Episode #1.2
- Episode aired Apr 22, 2022
- 59m
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7.0/10
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Putting aside gnawing doubts about her marriage, Margaret continues with her plan to secure her claim to Inveraray Castle.Putting aside gnawing doubts about her marriage, Margaret continues with her plan to secure her claim to Inveraray Castle.Putting aside gnawing doubts about her marriage, Margaret continues with her plan to secure her claim to Inveraray Castle.
Tony Atherton
- Garden Party Guest
- (uncredited)
- …
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- TriviaThis episode features a character billed in the cast only as "Polaroid Man", whose face is unseen, who never speaks and who is not identified by name. This character represents "the headless man" featured in a Polaroid photograph produced during the 1963 divorce proceedings, in which the Duchess of Argyll was shown performing fellatio on one of her lovers, whose head was out of shot so that he could not be identified. The Duchess went to her grave without naming this man; he was popularly believed to be Duncan Sandys, a prominent Tory minister in the early 1960s and the former son-in-law (and close wartime colleague) of Sir Winston Churchill. Some sources suggested that he may have been the actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Another Tory politician, Lord Hailsham, denied publicly that it was him, although no-one had ever supposed that it was. In the 21st century, one of the Duchess's children claimed it was an American named Bill Lyons, an executive with Pan-American Airlines. Nothing has ever been confirmed.
- GoofsDuring her quarrel with Margaret, Yvonne accuses her of humiliating her husband (after he has endorsed Argyll socks for a print advert) by "forcing him to shill for a firm making mass-produced socks". "Shill" is, in this context, an Americanism which is rare enough in Britain in the 21st century and which would certainly never have been used by an upper-middle-class Englishwoman talking to a duchess in the 1950s.
- Quotes
Yvonne MacPherson: If you are going to tell lies; do try to make them plausible.
Margaret Campbell: [telling Yvonne to leave her] You know Yvonne. I think you have just remembered a very important engagement.
Yvonne MacPherson: Do you know? I think you're right. I have.
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Strong Performances Give Credit To The Story
Both Claire Foy and Paul Bettany are two of todays most outstanding actors. They are at their best in this mini-series. Any comparison to the Depp-Heard scandal is silly. This movie is based on a true story that happened nearly a century ago. The atrocities perpetrated on the part of both the Duke and the Dutchess are well documented. I believe the writer, director and actors did a superb job of telling a very sad story about the union of two people that should never have United.
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- May 26, 2022
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- Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK(Luton Hoo Hotel)
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