Actor plays Duchess of Argyll, subject of infamous 1963 divorce case, in upcoming BBC drama
‘It’s the grimmest thing you can do.’ Claire Foy as the Duchess of Argyll in A Very British Scandal, which airs on BBC One on Boxing Day.‘It’s the grimmest thing you can do.’ Claire Foy as the Duchess of Argyll in A Very British Scandal, which airs on BBC One on Boxing Day.Last modified on Tue 21 Dec 2021 11.
The 1963 hearing focused heavily on the duchess’s sex life, with her husband Ian Campbell publicly estimating the number of men with whom he believed she had had sex, as well as providing explicit pictures purporting to show her in the act.onscreen adaptation “But my thing was that I felt very strongly that it had to be in it, but I wanted it to be female. I did not want it be that sort of awful climactic sexual experience you often see on the cinema screen,” she told BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.
The fact that the couple had an open marriage her husband had also exploited and that he had stolen her private property and reportedly sought the divorce only when she stopped paying his bills was deemed largely irrelevant.
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