The existing castle was commissioned in 1719 based on a sketch by John Vanbrugh who designed Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard in England. An earlier castle on the site was built in the 1400s by the Campbell Clan who date back to 1260. The story of Inveraray Castle begins well before the eleventh Duke and “Marg of Arg”. I’m not sure my grandfather will come out of it in the best light, but what happened, happened,” he told the UK’s Telegraph newspaper. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s an important part of our family history. Today there is no mention of Margaret on the castle’s website. The current duke, Torquhil Campbell, however allowed the cast and crew to film at Inveraray which is about 60 miles from Glasgow. In recent years (Margaret died in 1993) Lady Colin Campbell has said the duchess told her it was the Pan Am Airlines executive Bill Lyons. Not to mention an infamous Polaroid showing Margret, recognisable by her trademark pearl necklace, engaging in a sexual act with a “headless man” the identity of who she refused to reveal.
Marg of arg headless man photo series#
The series shows eyebrow raising behaviour from both the duke and duchess though Margaret’s step daughter in law and royal biographer Lady Colin Campbell says on her youtube channel that the actions attributed to the duchess are erroneous.Īn ugly divorce case spanned the late 1950s and early 1960s resulting in Margret being dubbed “the dirty duchess” on account of her diaries and love letters supposedly showing her promiscuity and infidelity. When Margret’s father cuts off the money supply he moves to divorce her. The duke was debt ridden, alcoholic and seemingly fond of marrying heiresses, the television drama reveals. There was not to be a happy ending for the couple who married in 1951 (his third, her second). Inveraray CastleĪnd that’s what Margaret gave it, investing a small fortune of her father’s, self-made millionaire George Whigham, money in restoring it. But Margaret responds, “You didn’t tell me it was so beautiful. In the new BBC and Amazon Studios drama series, A Very British Scandal, Ian (played by Paul Bettany) is depicted taking Margaret (Claire Foy) to Inveraray and dismissing it as “a plague pit” and “a pile”. Rich and spoilt Margaret, debutante of the year in 1930 and the “Mrs Sweeny” namechecked in the Cole Porter song You’re The Top, is said to have become enamoured with restoring the castle inherited by her married lover, Ian Campbell, the eleventh Duke of Argyll. Understandable, despite the castle’s neglected state, given the romantic looking conical roofed turrets and glorious position in vast parkland edging Loch Fyne. It was love at first sight when glamorous Margaret Sweeny the future Duchess of Argyll set eyes on Inveraray Castle on the west coast of Scotland. His attitude toward the sanctity of marriage was what modern-day people can call ‘enlightenment’ but in simple terms it was utterly immoral.A Castle is not just for Christmas – You Can Stay at A Very British Scandal’s Inveraray Paul Bettany and Claire Foy in A Very British Scandal – BBC In filing for divorce, the judge stated that Margaret ‘was a totally immoral woman whose sexual desire could not be satisfied by just a few men. The case soon became very popular, with Margaret calling the ‘dirty duchess’ and the ‘headless man’ in the widely thought Polaroid images (Sir Winston Churchill’s son-in-law, Duncan Sandys, was one of them. The photos were part of a lawsuit filed by the Duke against the duchess as part of a divorce proceedings, and a list of 88 men accused of having sex with her in the backyard. Inside, he found a repository of evidence of his infidelity, including photographs of his Polaroid with another man.
The marriage did not last long before the breakup, and the governor, suspecting that his wife had been unfaithful, hired a locksmith to break into his private closet while he was in New York. He married in 1951, Margaret had become very famous as a celebrity and a stylist, and even released a name on Cole Porter’s song, You’re the Top. Her second husband – and the head of the BBC’s Scandal in Britain – was Ian Douglas Campbell, the 11th Emperor of Argyll.
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