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In the 1960s, a brutal divorce battle destroyed her reputation – now a new BBC drama sets the record straight, as its screenwriter explains
Claire Foy was seen arriving on the set of A Very British Scandal as she filmed the first scenes of the explosive new drama.
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 Sca...
Hugh Grant (left) and Ben Whishaw in A Very English Scandal The BBC and Amazon Studios are following up their multi-award-winning drama A Very English Scandal with another miniseries about a scandalous moment in British history, starring Claire Foy (The Crown) and Paul Bettany (Wandavision). A Very British Scandal (3×60′) will focus on the divorce of the Duke (Bettany) and Duchess of Argyll (Foy), one of the most extraordinary legal cases of the 20th century. Written by Sarah Phelps (The Pale Horse, Dublin Murders) and produced by A Very English Scandal maker Blueprint Pictures, it will pr...
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 o...