EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Condon, who has exec produced series including HBO’s Bored To Death and USA Network’s Dare Me, has struck a development deal with Fremantle and has set her sights on her first couple of projects.
23.04.2022 - 22:43 / thewrap.com
When a judge finally granted the divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll in 1963, he famously delivered a blistering three-hour and seven-minute rebuke of Duchess Margaret Campbell, disguised as a judgment, where he branded her a “completely promiscuous woman.” The divorce case was filled with accusations by her husband, Ian Campbell, the Duke, of flagrant adultrey, titilating rumors about sexual liaisons coded in her diaries, and much discussion about a scandalous Polaroid photograph of Margaret in an intimate act with someone other than her husband. The case left Margaret vilified by the press in a pre-sexual revolution Britain and branded the “Dirty Duchess,” while her former husband, who was also accused of adultrey, escaped similar criticism.
She also lost friends and status in the upper class circles she frequented. And it’s this period of time that’s documented in the Prime Video three-part drama “A Very British Scandal” starring Emmy winner Claire Foy, and created and written by Sarah Phelps (“Dublin Murders”).“It’s not the first example of, but it was one of [them] — it was a sort of sense that this is when the kind of scrutiny of women’s behavior just had such a huge reach,” Phelps told TheWrap.
“And in a way the divorce kind of burst the tabloid interest. They came hand in hand.
And the shaming of her, the destruction of her, was pretty much global. There was a real global appetite for this member of the aristocracy, this woman that everybody had watched be the ‘best dressed’ … the most stylish, the most wealthy.
EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Condon, who has exec produced series including HBO’s Bored To Death and USA Network’s Dare Me, has struck a development deal with Fremantle and has set her sights on her first couple of projects.
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Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorAmazon 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 (Ian, played by Paul Bettany) accuses Margaret (Claire Foy) of sleeping with more than 88 other men during their marriage.Judge Lord Wheatley, who presided over the case, blasted her as “a completely promiscuous woman” whose attitude towards marriage was “wholly immoral.”Writer and creator Sarah Phelps says she was sensitive to the fact she was penning a script about real people who had living relatives that she took into consideration. “There are strict laws about how to represent people and what impact it’s going to have on their living relatives,“ Phelps says.
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A Very British Scandal has made its’ debut on Prime Video and fans are wondering – just what castle is that?
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“A Very British Scandal” production designer Christina Moore spent time driving around the Scottish Highlands as she sought locations for the Amazon Prime limited series. Set in 1963, the historical drama charts the tumultuous marriage of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, played by Claire Foy and Paul Bettany.The Duke, who had inherited Scotland’s crumbling Inveraray Castle, married a series of women hoping to use their money to maintain the castle.
A Very British Scandal” premieres Friday on Amazon Prime, it will be the first time that most Americans learn all about Margaret, the Duchess of Argyll; her husband Ian Campbell, the Duke of Argyll — and the ill-fated string of pearls that proved to be her downfall during their bitter and lascivious divorce battle.The duchess was the Kim Kardashian of her day, a socialite photographed every time she stepped out on the town and famed for a string of affairs.But it all came crashing down when Campbell used photos he had stolen of his wife “in flagrante” with another man to shame her in court during their 1962 divorce. It worked, with Judge Lord Wheatley blasting her as “a completely promiscuous woman” whose attitude towards marriage was “wholly immoral.”The judge, a highly conservative Jesuit and a relative of Campbell, added: “I consider her to be a highly sexed woman who had ceased to be satisfied with normal relations and had started to indulge in disgusting sexual activities to gratify a debase sexual appetite.”As The New York Times reported at the time, the photos “reportedly showed a naked man gratifying himself and pictured [the duchess], dressed in nothing but three strands of pearls, performing a sex act on a naked man in the mirrored gilt and silver bathroom of her Mayfair apartment.”“Margaret really invented the tabloid scandal, which now is such a huge industry,” show writer Sarah Phelps told The Post.
, this one is for you), then you'll definitely want to tune into the upcoming second season of — which, perhaps revealed by the name, depicts the scandalous society divorce that shook Britain in the 1960s.The original series from BBC and Amazon follows one of the most notorious legal cases of the 20th century, with the separation of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll — and the media's treatment of the scandal in postwar Europe — at the center of the story. All three episodes of are now streaming exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. Brought to life by the same creators behind, this dark and extraordinarily decadent drama series is led by an A-list cast that includes Claire Foy, Paul Bettany and Julia Davis, among many others.Here's everything to know about when, where and how to stream the juicy historical drama's new season. is now available to stream beginning Friday, April 22.
A Very British Scandal, now streaming on , let’s confront the elephant in the room. Or as British people would say (probably), “The Big Ben in the teapot.”A Very British Scandal is a three-part original series based on a real scandal that happened in the U.K.
Claire Foy and Paul Bettany take on one of Britain's biggest scandals in , the follow-up to Amazon Prime Video's The season chronicles the contentious 1963 divorce between the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, which is considered the country's most salacious legal splits in the 20th century. But Foy and Bettany were not familiar with the scandal, which involved adultery, forgery, theft, bribery and heavy drug use, when they signed on to play Margaret Campbell, the Duchess, and Ian Campbell, the Duke.«I was so surprised that it was so public -- the demise of their relationship,» Foy told ET.
, this one is for you), then you'll definitely want to tune into the upcoming second season of — which, perhaps revealed by the name, depicts the scandalous society divorce that shook Britian in the 1960s.The original series from BBC and Amazon follows one of the most notorious legal cases of the 20th century, with the separation of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll — and the media's treatment of the scandal in postwar Europe — at the center of the story.Brought to life by the same creators behind, this dark and extraordinarily decadent drama series is led by an A-list cast that includes Claire Foy, Paul Bettany and Julia Davis, among many others.Here's everything to know about when, where and how to stream the juicy historical drama's new season. will be available to stream beginning Friday, April 22. The series will be available to stream exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.
, this one is for you), then you'll definitely want to tune into the upcoming second season of — which, perhaps revealed by the name, depicts the scandalous society divorce that shook Britian in the 1960s.The original series from BBC and Amazon follows one of the most notorious legal cases of the 20th century, with the separation of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll — and the media's treatment of the scandal in postwar Europe — at the center of the story.Brought to life by the same creators behind, this dark and extraordinarily decadent drama series is led by an A-list cast that includes Claire Foy, Paul Bettany and Julia Davis, among many others.Here's everything to know about when, where and how to stream the juicy historical drama's new season. The second season will be available to stream beginning Friday, April 22.
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Amber Dowling Long before Britney Spears or Pamela Anderson, there was Margaret Whigham, the 1930s British socialite more famously known as the Duchess of Argyll. The only child in a wealthy Scottish family, Margaret’s beauty, fashion sense and string of high-profile romances made her constant tabloid fodder.