Somewhat bizarre little biography, ghost-written for the Duchess of Argyll, who was once the toast of the London season in the 1930s. It was quite enjoyable for a glimpse of what the privileged world of the 1930s upper crust was like in London. There is also quite a lot about her second husband and what sounds like over-the-top vengeance over her affairs with other men. He ruined her position in society with an unnecessarily messy and prolonged divorce, full of suits, countersuits, stolen dairie
Somewhat bizarre little biography, ghost-written for the Duchess of Argyll, who was once the toast of the London season in the 1930s. It was quite enjoyable for a glimpse of what the privileged world of the 1930s upper crust was like in London. There is also quite a lot about her second husband and what sounds like over-the-top vengeance over her affairs with other men. He ruined her position in society with an unnecessarily messy and prolonged divorce, full of suits, countersuits, stolen dairies, restraining orders, and a punitive judge who thought women should be held to a higher moral standard than men. When you read elsewhere about Margaret's life, there are salacious details, in flagrante photographs, and an odd theory about a 40-foot fall down an elevator shaft causing her to become sexually voracious. She was clearly an unhappy person, for all her wealth, beauty and position, and she ended her days in penury and bitterness.
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Margaret, Duchess of Argyll (born Ethel Margaret Whigham, 1 December 1912 – 25 July 1993), was a notorious British Socialite, best remembered for her 1963 divorce case against her second husband, the 11th Duke of Argyll, which featured salacious photographs and scandalous stories.