The Channel 5 programme, airing at 9pm this evening, will look at the sensational story that saw the Duchess of Argyll's life uprooted into scandal.
A Very British Sex Scandal airs on Channel 5 at 9pm, and will recount the case. READ MORE:Tonight's episode of the documentary series, A Very British Sex Scandal, will recount the trials and tribulations of the Duchess of Argyll - who was branded a nymphomaniac by her husband the 11th Duke of Argyll.He claimed she had taken on an amazing 88 lovers, including cabinet ministers, Hollywood stars and royals, during their marriage.
She publicly feuded with family, maids and landlords, continued to call out her husband as a 'fiend' and a 'sadist' and hosted glitzy society parties, until she was forced to leave her Grosvenor Street apartment due to a lack of funds. But her father's philandering took their toll on her mother, who suffered extreme mood swings as a result.
Tonight's episode of the documentary series, A Very British Sex Scandal, will recount the trials and tribulations of the Duchess of Argyll - who was branded a nymphomaniac by her husband the 11th Duke of Argyll. Both pictured after their wedding The couple remained married for 15 years, during which Margaret suffered eight miscarriages and a stillbirth before welcoming a daughter, Frances, and son Brian.
Before she met and married the Duke in 1951 - four years after her divorce from Charles Sweeney in 1947 - Margaret enjoyed a romance with New York stockbroker Joe Thomas. At 20, Margaret married Charles Sweeny , an Irish-American stockbroker and amateur golfer, whose family's millions came from coal-mining, oil, and smelting
Margaret met Ian Campbell, Duke of Argyll, on a train at Gare du Nord in 1949. He pursued her relentlessly, knowing she was wealthy - while his own estate was worthless. The Duke grew to resent his wife when she began refusing to pay off any more of his debts after three years of marriage The Duke was granted a divorce on the grounds of Margaret's adultery and she was ordered to pay seven-eighths of the £50,000 legal bill. Meanwhile nothing was said about Ian's own affairs or his subsequent remarriage to Mathilda Mortimer, a rich American, just six weeks later.
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