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Eleanor Mary Campbell, Duchess of Argyll DStJ (née Cadbury; 26 January 1973) is a British noblewoman, and Prior of the Order of St John 's Priory of Scotland. A member of the Cadbury family, she is the wife of the 13th Duke of Argyll . Biography.
- Who Were The Duke and Duchess of Argyll?
- Why The Marriage Ended in Divorce
- What Happened During The Divorce Proceedings?
- How The Argyll Divorce Case Gives An Insight Into 20th Century Misogyny
- What Happened to The Duchess of Argyll?
Before she became known as the Duchess of Argyll, Margaret Whigham, born 1912, was an heiress of a Scottish businessman and millionaire. Famed for her beauty, Margaret moved through the most desirable social circles as a debutante and was engaged four times by the age of 19. She reportedlyunderwent an illegal abortion aged 15. In 1933, aged 20, she...
The Duke and Margaret married in 1951—Margaret became an aristocrat and the Duke gained much-needed financial relief from his many gambling debts through her inheritance and money from her previous marriage. Their marriage was rocky from the start; both had numerous lovers throughout their relationship and distrusted one another. The Duke reportedl...
The Duke applied for divorce on the grounds of adultery, and claimed that Margaret had slept with 88 men. During the hearing, he presented the compromising Polaroids, depicting Margaret, wearing nothing but her signature pearls, performing a sex act on a man whose head was cropped from the photo. The identity of the lover was never revealed—though ...
Details of the Duke’s infidelities weren’t mentioned during the proceedings. Campbell was also not questioned over the theft and display of Margaret’s private photos—which would now be considered revenge porn. Although societal attitudes were changing as Britain headed in the 1960s, and the contraceptive pill became more readily available, women we...
Although defiant in the face of the cruel gossip and societal judgment, Margaret never quite recovered from the divorce proceedings. She was ordered by a judge to pay the bulkof her ex-husband’s legal fees of £50,000—over $1.4 million today. Over the decades that followed, her fortune dwindled. In a bid to capitalize on her public notoriety, she op...
- Eloise Barry
23 de dez. de 2021 · Duchess of Argyll. After a string of high profile romances, Margaret married Ian Douglas Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll, in 1951. Meeting by chance on a train, Argyll told Margaret of some of his experiences as a prisoner of war during World War Two, omitting the fact that the trauma had left him reliant on alcohol and prescription drugs.
- Sarah Roller
24 de dez. de 2021 · And it's got a whiff of fabulous 20th-century sex scandal: it was once the home of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, whose four-year divorce case scandalised the country in the Sixties. She went from most famous deb of her era – an era when debs were the supermodels of the day – to infamous nymphomaniac.
- Tatler
Ethel Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll (née Whigham, formerly Sweeny; 1 December 1912 – 25 July 1993) was a Scottish heiress, socialite, and aristocrat who was most famous for her 1951 marriage and much-publicised 1963 divorce from her second husband, Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll.
28 de dez. de 2021 · At the centre of the must-see series is Margaret Campbell, the Duchess of Argyll ( Claire Foy) whose promiscuous lifestyle led to one of the most salacious divorce trials in history. But...
11 de jul. de 2020 · Eleanor Campbell, the Duchess of Argyll, who lives at the castle with her husband Torquhil, 13th Duke of Argyll, and their three children, said it had been an unusual time in the...
