IN his book, “The Singapore Story”, (Times Editions, 1993) Lee Kwan Yew describes Duncan Sandys, the Secretary of State For Commonwealth Relations as a person in authority who could be “direct and brutally frank”. Lee noted that Sandys, the son-in-law of Winston Churchill, “had enormous determination and courage, and did not lack self-confidence”.
He also observed, and this might be quite significant as we shall see, that Sandys had suffered a leg injury in a car accident during the war, and was often in pain, took painkillers, limped around in a walking stick but pressed on with life regardless
Lady Colin Campbell told the Sun the real scandal was between Ian Campbell and Mathilda Coster Mortimer - as he joked that she was his daughter after having an affair with her mother.
MICHAEL THORNTON writes about the moment he met the Duchess of Argyll, brought to life in the BBC drama A Very British Scandal starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany
The man in the picture has never been identified, but the glamorous woman before him - engaged in what has always delicately been described as a sex act - saw her reputation left in tatters.