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. When do the clocks change in 2023? The ensuing divorce case was splashed across newspaper front pages. Along with other unsuccessful legal suits, she fought a 15-year battle to prevent her stepmother from claiming inheritance of Georges property in the Bahamas under the local dower law. History Hit brings you the stories that shaped the world through our award winning podcast network and an online history channel. 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. And, as Phelps describes, it wasnt just legal support that Margaret lacked. She described herself as "always vain". He could have just given the judgment, I find in favor of the plaintiff. Meanwhile nothing was said about his own affairs or his subsequent remarriage to Mathilda Mortimer, a rich American, just six weeks later. 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. Heres a thought, Margaret, he tells her, mocking her stammer with drunken nastiness. The Duchess, Margaret Campbell, was a British socialite known for her lavish lifestyle and a string of high-profile affairs. The porcelain-skinned Margaret, with her bewitching green eyes, was considered a great beauty. 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). Ad Choices, Shes iconic, says Sarah Phelps of the socialite unfairly referred to as the Blowjob Duchess following a scandalous divorce trial. It shows Margaret arriving atInveraray Castle in Scotland, the home of Ian Campbell, the Duke of Argyll. Their marriage, at the Brompton Oratory, stopped traffic in Knightsbridge for 3 hours and was declared the wedding of the decade by many in attendance. About Us; Staff; Camps; Scuba. 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. In 1963 the resignation of John Profumo rocked the government as his affair with Christine Keeler was exposed to the world. [24] She was buried alongside her first husband, Charles Sweeny, who had died only four months earlier, in Brookwood Cemetery in Woking, Surrey. He told her about his five years in a prisoner-of-war camp and she listened. Home. Having got her own way for 51 years, it is little wonder she behaved badly to try to keep on getting it. All she can see is how sexy that danger seems. That word round-heel sums up the pious hypocrisy of the era. Wheatley is a Puritan, Phelps explains. For four decades, the money cascaded into the Whigham account year after year. At 15, she became pregnant by David Niven; a termination was arranged and this scandal hushed up. With Ian broke and unpredictable, her focus shifted to restoring her husbands decrepit castle, likely believing it to be an investment in their future. [1] Birth and youth [ edit] 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. Life was so simple. A selection of short interviews with Margaret Whigham, Duchess of Argyll. Admirers lined the route from Hyde Park Corner to their wedding at Brompton Oratory in 1933 and traffic in Knightsbridge came to a halt for three hours; 2,000 invited guests were joined by 2,000 gatecrashers. Originally published by London County Council, London, 1980", "For sale: London residence where Duchess scandalised society", "Tony Wilson 'Britain's finest live presenter', "Duchess of Argyll's funeral demonstrates that feelings will not rest", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margaret_Campbell,_Duchess_of_Argyll&oldid=1126443115, Pages containing links to subscription-only content, Wikipedia articles needing clarification from January 2022, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Her divorce from the Duke of Argyll was dramatised in the, This page was last edited on 9 December 2022, at 10:25. Photographs submitted to the Edinburgh court, according to The New York Times, reportedly showed a naked man gratifying himself and pictured her, dressed in nothing but three strands of pearls, performing a sex act on a naked man in the mirrored gilt and silver bathroom of her Mayfair apartment.. . 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. In 1930, as 17-year-old debutante Margaret Whigham entering London society, she was regarded as the most beautiful woman in England. 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. 'How many women do you have?,' Foy replies. 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. Sat 18 Dec 2021 02.00 EST. But angry that the duchess was no longer funding his excessive lifestyle, the duke hired private detectives to follow his wife. Famed for her beauty, Margaret moved through the. [11], Within a few years, the marriage was falling apart. By Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images. Margaret spent the first fourteen years of her life in New York City, where she was educated privately at the Hewitt School. When American-raised heiress Margaret was 14, her father George would drive from their Ascot home to Eton, to round up good-looking boys for her tennis parties. In those days, society men did not take personalities into consideration when choosing a wife. I must have clutched at it, for it was later found that all my fingernails were torn off. [4] He continued: "Her attitude to the sanctity of marriage was what moderns would call 'enlightened' but which in plain language was wholly immoral. But Margarets reign as a femme fatale was to come to an end. She was ordered to pay most of the 50,000 legal bill. 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 . Perhaps it is not surprising that, as an adult, the only way she knew how to express affection was through sex. 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". 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". Margaret wearing a pink ball gown in 1938. The Duchess, Margaret Campbell, was a British socialite known for her lavish lifestyle and a string of high-profile affairs. 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. 16:57 GMT 27 Dec 2021. [8], In 1943, Margaret had a near-fatal fall down a lift shaft. Argyll accused his wife of infidelity with 88 men, compiling a detailed list which included government ministers and members of the royal family. The Queen epitomises everything selfless, noble and honest about a traditional ruling class. The young truants, sons of earls and viscounts, used to hide under a rug in the back of his Rolls-Royce until they were off school premises. That, and three strands of pearls, she reportedly said at the time. Everyone's got old and fat." 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. She was one of a series of society beauties photographed as classical figures by Madame Yevonde. 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). Well, some ghastly mistakes, she laughed. And her exploitsas debutante of the year in 1930 and prolific high-society partygoerearned her international press coverage and a reference in Cole Porters Youre the Top., She was the most photographed woman of her time, of her generation, says Sarah Phelps, the writer who adapted Margarets story for A Very British Scandal, the miniseries coming to the U.S. April 22. She also almost died during a horrific accident while visiting her chiropodist, in which she fell down a lift shaft. 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. The duchess and her daughter, Frances Sweeny, 1955. Claire Foy stars as Margaret Campbell, whose bitter 1963 divorce from second husband Ian Campbell, the Duke of Argyll (Paul Bettany), caused a scandal thanks to some very salacious Polaroids. The two began living separately, but the dramatics still escalated. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . The Duchess refused to reveal who the man is, leaving the press to speculate about his identity. Not a serious thought in my head. 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. In those days, one episode of adultery was enough to justify a divorce. Margaret with her first husband, Charles Sweeny, on their wedding day at Brompton Oratory, 1933. 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. 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 identity of the "headless man" involved in the Duchess of Argyll sex photo scandal that shocked the British public in 1963 has been revealed. Nonetheless, after the divorce, that was all anyone ever talked about in connection with Margaret. Another quote gives an insight into her personality: "Always a poodle, only a poodle! 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. Its a pity the drama does not have time to explain the years of fame that came before her disgrace, and which shaped her. He also produced 13 Polaroid pictures he had found which showed the duchess and two naked men in her bathroom. By 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 attitude to the sanctity of marriage was what moderns would call enlightened but which in plain language was wholly immoral.'. 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 . Argyll forged a deed of sale before their marriage to gain him access to some of Margarets money. Margaret went through a whirlwind of suitors. Those scenes are filmed tastefully, or at least without too much emphasis on exploitation. 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. The toxic love affair between the Duke and Duchess started with Margaret divorcing her then-husband to marry Ian, who would become the Duke of Argyll. A Very British Scandal continues on BBC1 tonight and tomorrow at 9pm. 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. She is penniless, says Phelps. She fell in love at first sight with Prince Aly Khan; they got engaged but her parents refused to let her marry him because of his religion. Who was Franoise Dior, the Neo-Nazi Heiress and Socialite? According to The Grit in the Pearl, Ian and Margarets marriage spiraled into mutual infidelities. His number Youre The Top namechecked the Colosseum, the feet of Fred Astaire and Mrs Sweeny. Margarets marriage to Ian, and the nasty, heavily publicized breakup that followedthe longest and costliest divorce proceeding in British history at the timedominate the shows three episodes. 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 was spoilt rotten. 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. 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. [She was evicted from a hotel]. The couple married in 1951, but their marriage soon turned sour after the Duke accused Margaret of being unfaithful. Margaret, Duchess of Argyll. Now there may be a showdown brewing over billions of dollars in kids fare. It was supposed to be a divorce hearing. Undiluted heaven. The full depth of his cruelty comes as a shock, though. 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. Sex is all she is good for. Everyone knows her as Oui Oui, because she agrees to everything though Margaret childishly calls her Wee Wee. 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!" Twitter users commented on how awkward it was to watch the three sex scenes in the presence of older family members. [3], In 1930 Margaret was presented at Court in London and was known as the debutante of that year. 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'. 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. The duke began proceedings on grounds of infidelity. Nobody, nobody, nobody. Margaret Campbell in 1972. One showed the duchess carrying out a sex act on one of the naked men, whose heads were not seen in any of the shots. [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. During said courtroom saga, Margaret was asked about the men who appeared in her diarysome of whom were reportedly gay, which at that time was a punishable crime. It took four years after he filed for divorce for a verdict to be reached, which granted it to the duke on the grounds of Margarets adultery. 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. Her extravagant lifestyle and ill-considered investments left her largely penniless by the time she died. On 22 March 1951, Margaret, 38 at the time, married Ian Douglas Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll. Following the scandal, he offered to resign from the cabinet but his resignation was declined. . 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. But by the early 1960s, Margarets fortunes had reversed on an epic scale. Born in 1912, she was still around in the early 1980s when our paths would sometimes cross in London. Buy now for 16.99 at books.telegraph.co.uk or call 0844 . Read More: Is A Very British Scandal Based on a True Story? He was a bad man before he went in,says Phelps. All rights reserved. Her lawyer argues shes being overcharged, and the case seems destined to become the latest front in the ongoing debate over criminal justice in the city. 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. She wrote later in life: I had wealth, I had good looks. The headless man was never formally identified, although a shortlist included the actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Churchills son-in-law and government minister, Duncan Sandys. 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. Though she did once say "the only Polaroid camera in the country" was kept at the Ministry of Defence. The couple married in 1951, but their marriage soon turned sour after the Duke accused Margaret of being unfaithful. Sample Page; ; Margaret was identifiable by the diamond clasps of her trademark three-strand pearls and distinctive hairstyle. a self-confessed wolf. By the time shes dead, her sobriquet will still be Blowjob Duchess. Can you imagine the guts it takes to get up in the morning, put your poodle on its leash, put on your lipstick, put on your pearls, and take your poodle to the park? 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. Vanity Fair may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. After ending a first marriage that yielded a son and daughter, she went on a dating streak that ended with a marriage to Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyllsecuring her familys formal entry to aristocracy, and access to Inveraray, a proper castle in Scotland. She was taken into a London nursing home for a secret abortion. Margaret, the Duchess of Argyll on the June 1969 cover of Tatler. Ian filed for divorce, citing both the photos and a list of 88 men noted in her diary, men Ian suspected Margaret had slept with during their marriage. 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. He had made a fortune successfully marketing a new type of artificial silk called Celanese. He first met Margaret by chance rather than design, sitting opposite her on the Golden Arrow train from Paris to London. Bettany plays the duke with an absolute absence of sympathy. The sheer scandal of photographic evidence of Margarets blatant infidelity she was identifiable by her signature three-strand pearl necklace was shocking to a world which, in 1963, was on the cusp of a sexual revolution. She died aged 80 in 1993. Her funeral, a requiem mass, was held at Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street in Mayfair. Second World War veteran or not, he is without any redeeming grace or even charm. 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. Pay the b-b-bills its what youre for.. 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. Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, at an event with her friend, Lady Edith Foxwell, in 1959. Lizzie May For Mailonline, Usain Bolt admits Prince Harry no longer speaks to him despite 'wanting to keep in contact' because the royal 'got really serious, really quickly' with Meghan Markle, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are 'loving life as a family-of-four' but are experiencing the challenge of 'finding that work-life balance', Duchess' makeup artist Daniel Martin claims, John Cleese blasts 'deception, dishonesty and tone' of BBC Asia interview after he was grilled on cancel culture and Dave Chappelle instead of his upcoming shows, Queen CANCELS family pre-Christmas lunch for 50 people at Windsor Castle 'with regret' as a 'precaution' to try to save her loved ones' festive plans. [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. [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 26-year-old turned herself in this week following a search that captivated certain corners of New York. 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. [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. Margaret Sweeny, nee Whigham, photographed in 1935. In several photos, Margaret was wearing only a string of her trademark pearls. A friend of mine, born in 1932, explained to me: You have no idea how drab things were in the days before 15 minutes of fame for everyone. What Was the Atlantic Wall and When Was It Built? 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