March 12th, 2021 By David Knox 2 commentsFiled under: Streaming,
Amazon Prime will carry a newly-announced
A Very British Scandal, starring Claire Foy (
The Crown, Wolf Hall) and Paul Bettany (
WandaVision, Uncle Frank,
Written by Sarah Phelps (
The Pale Horse, Dublin Murders), it focuses on the divorce of the Duke (Paul Bettany) and Duchess of Argyll (Claire Foy), one of the most notorious, extraordinary and brutal legal cases of the 20th Century.
This is a BBC One / Amazon Studios production to film in the United Kingdom later this year and comes from the producers of
A Very English Scandal.
Sarah Phelps said: “Writing the story of Margaret’s life and the events leading up to and including her divorce from the Duke has been a passion project of mine since 1993 when I first heard her name and started learning about her. I felt very strongly that she’d been punished for being a woman, for being visible, for refusing to back down, be a good girl and go quietly. This
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The embittered divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll was one of the most turbulent court cases of the 20th century, fraught with forgery, bribery, theft and scandal surrounding explicit photographs.
Charismatic Margaret, Duchess of Argyll s reputation never recovered, after she was branded a nymphomaniac by her husband, Scottish peer Ian Douglas Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll, who stole an explicit Polaroid picture of her and used it to expose her infidelity - making her one of the first victims of revenge porn, according to her biographer.
The image allegedly showed Margaret wearing only her signature triple-string of pearls while fellating an unidentified man and was reportedly full frontal and left nothing to the imagination .