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‘A Very British Scandal’ Only Begins to Tease One of the Most Shocking Divorces in British History: TV Review

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Amber Dowling Long before Britney Spears or Pamela Anderson, there was Margaret Whigham, the 1930s British socialite more famously known as the Duchess of Argyll.

The only child in a wealthy Scottish family, Margaret’s beauty, fashion sense and string of high-profile romances made her constant tabloid fodder.

But it was her extremely public 1963 divorce from Ian Campbell, the Duke of Argyll, that forever tainted her name with the general public.That “divorce of the century” serves as the story at the heart of Prime Video’s three-part limited project, “A Very British Scandal.” The drama — and what it says about the double standards to which women in the public eye are held — feels eerily timely in the wake of our recent re-examination of how figures like Spears and Anderson have been treated in the media.

The story never fails to drive that message home, but in end that may also be its biggest flaw.Although Margaret, played here by Claire Foy (“The Crown”), lived a complex and interesting life full of potentially palpable TV moments, the focus remains on her marriage to Campbell (Paul Bettany, “WandaVision”) and its stranger-than-fiction unraveling.

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