"I don't think anybody has real style or class any more. Everyone's got old and fat"
She described herself "always vain.. always a poodle, only a poodle! That, and 3 strands of pearls! Together they are absolutely essential things in life"
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Photo:Allan Warren
She described herself "always vain.. always a poodle, only a poodle! That, and 3 strands of pearls! Together they are absolutely essential things in life"
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Photo:Allan Warren
In 1943 the Duchess had a fall down an elevator shaft.
After recovery friends noted that not only had she lost all sense of taste and smell due to nerve damage, she also had become sexually voracious. She once reportedly said, “Go to bed early and often.”
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After recovery friends noted that not only had she lost all sense of taste and smell due to nerve damage, she also had become sexually voracious. She once reportedly said, “Go to bed early and often.”
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Here the Duchess of Argyll is being interviewed by Melvyn Bragg
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https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1475421201795272705?s=20
There are several clips of BBC interviews with the Duchess of Argyll on this BBC Archive website:
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@mitfordsociety wrote a book on the Duchess of Argyll and has been tweeting alongside this series what she knows about her life
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Prophetically in 1988, Terry Wogan asked Margaret Campbell, the #DuchessofArgyll, about the possibility that one day, her life might become a television series...
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Extravagant lifestyle and ill-considered investments left the #DuchessofArgyll largely penniless by the time she died.
In 1990, unable to pay bills she was evicted. With the support of friends and her first husband she moved to an apartment.
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In 1990, unable to pay bills she was evicted. With the support of friends and her first husband she moved to an apartment.
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Her children later placed her in a nursing home in Pimlico, London
She died in penury in 1993 after a bad fall in the nursing home
She was buried alongside her first husband, Charles Sweeny, in Brookwood Cemetery in Woking, Surrey.
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She died in penury in 1993 after a bad fall in the nursing home
She was buried alongside her first husband, Charles Sweeny, in Brookwood Cemetery in Woking, Surrey.
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@BBCSounds has a podcast episode on the #DuchessofArgyll with #AVeryBritishScandal writer @PhelpsieSarah ⬇️
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When devising #AVeryBritishScandal, BBC's follow up to Hugh Grant's #AVeryEnglishScandal, one story considered for it was the life of Cynthia Payne. She ran a brothel in Streatham, south London. But Sarah Phelps suggested Margaret, Duchess of Argyll instead.
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