A Very British Scandal

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I'm enjoying it I think. It seems like every episode is about 2 hours long, as its quite slow, but an interesting story. It is hard to have sympathy with her, and she got taught a harsh lesson after she brushed off his other wives warnings, but it seems in real life, he got off scot free, after fleecing 3 women of all their money while she died in penury. His family still live in the castle.
 
NonDairyQueen said:
I'm enjoying it I think. It seems like every episode is about 2 hours long, as its quite slow, but an interesting story. It is hard to have sympathy with her, and she got taught a harsh lesson after she brushed off his other wives warnings, but it seems in real life, he got off scot free, after fleecing 3 women of all their money while she died in penury. His family still live in the castle.
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It's a very interesting story, the judges remarks were most unfair, there was definitely a tone that women should look the other way when their husbands did the same. She was a real beauty in her day and so stylish, I respected her a lot for not throwing her gay friends under the bus.
 
Also I was reading about her, she reconciled with her first husband before his death, they were on speaking terms at least and he helped her out financially after she was evicted from the hotel she was living in. They're buried together.
Yes the letter and photographs were incredibly foolish, it seems she liked to live life on the edge and having a good time😉
 
Many,many years ago I had a dentist that was based in Knightsbridge,I used to love coming out station and walking to the surgery,one day as I was walking I see this very petite lady who had a little dog on a lead she was with a male friend,I looked at her,her features was sculpted very classy looking lady I realised that it was the Duchess,I had been reading all about her,very attractive lady as well as being much older

I think she lived near to where she was walking back then.
 
Libbylulu said:
She was incredibly foolish forging the letter from his ex wife so I can understand his anger. Otherwise he was a terrible man
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And trying to buy a baby! If it wasn't a true story you would think it was too ridiculous. I think she must have just been a bored and hedonistic person who did not think anything through and realised too late that she had got herself into a terrible situation, and had to secure her future the only way she could. I couldn't work out why she had given him so much money for his fantasy treasure hunt and to renovate his castle when the whole lot would just go to his son but she doesn't seem to have thought of that at all. Maybe because it wasn't her money.
 
I loved this, watched all the episodes in one sitting. Certainly, she did some foolish things, but he was awful, just chasing money all the time. I went as a paid visitor to Inveraray Castle when I was a small child, and my abiding memory of the Duke was him walking through the visitors, in a kilt, and he had a huge hole in the heel of his sock. I came from a poorer part of Glasgow, where a hole in a sock would have been shameful, it would have been darned straight away, a darn had some self respect about it at least.
 
HairyWeeTerrier said:
I loved this, watched all the episodes in one sitting. Certainly, she did some foolish things, but he was awful, just chasing money all the time. I went as a paid visitor to Inveraray Castle when I was a small child, and my abiding memory of the Duke was him walking through the visitors, in a kilt, and he had a huge hole in the heel of his sock. I came from a poorer part of Glasgow, where a hole in a sock would have been shameful, it would have been darned straight away, a darn had some self respect about it at least.
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I wonder what the current Duke of Argyll thinks of the programme? Is it his son now or grandson? No doubt the DM will publish a sad face article about how he was just misunderstood if they are unhappy with it.
 
NonDairyQueen said:
I wonder what the current Duke of Argyll thinks of the programme? Is it his son now or grandson? No doubt the DM will publish a sad face article about how he was just misunderstood if they are unhappy with it.
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Grandson. I would love to hear the dirt but he seems quite discreet.
 
Why wasn’t the evidence of him choking her or him taking amphetamines presented at the court?

There are some interesting theories as to who the man in the photo is aka the headless man. But the Duchess took this secret to the grave
 
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