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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.
May 8, 2024 · In a 1963 court hearing, Margaret Campbell was accused by her alcoholic, gambler husband, the 11th Duke of Argyll, of taking 88 lovers.
Jul 31, 1993 · She died last week aged 80 and Lord Denning, aged 94, spoke publicly for the first time about the 'headless man' - an unidentified naked man photographed in a compromising position with Margaret...
Dec 23, 2021 · Argyll decided he wanted to divorce Margaret, accusing her of infidelity and providing photographic evidence, in the form of Polaroids, of her engaged in sexual acts with a series of anonymous, headless men, which he had stolen from a locked bureau in their house in Mayfair, London.
- Sarah Roller
Jul 25, 2024 · The true story of the Duchess of Argyll, one-time. Tatler. columnist and the ‘dirty duchess’ whose toxic (and infamous) divorce case stunned the nation. Born on 1 December 1912, Margaret Whigham was the only daughter of a Scottish businessman and millionaire, George Hay Whigham and his wife, Helen Mann Hannay.
- Rebecca Cope
Dec 26, 2021 · Margaret Campbell, the famously beautiful Duchess of Argyll, had been a celebrity – and a source of scandal – from even before her debutante days. But she would be remembered for just one thing: the so-called ‘divorce of the century’, which ended her marriage to the Duke of Argyll in 1963.
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Apr 22, 2022 · In 1947, Margaret met Ian Campbell, the Duke of Argyll, who had been married twice before. Campbell, born in 1903, carried significant trauma from being held a prisoner of war in Germany, and...