CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: This three-part costume drama which continues tonight portrays her second marriage to the Duke of Argyll - and the notorious divorce battle that ended it.
New BBC drama A Very British Scandal will catapult viewers into a vicious society divorce battle that saw one woman’s reputation raked over in the 1960s tabloids. Biographer and historian Sarah Gristwood considers the real figures at the centre of the drama – including the so-called ‘headless man’ – and how the case reflects the changing attitudes of a nation…
New BBC drama A Very British Scandal will catapult viewers into a vicious society divorce battle that saw one woman’s reputation raked over in the 1960s tabloids. Biographer and historian Sarah Gristwood considers the real figures at the centre of the drama – including the so-called ‘headless man’ – and how the case reflects the changing attitudes of a nation…
HUGO VICKERS: Even today, more than half a century on, Margaret is portrayed as a sexually voracious harridan who deserved every moment of her painful downfall.