The case of a sensational divorce and a mystery ‘headless man’ still leaves many questions unanswered, says the writer of a new TV series
The celebrated television writer Sarah Phelps, the woman behind recent popular
Tory minister Duncan Sandys – pictured on his wedding to Diana Churchill in 1935 – was a ‘headless man’ candidate.“The sin that Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, really committed was to break the code of silence, thethat protected the top tier of the upper classes,” Phelps said.
The Conservative government may have assumed this would end the matter. But other contemporary Westminster papers released under the same 30-year rule showed that Sandys had considered resigning from Harold Macmillan’s government over the gossip around the scandal. Sandys died in 1987, but Lord Denning, still alive at that time, then decided to speak out. He told thenewspaper he had incontrovertible evidence that Sandys was not implicated. He had, Denning said, later learned of physical characteristics that made it impossible for the pictured torso to belong to the late commonwealth secretary. However Fairbanks, the film star, stayed in the frame.
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