![]() ![]() (“Duke of Argyll Wins a Divorce – Duchess Excoriated,” ran the New York Times headline when proceedings finally drew to a close in 1963.) Inevitably, the Duchess immediately became the centre of a national scandal, damned by sexist headlines throughout the couple’s subsequent three-and-a-half-year legal battle, which soon enthralled America as well. Betraying her identity in the photos where her face is hidden? A three-string pearl necklace, which had become her fashion signature. In particular, the three-part drama will revisit the Argylls’s sensational divorce trial, initiated by the Duke after he broke open a locked cupboard and found dozens of nude Polaroids of his wife, including one of her having sex with a man whose head had been cropped out of the frame. Created by the same team behind A Very English Scandal – which saw Hugh Grant bring to life Liberal MP Jeremy Thorpe’s vilification following his relationship with model Norman Josiffe (Ben Whishaw) – it stars The Crown’s Claire Foy as the so-called “Dirty Duchess” and Paul Bettany as the irascible Duke. It’s Margaret’s infamous second marriage to the Duke of Argyll, however, that will be at the heart of A Very British Scandal, airing on BBC One in the UK later this year and Amazon Prime Video in the US in 2022. Paul Bettany will appear as the Duke of Argyll, who used his wife’s inheritance to restore his family home of Inveraray Castle. ![]()
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