and Sandys, the latter identified on the basis of the Duchess's statement that "the only Polaroid camera in the country at that time had been lent to the Ministry of Defence". Twitter users commented on how awkward it was to watch the three sex scenes in the presence of older family members. By Ian Tyas/Keystone Features/Getty Images. [1] However, the wedding did not take place because she preferred Charles Francis Sweeny (1910-1993), an American businessman and amateur golfer from a wealthy Pennsylvania family. [5] Such had been the publicity surrounding her Norman Hartnell wedding dress that the traffic in Knightsbridge was blocked for three hours. [3], In 1930 Margaret was presented at Court in London and was known as the debutante of that year. And thank God Ive had it., George Whigham made sure Margaret had a different couture dress for each event and was so tireless in promoting his daughter that he was accused of hiring press agents. That, and three strands of pearls!" All rights reserved. [16], A list of as many as 88 men with whom the Duke believed his wife had consorted was produced. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. To convey all that is an impossible task but Foy manages to hint at so much not the detail, but the substance. Her attitude to the sanctity of marriage was what moderns would call enlightened but which in plain language was wholly immoral.'. 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. [1] After the end of her first marriage, Margaret was briefly engaged to a Texas-born banker, Joseph Thomas of Lehman Brothers, but he fell in love with another woman and the engagement was broken. The couple divorced in 1947, and she went on to become engaged again to Lehman Brothers banker Joseph Thomas, although they never married. Sex is all she is good for. Born in 1912, she was still around in the early 1980s when our paths would sometimes cross in London. 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. Life was so simple. Campbell is on the make and Margaret is blind to it even when she is writing cheques to his creditors. 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. About Us; Staff; Camps; Scuba. Inside the sad decline of 'Fairy Floss Girl': How the racegoer who shot to fame when Kyle Sandilands gushed that Student who refused to enter arranged marriage was stabbed in the chest with a metal spike by her uncle and Theatre issues trigger warning for production which 'involves the handling of a cooked egg'. In an age before commercial air travel, life on board ocean liners was a social stratosphere within itself. to "You're Mussolini / You're Mrs Sweeny". Margaret is played by Claire Foy (our young Queen in The Crown), with a script by Sarah Phelps. Fighting in the Fog: Who Won the Battle of Barnet? In those days, one episode of adultery was enough to justify a divorce. After his death, George Whighams assets were less than had been assumed and the 18,000 a year income from the trust fund barely covered Margarets living expenses. This was his third marriage - after wedding Janet Gladys Aitken and Louise Hollingsworth Morris Vanneck. Margaret Sweeny, nee Whigham, photographed in 1935. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. The judge did not release compromising images of her but did describe them in clear detail. Her first husband concurred that she was never the same after this fall. The duke divorced Margaret in 1963 and she died in 1993 30 years of infamy that starkly contrasted with the splendour of her youth. The couple married in 1951, but their marriage soon turned sour after the Duke accused Margaret of being unfaithful. In 1990, three years before her death, Margaret reflected on the absurdly high highs and low lows of her life, in an interview quoted by The Telegraph. Sat 18 Dec 2021 02.00 EST. 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. 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. They did not. She was absolutely appalled. [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. The house was always packed with the most amusing people, sometimes 18 to dinner with another 10 joining afterwards, she told her biographer. And it would be totally different., 2023 Cond Nast. 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'. Margaret Whigham was a sensation to British society when she arrived from America as a teenager in the 1920s. A series of Polaroid photographs were used as evidence in the bitter and acrimonious divorce case between the Duke and Duchess of Argyll in 1963. On 22 March 1951, Margaret, 38 at the time, married Ian Douglas Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll. 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. What Was the Atlantic Wall and When Was It Built? Her extravagant lifestyle and ill-considered investments left her largely penniless by the time she died. He spent the entire war pretty much in a prisoner of war camp, a death camp. 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. She is penniless, says Phelps. [11], Within a few years, the marriage was falling apart. Campbell expects his new duchess to underwrite the castle restorations, for the benefit of his sons with Oui-Oui. He could have just given the judgment, I find in favor of the plaintiff. Image Credit: Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo. Margaret, Duchess of Argyll. The comments below have not been moderated, By Her Norman Hartnell wedding dress cemented her status as one of the most glamorous socialites of the era, with crowds reportedly gathering to catch a glimpse of it. She struck an archaic figure at these 1980s social events, being perfectly groomed and coiffed, bejewelled and couture-clad, with ramrod deportment, but in an era when informal post-hippie was the fashionable vibe. Margaret, Duchess of Argyll with her poodle in 1989. [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. 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As a divorce, she threw lavish parties whose success she attributed to the fact that she only invited beautiful women because she thought it restful for men to rest their gaze on them. Home. Her story will be the subject of Season 2 of "A Very English Scandal," which. I had a really wonderful time from the period between 43 and 51. [1] Birth and youth [ edit] 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. Of the 88 men she had been seen having dinner with, a substantial number were gay but, as the malicious duke knew, Margaret could never testify this was so, since in those days it was illegal to be homosexual. 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 richly detailed, three-part costume drama which continues tonight portrays her second marriage to the Duke of Argyll and the notorious divorce battle that ended it. The Duchess refused to reveal who the man is, leaving the press to speculate about his identity. Like everybody, Id do anything to have it all over again. After the historic case she never remarried, and lost much of her fortune in later life. 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. She became a life-long patron of the designer, as well as Victor Stiebel and Angle Delanghe. She also almost died during a horrific accident while visiting her chiropodist, in which she fell down a lift shaft. 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. Who was Margaret the Duchess of Argyll? 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. The legal bills cost her a fortune. In the aftermath of the scandal, Lord Denning was tasked with investigating whether any breaches of national security had been caused by Profumo's tryst with Keeler. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . A POLAROID picture was one of the key pieces of evidence in the scandalous divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll. Having sunk much of her fortune into Inveraray, she was also broke. Sun 8 Dec 2013 08.19 EST. The first woman to have been the victim of hacking, in that her own diaries and photos were stolen and used against her. When in 1933 Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, posed in her Norman Hartnell wedding dress, she needed a big room - her train and veil covered the entire floor and wisped on . The top was what I was supposed to be. The case soon became a tabloid sensation, with Margaret dubbed the dirty duchess and the identity of the headless man in the Polaroid pictures being widely speculated on (Sir Winston Churchill's son-in-law, Duncan Sandys, was one of them, as it was reported only the Minister of Defence had access to a Polaroid camera). Margaret Argyll never learnt to boil a kettle and never once made her own bed. The Grit in the Pearl : The Scandalous Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll by Lyndsy Spence published by The History Press Ltd RRP 20. To the fury of her father, she became pregnant as a result. 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. From her greed is good heyday to her post-divorce denouement cavorting with a series of freaky Italian lovers, it was Ivana, all along, who gilded the Trump name. Nearly 30 years after her death, the story of the Duchess and her sensational downfall has been dramatised on screen in the BBC's A . To find evidence of infidelity, he broke into Margaret's personal cupboard in their London house, where he found the infamous Polaroids along with letters and other private documents. 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. Who was Franoise Dior, the Neo-Nazi Heiress and Socialite? 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. Two big parties for me in three years with over 400 guests on each occasion. She was brave in the war and did not complain about falling 40 feet down a lift shaft when she went to visit her chiropodist on Bond Street. One of the . Margaret was publicly humiliated as society first fed on, and then utterly condemned, her sexual relationships. Imagine the courage that takes., Shes a hot mess. Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, died on July 25, 1993, and the identity of the "headless man" in the Polaroid continues to be a mystery. [28], The Duchess once told The New York Times: "I don't think anybody has real style or class any more. 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. Ivana Marie Zelnkov escaped from behind the Iron Curtain to storm New York City and help create the twisted miracle of Donald Trump. The mystery man in the explicit photo became known as the 'headless man&# She was taken into a London nursing home for a secret abortion. 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. Get time period newsletters, special offers and weekly programme release emails. 'How many women do you have?,' Foy replies. Nonetheless, after the divorce, that was all anyone ever talked about in connection with Margaret. Foy plays the flamboyantly promiscuous Margaret, Duchess of Argyll who was branded a nymphomaniac by her husband Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll (played by Paul Bettany) in their toxic 1963 divorce hearing, whichbecame the longest and most costly of the 20th century. Margaret agreed to marry him. Undiluted heaven. 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. Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, and Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll, after their 1951 wedding at Caxton Hall 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). It goes all around the world. What do you make of your life? an interviewer asked her in 1990. Famed for her beauty, Margaret moved through the. 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. After that, life must have been hard, so very unglamorous and undeferential, and eventually she was reduced to one butler and one maid. Margaret wearing a pink ball gown in 1938. Margaret with J Paul Getty at a film premiere in London, 1970, Of the splendour of these years, she said to biographer Charles Castle: The period between 1930 and 1933 was packed with gaiety and fun It was heaven. (Always a poodle, only a poodle! The movie star was named as Margarets lover, one of the 88 men on the list that the Duke produced in court. "For 50 years it has been safely, maybe too safely, kept . Wedding to American golfer Charles Sweeny in 1933, Being Presented at the third court of the season in 1934, Recuperating in Hove following a fall down a lift shaft in 1934, Marrying the Duke of Argyll at Caxton Hall in 1951, With Frances at a Lancaster House Party in 1955, With Frances at Queen Charlotte's Ball at The Grosvenor House in 1955, With the Duke of Argyll leaving the pier at Tobermory in 1956, With Frances at Beirut's St George's Hotel in 1958, Outside the law courts in the Strand before being sued for slander and libel by her former social secretary Yvonne MacPherson in 1960, With the Duke of Argyll at the family seat, Inveraray Castle, in 1960, At the premiere of Kings Of Kings in 1961, At Zia Foxwell and David Kruger's wedding in 1969, With her poodle Louis at her Mayfair apartment in 1985, At the opening night of Chess The Musical in 1986, At the Hairdresser of the Year party in 1986, At her Grosvenor House apartment with Louis in 1989, The society beauty found herself at the centre of a toxic divorce case in 1963, after it emerged that both she and her husband had conducted multiple extra-marital affairs. The lyrics were later anglicised for the British version of the song by P. G. Wodehouse, who changed two lines from "You're an O'Neill drama / You're Whistler's mama!" 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. I have to admit I read that and I was like, Go mom, laughs Clea Newman Soderlund, speaking about her fathers posthumous memoir, Paul Newman Says Wife Joanne Woodward Turned Him Into a Sexual Creature in Posthumous Memoir. Together they are absolutely the essential things in life.) She was also game to offer a hot-take dripping in condescension. For four decades, the money cascaded into the Whigham account year after year. He filed for divorce. 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. With Ian broke and unpredictable, her focus shifted to restoring her husbands decrepit castle, likely believing it to be an investment in their future. He told her about his five years in a prisoner-of-war camp and she listened. Read More: Is A Very British Scandal Based on a True Story? The couple married in 1951, but their marriage soon turned sour after the Duke accused Margaret of being unfaithful. 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. The number allegedly included cabinet members, Hollywood actors, and members of the royal family. If I can get a Lebanese, I am delighted, said Margaret. But the duke soon showed his true colours, with rumours of gambling and drug and alcohol addiction, as well as a vile temper. 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 identity of the Headless Man was never revealed during her lifetime. It will be plain to most viewers, when the raffish war hero Captain Ian Campbell (Paul Bettany) approaches her on a train, that he is dangerous. Margaret Campbell, born in 1912 to a Scottish millionaire, was a British socialite who frequented the 'best dressed' pages of many a magazine and was. Life was apparently roses all the way. 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Having got her own way for 51 years, it is little wonder she behaved badly to try to keep on getting it. How King Charles and Prince William Plan to Protect the Monarchy Against an Uncertain Future, The daughter of Maurizio Gucci and Patrizia Reggiani was overwhelmed as a child by a wave of tragedy and looked for a gasp of air to breathe, even as sharks circled all around. Now, she tells, Scene Stealer: The True Lies of Elisabeth Finch, Part 2. At the time of their first meeting, the Duke was still married to Louise Timpson. 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. During her divorce from the duke, she became the most despised woman in Britain, denounced in the courts and from every pulpit as an adulteress. You can't help but feel exploited. But Ian Campbell would also be her doom. The Duchess died in penury in 1993 after a bad fall in the nursing home. When the former husband and wife square off in a Virginia courtroom this week, it will mark the culmination of a divorce that has been without comparison in the annals of modern American celebrity. The 26-year-old turned herself in this week following a search that captivated certain corners of New York. Pay the b-b-bills its what youre for.. 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). 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. A POLAROID picture was one of the key pieces of evidence in the scandalous divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll. 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.. 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. My daughter had married a duke. Only time will tell exactly what was inside them that was deemed so sensitive. 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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. One compares her to a sex-addicted chimpanzee. In several photos, Margaret was wearing only a string of her trademark pearls. [4] He continued: "Her attitude to the sanctity of marriage was what moderns would call 'enlightened' but which in plain language was wholly immoral. 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. [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. 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.. And I have given up hopes of any improvement., Says Phelps, Shes sort of brilliant and tragic in a way, but also triumphant. The Duchess, Margaret Campbell, was a British socialite known for her lavish lifestyle and a string of high-profile affairs. (One series) And the first woman to be a megastar to find the public turning against her. But Margarets reign as a femme fatale was to come to an end. The mystery man in the explicit photo became known as the 'headless man&# Margaret's rumoured affair with the ex-press officer at the Savoy was named as one of the key affairs in the divorce proceedings. You feel exposed. 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. Margaret spent the first fourteen years of her life in New York City, where she was educated privately at the Hewitt School. Her photo appears alongside each report. She wrote later in life: I had wealth, I had good looks. Eight months after her wedding, the nation held its breath as she fought for her life, following a disastrous stillbirth. 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. 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". Is a Very British Scandal Based on a True story Season 2 of & ;! 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