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A Very English Scandal returns to TV with tale of 'dirty duchess'

After Hugh Grant’s hit turn as Jeremy Thorpe, the series will spotlight a different case, effectively becoming an anthology show

A Very English Scandal, the Golden Globe-winning BBC drama about the Jeremy Thorpe affair, will return for a second series by looking at a very different scandal: the notorious divorce case of Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, known by some back in 1963 as the “Dirty Duchess”.

“We’re going to focus on the very public divorce from her second husband. He went through her private desk and found a list of all the men she’d slept with,” producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins told the Radio Times. He also found compromising Polaroids of her wearing nothing but pearls with a man whose face was not in the pictures.

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from Culture | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2DHZ6mM

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