“Guarra”, “promiscua”, “immoral” are some of the qualifiers that in 1963 the magistrate who judged his famous divorce dedicated to Margaret Whigham (1912-1993), the wife of Ian Campbell, Duke of Argyll.
The reason is well known.
The continuous infidelities of the beautiful Duchess of which the Duke was conscious after recording the woman’s desk of him.
That day she found a list of all the men with whom Margaret had been unfaithful, besides three polaroids in which she looked naked by practicing oral sex to a man who conveniently came out with his head out of the framing of photography.
The episode is narrated in the second season of A Very English Scandal (HBO Max).
Claire Foy, the young Isabel II at The Crown, is in charge of incarnating the Casquivana Duchess.
The episode was so scandalous that it was described as the divorce of the century, although most speculations were circumscribed to the identity of the headless man.
It was said that it was actor Douglas Fairbanks, but in 2012 Duchess’s daughter-in-law confessed that it was William H. Lyons, an executive gray of Pan American.
But before his marriage and later divorce, Margaret Whigham was already a legend and not only because Cole Porter (gay although married to a woman also multi-million dollar) was inspired on her to write Youre The Top.
A Chusca translation from one of the best compositions by The American Songbook.
“You are the best! / You are the Colosseum / You are the best! / You are the Louvre Museum, you are a melody of a Symphony of Strauss / a Sonet of Shakespeare / You are Mickey Mouse”.
In his youth, Margaret had already been attention on the part of the press.
Born in a millionaire family of Scottish origin, the Future Duchess grew up in New York following the clichés of the proverbial poor rich girl.
Namely, emotional insecurity, little attention … etc.
When she turned 19, she already accumulated three marriage commitments: Prince Ali Khan, the son of a newspaper magnate and a sportsman also millionaire, of course.
She later confessed to her biographer that she had become pregnant with David Niven, who was only 17 years old and was not famous, but … he aborted.
In 1933, Margaret married as not!
A rich businessman, Charles Sween.
The couple endured until 1947. They had two children but the future Duchess suffered nine spontaneous abortions.
In the brief symbol of her to the restless Margaret gave time to commit to another rich banker.
Four years later, she Margaret met the Duke of Argyll, heir of the Scottish but alcoholic royal house and also addicted to the game and medications, a sequel to the years in which he had been prisoner in Germany during World War II.
Likewise, the two previous women of her counted the continuous abuse of her and the writer Norman Mailer, the son-in-law of her (married to her first-born, Lady Jeanne), said he was “one of the coldest and most unpleasant men” that
She had met.
The happiness of marriage did not last too long.
Divorce demands and contrademits followed each other.
Until the angry Argyll managed to get the novoyometer of the woman of him and the controversial photographs.
The same year of the divorce of him, the aristocrat married Mathilde Coster Mortimer, from which he did not separate until the death of her 10 years after a scandal that made the public’s delights of the time.
Too bad that our current millionaires think they should only go out in the press eating Tofu salad.
By the way, the apocrypha version of Youre The Top had a verse that would have inspired more to Cole Porter and adapted more to the vivacious Duchess of Argyll.
“You are the best / you are the King Kong penis.”
