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- Margaret Campbell, formerly Sweeny, née Whigham (1912 - 1993), Duchess of Argyll, and Ian Douglas Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll (1903 - 1973), after their wedding at Caxton Hall in London, March 23 1951.
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Apr 22, 2022 · In 1933, aged 20, she married her first husband, American socialite and businessman Charles Sweeney.
- Eloise Barry
The only child of a synthetic fabrics tycoon, Margaret was, as Sewitsky puts it, “groomed to marry upwards in society.” Indeed, Phelps has noted that from the age of nine, “her mother took...
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.
Apr 22, 2022 · Margaret Whigham and Charles Sweeny on their wedding day, 1933. The Sweenys were married for 14 years and had three children (including a daughter who was stillborn) before divorcing in 1947.
- Leena Kim
- Editor
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Jun 1, 2020 · As she grew up, her name was a byword for class and beauty; she was the debutante of her coming-out year, and her marriage to Charles Sweeny literally stopped traffic. But it was not to last: Margaret needed more.
Dec 23, 2021 · In an age where aristocratic women were primarily simply required to be beautiful and wealthy, Margaret found herself with no shortage of suitors and was named debutante of the year in 1930. She was briefly engaged to the Earl of Warwick, before marrying Charles Sweeny, a fellow wealthy American.
Apr 22, 2022 · She married Charles Sweeney, an American businessman and socialite, in 1933 when she was 20 years old. Such was the public excitement around the wedding—dubbed “the media event of the decade” by the Guardian —that crowds of 20,000 onlookers gathered to catch a glimpse of Maragret’s wedding dress.
