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Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (11 February 1715 – 17 July 1785) was the richest woman in Great Britain of her time, styled Lady Margaret Harley before 1734, Duchess of Portland from 1734 to her husband's death in 1761, and Dowager Duchess of Portland from 1761 until her own death in 1785.
Amazon Prime’s three-part series “A Very British Scandal” dramatizes one of the most scandalous divorce cases in British history, between the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, in which the Duke ...
A Very British Scandal is a 2021 historical drama miniseries starring Claire Foy as Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll and Paul Bettany as Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll. [1] While not a direct sequel or continuation, its production company, Blueprint Pictures , previously made A Very English Scandal (2018), about the Thorpe affair . [ 2 ]
Margaret had asked Charles Castle in 1974 to write her biography. [26] He then published The Duchess Who Dared – The Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll in 1994. [27] It was reprinted in 1995 by Pan Books, and in 2021, to coincide with the TV series A Very British Scandal, by Swift Press. [28]
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"We're lucky that Margaret kept going with the divorce case because otherwise, the story wouldn't be being told," says Foy, who notes that the duchess had a "conviction" that the court would see ...
Winifred Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (née Winifred Dallas-Yorke) (1863–1954), British humanitarian and animal rights activist, wife of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland Ivy Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (née Ivy Gordon-Lennox) (1887–1982), founder of the Harley Gallery and Foundation, wife of William ...
This enlightenment comes too late to give A Very Royal Scandal any moral credibility. Instead, it is a well-acted, well-written peek behind the scenes of newsgathering. It romps along at a clip ...