1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:05,240 Speaker 1: Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of iHeartRadio and Grimm 2 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: and Mild from Aaron Manky listener discretion advised. In nineteen 3 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 1: thirty one, a socialite named Ethel Margaret Wigham held her 4 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:25,800 Speaker 1: nineteenth birthday party at the Embassy Club, one of London's 5 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:29,159 Speaker 1: most exclusive supper clubs at the time. It was the 6 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 1: kind of place where film stars and royalty commingled, and 7 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:37,560 Speaker 1: Margaret was the center of it all. She was the beautiful, 8 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:41,840 Speaker 1: wealthy daughter of a Scottish businessman, and after her coming 9 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: out as Debutante of the Year in nineteen thirty she 10 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:49,279 Speaker 1: soon became a darling of London society thanks to her 11 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: glamorous fashion and her aura of confidence. According to legend, 12 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: the night of the birthday party, Margaret had an astrologer 13 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: predict her future. I see happiness, laughter, much love, but 14 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:09,959 Speaker 1: beware there is danger. Danger from what Margaret asked, treachery. 15 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:14,319 Speaker 1: The astrologer replied, you will be betrayed by the people 16 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:20,479 Speaker 1: you trust. Flash forward thirty years and Margaret, then fifty 17 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:24,479 Speaker 1: years old and the Duchess of Argyle, arrived at court 18 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 1: wearing a tailored peacoat, mink wrap and pearl earrings. She 19 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 1: was there to begin the divorce proceedings from her second husband, 20 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: the Duke of Argyle, which would end up being the 21 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 1: longest and costliest divorce proceedings British history had ever seen. 22 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: The couple had met after Margaret's divorce from her first husband, 23 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 1: American businessman Charles Sweeney, but it soon became clear that 24 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 1: Margaret had found another doomed match. The Duke was filing 25 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 1: for divorce from his wife on the grounds of adultery, 26 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: alleging that Margaret had taken eighty eight lovers in their 27 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 1: time together, a list of lovers that included cabinet ministers, 28 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: Hollywood actors, and royals. It was a tabloid frenzy, not 29 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 1: only thanks to the couple's titles and the breadth of 30 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 1: the accusation, but because of the voyeuristic intimate details that 31 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 1: were being made public. Margaret later described her second husband 32 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 1: as quote in every essence a Gemini Gemini. People are 33 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:38,239 Speaker 1: usually two faced, aren't they? You should never trust them? 34 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 1: Charming and treacherous. The story of the Argyle divorce and 35 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 1: the story of Margaret's life are both complicated ones to tell. 36 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: It's hard to separate the truth from the tabloid narrative, 37 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: and it's hard to discern what the truth even is 38 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: at all. Margaret's recountenances are filled with contradictions, misrememberings, and, 39 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 1: according to some outright lies. In more recent years, there 40 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:10,800 Speaker 1: have been attempts to reframe Britain's view of Margaret with 41 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 1: our modern understanding of issues at play, like slutshaming and 42 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: ideas about revenge porn. Last year, the BBC aired the 43 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: drama A Very British Scandal, which sought to paint a 44 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: more nuanced, insightful portrait of the inner lives of the 45 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 1: subjects at the heart of the scandal. But as you 46 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: might imagine, television is meant to entertain, and the show 47 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: still provides all of the sensationalized scandal that you might 48 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 1: hope for from its title. Perhaps in the end, that's 49 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: the only way you can really do justice to the 50 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 1: story of the woman who thought of herself as a sensation. 51 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: Later in life, Margaret would reflect quote, I had wealth, 52 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 1: I had good looks as a young woman, I had 53 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 1: been constantly photographed, written about, flattered, admired. Included in the 54 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 1: ten Best Dressed Women in the World list and mentioned 55 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 1: by Cole Porter in the words of his hit song 56 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 1: You're the Top. The top was what I was supposed 57 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 1: to be. That last claim is actually only a half truth. 58 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 1: In the original version of his song for the musical 59 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:26,840 Speaker 1: Anything Goes, Coleporter never wrote a line about Margaret. The 60 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: original lyric of the song and the one that is 61 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:34,040 Speaker 1: used today goes You're an O'Neill drama, your Whistler's Mama, 62 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 1: great charming. But in nineteen thirty five there was a 63 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 1: British production of Anything Goes with some of the lyrics 64 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:48,039 Speaker 1: anglicized by P. G. Woodhouse. Today, that one production is 65 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:52,920 Speaker 1: a curio of history with lyrics that sound not only 66 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 1: less relevant but downright confusing to some listeners today. Whatever 67 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 1: you're expecting the angler size lyric to be, it's probably 68 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 1: not this, But the P. G. Woodhouse couplet goes your Mussolini, 69 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:14,799 Speaker 1: your missus Sweeney, missus Sweeney, of course, referencing Margaret. Any 70 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 1: person who could share a lyric with Mussolini, where audiences 71 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: would think, yes, those two people are of the same 72 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: cultural cachet certainly deserves our historical examination. Unfortunately, for all 73 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 1: of the glamour of Margaret Wigham Sweeney Campbell's life, there 74 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: was also a twisted undercurrent of pain and a now 75 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: all too modern story about how tabloid media builds women 76 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: up just to tear them down. I'm Danish Sports and 77 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 1: this is noble blood. Margaret was the only child of 78 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:00,919 Speaker 1: George Wigham, the millionaire chairman of the selling Nanse Corporation, 79 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: and his wife Helen. Though Margaret was born on her 80 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:08,279 Speaker 1: maternal grandparents estate in a sleepy Scottish town a few 81 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 1: miles outside of Glasgow, Margaret's first memory of a home 82 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 1: was the Park Avenue apartment in New York City, where 83 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 1: she spent much of her childhood. Margaret recalled having no 84 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 1: friends as a girl, preferring to keep the company of 85 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 1: teddy bears. When she wasn't with the teddies, she preferred 86 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:30,039 Speaker 1: the company of her parents. As the only child of 87 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 1: a wealthy family, she became spoiled and close with her 88 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: doting father. Her relationship with her mother was more difficult. 89 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: Margaret would later recall that she would enter her mother's 90 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:45,040 Speaker 1: bedroom each morning, not knowing if she was going to 91 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 1: be quote bright and loving or complaining and bad tempered. 92 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:54,039 Speaker 1: As Margaret grew up, her mother became obsessive over her 93 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 1: daughter's appearance. The fixation with looks likely came from Helen's 94 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: own childhood insecurities from never feeling like she was attractive 95 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:07,719 Speaker 1: enough compared to her siblings. The constant attention given to 96 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: Margaret's looks, even though it was negative, made the young 97 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:17,240 Speaker 1: Margaret a self described vain little girl. Her mother also 98 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 1: took issue with Margaret's developing stammer, which began after she 99 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 1: was forced to start writing with her right hand, even 100 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 1: though she was naturally left handed. Margaret was taken to 101 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: London to be treated by Lionel Lowe, the same speech 102 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: therapist who helped King George the sixth manage his stammer, 103 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 1: who you might have seen portrayed by Jeffrey Rush in 104 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: the movie The King's Speech. The real Lionel's methods proved 105 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 1: ineffective on Margaret, much to her mother's disappointment. Margaret would 106 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 1: later recount her mother telling her, no matter how pretty 107 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: you are, Margaret, you will get nowhere in life if 108 00:07:55,800 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 1: you stammer. As Margaret grew older, the effect of a 109 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 1: childhood without hearing the word no from her father began 110 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 1: to cement in Margaret's personality. She believed that anything could 111 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 1: be bought, and she had little respect for authority or 112 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 1: for any adults who weren't her parents. Though Margaret was 113 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 1: beginning to physically appear older and present herself as more sophisticated, 114 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 1: she still doated on the teddy bears from her childhood, 115 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: much to her mother's chagrin. One day, Margaret forgot to 116 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 1: bring her teddy bears inside from the lawn and found 117 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 1: them the next morning soaked and destroyed. She would consider 118 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 1: this the spiritual end of her childhood. Margaret's mother soon 119 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:46,840 Speaker 1: gave her the talk, which Margaret recalled as going something 120 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 1: like quote, it's this awful thing we women have to 121 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 1: put up with, we close our eyes and bear it. 122 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 1: Margaret had no desire to hear about this, and the 123 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 1: discomfort with the topic of sex stuck with her for 124 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:05,319 Speaker 1: some time. Margaret's parents thought she was growing up too fast, 125 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 1: and so she was transferred to the Heathfield School, where 126 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: girls learned academics, played lacrosse, and attended twice daily prayer. 127 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 1: None of that interested Margaret, who detested the school's expectations 128 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:23,840 Speaker 1: of conformity. She once retreated from her peers and noted 129 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:27,199 Speaker 1: that she had no friends at the school. Proclaiming quote, 130 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:29,960 Speaker 1: I don't like women in a mass I think they 131 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 1: should be individuals. Margaret was brought to and from school 132 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: every day in a chauffeur driven Rolls Royce, which probably 133 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 1: provides some indication as to how her fellow students saw her. 134 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 1: Margaret felt that the disdain with which the other girls 135 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: treated her was earned simply because she was much more 136 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 1: sophisticated than them. As the car drove away, she shouted 137 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:57,320 Speaker 1: bye bye, girls. Enjoy your hockey and your lacrosse. I'm 138 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: off to a matinee in London. She was at the 139 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:03,839 Speaker 1: school for only two months before her family was forced 140 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: to make a decision. Margaret could live at the school 141 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 1: as a boarder or she'd be forced to leave, so 142 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:15,959 Speaker 1: she left and began learning from a governess. During that time, 143 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 1: Margaret found her passion for boys. She was surprised to 144 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 1: find they liked her speech impediment, seeing it as of 145 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 1: vulnerability they could care for, something she described as a 146 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 1: cold comfort. When Margaret was fifteen, her family spent the 147 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: Easter holiday at Bembridge on the Isle of Wight. It 148 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 1: was there she met David Niven, a seventeen year old 149 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:44,320 Speaker 1: public schoolboy and future Oscar winning actor. Margaret became infatuated 150 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 1: and soon lost her virginity to him. Even when she 151 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 1: returned home from the vacation, she couldn't stop thinking about David, 152 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 1: and she roped a friend into sneaking off to London 153 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: with her to visit him, an incredibly bold move for 154 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:00,520 Speaker 1: a woman, let alone a fifteen year old girl of 155 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 1: the time. Her rebellious streak came to a sudden halt 156 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:09,720 Speaker 1: when she learned she was pregnant. Her father was furious 157 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 1: and all hell broke loose in the house. This was 158 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:18,200 Speaker 1: the nineteen twenties and teen pregnancy is still taboo today. 159 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 1: Margaret underwent a secret abortion and no one was to 160 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 1: speak of the quote incident again. In nineteen twenty nine, 161 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:32,840 Speaker 1: Margaret and her mother began preparing for Margaret's debut as 162 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 1: a debutante, despite being a year younger than the typical 163 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 1: deb Margaret reflected that quote, my mother must have realized 164 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:44,679 Speaker 1: that there was no holding me back. On May first, 165 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 1: nineteen thirty, the first day of the London Social season, 166 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 1: Margaret's coming out party was held. Their bold choice to 167 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:57,479 Speaker 1: kick off the season was backed up by an unlimited 168 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:02,679 Speaker 1: dress budget. They were determined to make a splash. Margaret's 169 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 1: popularity with boys, while recently traumatizing to her family, led 170 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: her mother to see Margaret in a new light. Margaret 171 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 1: was no longer simply the stuttering, plain looking creature who 172 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 1: seemed so foreign to her. The nineteen thirty's wave of 173 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 1: debutantes favored women like Margaret, bright and bold, fashionable and modern. Quote. 174 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 1: The girls of the nineteen thirties not only had good looks, 175 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 1: they knew how to dress, and they had far more 176 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 1: self confidence than their predecessors. Margaret would later reflect. Margaret's 177 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 1: party cost forty thousand pounds and entertained four hundred guests. 178 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:46,560 Speaker 1: She made her entrance to the sound of a big 179 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:50,200 Speaker 1: band orchestra, and she was dressed in a Norman Hartnell 180 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 1: turquoise dress embroidered with diamonds and pearls. Her mother had 181 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 1: insisted that she wear white, the traditional color for debutantes, 182 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 1: but Margaret wanted to stand out from the others. She 183 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:06,679 Speaker 1: purposely stained the white dress that her mom had bought 184 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:10,319 Speaker 1: for her, which of course forced her to change into 185 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 1: the turquoise one. The dress is designer Norman Hartnell would 186 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:18,840 Speaker 1: eventually become dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth the scond and Margaret 187 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:22,840 Speaker 1: would credit herself with Hartnell's rise to fame, and we 188 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:27,840 Speaker 1: can't say she's entirely wrong. She was a bonafied sensation. 189 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:31,959 Speaker 1: One society column summed it up by saying, quote, she 190 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:35,960 Speaker 1: shone out above everyone else, as is fitting for the 191 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:40,080 Speaker 1: heroine of such an evening. Throughout the season, at just 192 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 1: seventeen years old, she became one of the most photographed 193 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 1: women in London, and magazines called her the prettiest debutante 194 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 1: of the set. Margaret's celebrity was on the rise, and 195 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 1: her mother, Helen, began to grow exhausted by the number 196 00:13:56,040 --> 00:14:01,079 Speaker 1: of different invitations her daughter received. Eventually, Helen stopped going 197 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 1: with her altogether, leaving Margaret to attend events unchaperoned. It 198 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 1: was during this time that Margaret developed what she called 199 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 1: the Wigham system. She danced with any boy who asked 200 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:17,199 Speaker 1: her for the first half of the night, decide her favorites, 201 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 1: and then dance only with them for the second. The 202 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 1: men didn't mind, but other debs began to refer to 203 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 1: her as quote that Maggie Wiggham. That year, she also 204 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 1: began to frequent clubs like the Embassy with a different 205 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 1: number of men, including the Prince Ali Khan, who tried 206 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:39,840 Speaker 1: to marry her side note he would later marry Rita Hayworth. 207 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 1: And Margaret also developed a sizeable friend group of other 208 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 1: society women. One of the men she would eventually charm 209 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 1: was American businessman Charles Sweeney, who claimed to initially dislike her. 210 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 1: I could not stand her, he wrote to me. She 211 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 1: was a conceited, garrulous show off whose company I avoided 212 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 1: as much as I could. Their mutual friend groups made 213 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 1: encounters unavoidable, and one night, due to them both ending 214 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: up without a partner, they agreed to be each other's 215 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 1: dates to the Embassy Club. Sweeney would write that that 216 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: night changed everything. He quote fell under the spell of 217 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: Margaret Wigham's charm. After a few more dates, Charles Sweeney 218 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 1: unofficially proposed, and she accepted. This meant the world to him, 219 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 1: but little to Margaret, who didn't see proposals as real commitments. 220 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 1: The proof is in the fact that she soon also 221 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 1: became unofficially engaged to their friend Max Aiken. Neither of 222 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 1: the men knowing about the engagement she had to the other. Eventually, 223 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: despite a third, more formal engagement being thrown into the mix. 224 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 1: Margaret had begun to see more of Sweeney, who was 225 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 1: hurt by her betrayal of multiple engagements but still harbored feelings. 226 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 1: Once more, Margaret had officially broken off the other engagements. 227 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 1: She and Charles Sweeney became officially engaged. The wedding date 228 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: was set, and her time as quote the Wigham as 229 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: the press called her, was coming to an end. The 230 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 1: wedding was a glamorous affair, so many onlookers and members 231 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 1: of the press wanted to see her heartnel dress, which 232 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 1: featured an eighteen foot train embroidered with orange blossoms that 233 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 1: surrounding traffic was blocked for three hours. The literal traffic 234 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 1: stopping dress was recently displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum. 235 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 1: After the wedding, Margaret would become pregnant, but it would 236 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 1: be the first in a series of miscarriages, of which 237 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 1: there would be eight total. During a later pregnancy, Margaret 238 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 1: became so ill that the baby had to be delivered 239 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 1: stillborn in order to save her life. Margaret fell into 240 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 1: a deep depression, both from the loss of the child 241 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 1: but also from Charlie's absence. Despite staying at her side 242 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:10,520 Speaker 1: droughout her illness. As she recovered, he would visit her 243 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 1: briefly in the hospital each night before heading out to 244 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:17,480 Speaker 1: a club. While it would still be a while before 245 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:22,200 Speaker 1: their divorce, that dynamic, no doubt, reaffirmed Margaret's feeling that 246 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 1: Charlie Sweeney did not see her for the person she was. 247 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:29,119 Speaker 1: That quote, all he wanted for a wife was a 248 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 1: pretty brainless doll. She tried to be that for the 249 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 1: next several years, but as World War II began, their 250 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 1: focus was torn away from their personal conflicts, and each 251 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 1: contributed in their own way to the war effort. While 252 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:48,200 Speaker 1: the couple did eventually have two children together, the tears 253 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:52,800 Speaker 1: in their marriage were forever evident. Both of them committed adultery, 254 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 1: but neither would accept the blame for the dissolution of 255 00:17:56,040 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: the relationship. In nineteen forty seven, the pair officially divorced. 256 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:06,960 Speaker 1: Margaret was thirty four years old. In the wake of 257 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 1: the Second World War, the London social scene was just 258 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:15,360 Speaker 1: beginning to return, and Margaret was now ready to return 259 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:19,159 Speaker 1: with it. She would find the next major phase of 260 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,399 Speaker 1: her life beginning not in London, though, but on a 261 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 1: train to Paris, where she would be seated across from 262 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:29,159 Speaker 1: a tall man with a pointed nose. She'd come to 263 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 1: learn that his name was Ian Campbell and that he 264 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:36,120 Speaker 1: would soon be the Duke of Argyle. He already knew 265 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 1: who she was. Apparently over a decade earlier, he had 266 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 1: seen Margaret on the staircase of a London nightclub, and 267 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 1: he turned to his wife at the time and said 268 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 1: quote that captivating creature is the woman I'm going to 269 00:18:53,200 --> 00:19:02,399 Speaker 1: marry someday. Ian Douglas Campbell was penniless but titled. His 270 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:06,440 Speaker 1: great grandfather was the eighth Duke of Argyle, and thanks 271 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 1: to the ninth and tenth not having sons, Ian inherited 272 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 1: his family's title and home in Verrey Castle from his 273 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:18,360 Speaker 1: second cousin, the eleventh Duke of Argyle, was a bit 274 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:22,200 Speaker 1: of a mad academic, and his neglect of the castle 275 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:25,679 Speaker 1: in favor of other pursuits saw it fall into ruin. 276 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:30,400 Speaker 1: That meant that Ian also inherited the responsibility of restoring 277 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: the estate. For this he depended on his wife Janet 278 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:39,600 Speaker 1: and then his second wife Louise, both heiresses. Ian himself 279 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:44,399 Speaker 1: never worked and was addicted to alcohol, drugs and gambling 280 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:49,160 Speaker 1: even before his dukedom, he was in deep debt. Both 281 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,359 Speaker 1: of his wives would later accuse him of abuse and 282 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 1: squandering their money. Years later, his future son in law 283 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:00,359 Speaker 1: would describe him as quote one of the cold list 284 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:05,680 Speaker 1: nastiest men I've ever known in a wild cameo. That 285 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,879 Speaker 1: future son in law also just happened to be the 286 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:13,119 Speaker 1: writer Norman Mahler, who if you know anything about Norman Mayler, 287 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 1: you know that he might have given Ian a run 288 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:19,200 Speaker 1: for his money in the bad husband department. But back 289 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 1: to Ian and Margaret. When the pair met, they were 290 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 1: both recently single, Ian and his wife having separated after 291 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:31,320 Speaker 1: the war on the grounds of mutual adultery. I can 292 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 1: imagine that pointing out other women he wanted to marry 293 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 1: while the two were together didn't help. On that train 294 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:41,480 Speaker 1: ride to Paris where they met, Margaret was a sympathetic 295 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:45,720 Speaker 1: listener to ian struggles, and he to hers. Ian had 296 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: been a prisoner of war and he was readjusting to 297 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 1: a life of freedom. Both were starved for connection. Margaret 298 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 1: invited Ian back to her home as soon as they 299 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 1: arrived in London, and there they slept together for the 300 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:03,639 Speaker 1: first time. Margaret soon began to pursue Ian with the 301 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:08,120 Speaker 1: intention of marriage. Her first husband, Charlie would later write 302 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:12,119 Speaker 1: in his memoir she had always been intrigued by the 303 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 1: idea of becoming a duchess Ian. By this point, officially, 304 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 1: the Duke was still in the process of persuading Louise 305 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 1: to agree to an official divorce. He was thrilled by 306 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:27,199 Speaker 1: Margaret's pursuit of him. This time, he didn't have to 307 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 1: do the work of finding an heiress himself. Their courtship 308 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 1: was largely secretive due to his status as technically a 309 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:39,239 Speaker 1: married man and hers as a divorcee. One night, they 310 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 1: attended a West End play together, Ring Round the Moon, 311 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 1: about a twins attempt to rescue his brother from what 312 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 1: he believes will be a disastrous marriage. In hindsight, it 313 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 1: seems like an omen that evening Ian proposed to Margaret 314 00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:58,679 Speaker 1: with the promise that as soon as the divorce with 315 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:03,440 Speaker 1: Louise was finalized, she would be his duchess. Of course, 316 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 1: Margaret accepted. Ian's charm worked on Margaret's parents just as 317 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:12,959 Speaker 1: it had on her. They were impressed with his title, 318 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 1: and they were excited at the prospect of their daughter 319 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:20,640 Speaker 1: becoming a duchess Ian. Even immediately charmed George into becoming 320 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 1: a patron of the Campbell clan, and he pledged twenty 321 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:30,119 Speaker 1: five thousand pounds towards Verrey's restoration, with no return expected. 322 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 1: Margaret herself was determined to bring the castle back to 323 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:38,119 Speaker 1: its former glory, and she blamed much of its current 324 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 1: disarray on Louise, his ex wife, and not Ian himself. 325 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 1: For Margaret and her father's donations, they received a deed 326 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 1: of gift which will come back to bite her later. 327 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:56,640 Speaker 1: But in nineteen fifty one, Louise finally agreed to the divorce, 328 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 1: but with Ian about to be officially Margaret, he began 329 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 1: to reveal his true colors for the first time. Unprompted, 330 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 1: one night, he launched into a verbal attack on Margaret's children, 331 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:16,359 Speaker 1: her father, even Margaret herself. The next morning, she asked 332 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:19,640 Speaker 1: him what had provoked his rage, which only sent him 333 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:23,879 Speaker 1: into another tirade. This was just days before their wedding. 334 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:26,680 Speaker 1: She felt that it was too late to back out, 335 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 1: and she was too ashamed to tell her father, who 336 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 1: she knew would tell her to call off the marriage 337 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:36,120 Speaker 1: and prioritize her happiness, the advice that he had given 338 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 1: her during one of her earlier engagements. Plus there was 339 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,520 Speaker 1: the guilt that Margaret felt about the money they had 340 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:47,480 Speaker 1: already sunk into Ian's castle, so Margaret wrote it off 341 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: and went through with the marriage. On the eve of 342 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,160 Speaker 1: Margaret and Ian's wedding, she received a letter from her 343 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 1: ex husband, Charlie, warning her not to marry Ian. Charlie 344 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:02,159 Speaker 1: had spoken with with Louise, who had told him of 345 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 1: Ian's opportunistic scheming and his mistreatment of her and their sons. 346 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:11,960 Speaker 1: Charlie Sweeney wrote quote, I only hope you're not deluding 347 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:16,119 Speaker 1: yourself that Campbell is inspired by any great love, because 348 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:21,639 Speaker 1: he's not. Margaret ignored this letter, thinking that both Charlie 349 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: and Louise were jealous bitter exes. Margaret and Ian were 350 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:33,400 Speaker 1: married on March twenty second, nineteen fifty one, six hours 351 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,199 Speaker 1: after the divorce with Louise was official. It was a 352 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:42,280 Speaker 1: smaller ceremony, a far cry from Margaret's first wedding. This time, 353 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,120 Speaker 1: she wore a gray chiffon dress with a pussy bow, 354 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:49,719 Speaker 1: a feathered hat, and her signature set of pearls. The 355 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,960 Speaker 1: two honeymooned at Inveray, and she spent the time in 356 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:57,680 Speaker 1: workman's overalls immediately following through on her promise to help 357 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 1: restore the castle. Host of Margaret's work was unfruitful. Inverrat 358 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 1: was beginning to seem like a lost cause. The money 359 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,920 Speaker 1: she was putting into the castle was also being put 360 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:15,360 Speaker 1: towards Ian's debts, which she learned about upon their return 361 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 1: to the home. As much as Margaret cared about restoring 362 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:23,240 Speaker 1: the castle, she was not suited to life in the countryside, 363 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,400 Speaker 1: and it was agreed that Margaret would keep her home 364 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:31,040 Speaker 1: in London for social visits. As you might have predicted, 365 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:36,320 Speaker 1: Ian's character didn't improve after the wedding. He would often 366 00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:40,439 Speaker 1: get into public altercations, and Margaret spent much of their 367 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:44,960 Speaker 1: time together in public apologizing for him. His verbal abuse 368 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 1: eventually escalated into physical violence, and during a trip to Jamaica, 369 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:54,160 Speaker 1: Margaret remembers an acquaintance having to rush into their room 370 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:58,959 Speaker 1: to stop Ian from physically attacking her. Margaret attempted to 371 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 1: prevent her husband from drinking so often, hoping to return 372 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:06,159 Speaker 1: him to the man she originally knew. She offered to 373 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:10,639 Speaker 1: recreate his favorite club Whites, in their home so that 374 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 1: he could avoid the party atmosphere, but he bitterly explained 375 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:19,680 Speaker 1: that he went to the club to escape her. Ian 376 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 1: began to belittle her in front of her friends, and 377 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:27,400 Speaker 1: as a result, her stammer started to worsen, which made 378 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,400 Speaker 1: it difficult for her to speak up for herself. Margaret 379 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:36,160 Speaker 1: later wrote that quote Ian had a markedly sadistic streak 380 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 1: in his character. Things like that were done deliberately to 381 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:43,960 Speaker 1: hurt me, and hurt me they always did. I realize 382 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,680 Speaker 1: now that if I had not given him the satisfaction 383 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:50,600 Speaker 1: of knowing this, Ian would have been deprived of much pleasure. 384 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:57,240 Speaker 1: Their relationship was complicated by Ian's manipulative nature and Margaret's 385 00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 1: willingness to make excuses for it. Quote he toyed with 386 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,680 Speaker 1: me as a cat plays with a mouse. Every time 387 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 1: he sent that I had come to the end of 388 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 1: my teather. He would then choose to become his most 389 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 1: agreeable self, ready to do anything to please me. Eventually, 390 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 1: after three years of marriage, Inveray was ready to open 391 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,880 Speaker 1: to the public for tours. Ian took his role as 392 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 1: duke seriously and spent his days greeting visitors and leading tours. 393 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,160 Speaker 1: Margaret was hopeful that he had turned a new leaf, 394 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,399 Speaker 1: but when the tourist season ended, he reverted right back 395 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:39,159 Speaker 1: to his old cruel ways. Margaret decided to take a 396 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:44,800 Speaker 1: trip abroad, and their lives and eventually homes became separate. 397 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:50,239 Speaker 1: They remained married, but Margaret considered nineteen fifty six to 398 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 1: be the real turning point for the rest of her life. 399 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 1: This is where things take a turn for the soap operatic. 400 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 1: The divorce wasn't actually the first legal proceeding that would 401 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:07,800 Speaker 1: make the Argyles headlines. That was actually a libel suit 402 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 1: against Margaret from Ian's secretary. Vn McPherson was the widow 403 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 1: of a man who had been a prisoner of war 404 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: with Ian, and so their connection between Von and Ian 405 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:24,199 Speaker 1: went beyond the typical employer employee relationship. Vaughn's loyalty to 406 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 1: Ian was so apparent that Margaret began to believe that 407 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 1: the two were conspiring against her. Margaret's assessment that Ian 408 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 1: could do something drastic wasn't entirely out of nowhere. Ian 409 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 1: had recently recovered from influenza, but had become addicted to drinimil, 410 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 1: a drug that was so widely abused in the UK 411 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,880 Speaker 1: at the time that it's no longer prescribed. The drugs 412 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,960 Speaker 1: led to bouts of erratic behavior and mania. We don't 413 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:59,040 Speaker 1: know if Margaret's suspicions about yvon were accurate, but Ian 414 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:03,040 Speaker 1: was in act plotting against her with his doctor to 415 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 1: have her certified as insane. Years earlier, Margaret had fallen 416 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 1: down an elevator shaft, and the pair Ian and his 417 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:16,000 Speaker 1: doctor wanted to claim that it had caused brain damage. 418 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 1: To do so, they needed a note from Margaret's doctor, 419 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 1: who had refused and informed her of their plan. Margaret, 420 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 1: even having her paranoia validated, continued just to blame her 421 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 1: husband's actions on the drenamine and so loyal as ever 422 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:36,600 Speaker 1: to her husband, Margaret focused on the belief that Yvonne 423 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:40,040 Speaker 1: was the one speaking to the press. She later claimed 424 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 1: that the proprietor of the Daily Mail told her that 425 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,920 Speaker 1: Yvonne was on the books for years, but there's no 426 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:50,200 Speaker 1: actual evidence. Margaret was so convinced in fact, and so 427 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 1: determined to prove her case, that she sent Ian a 428 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 1: fake telegram pretending it was from Yvonne. It read quote 429 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,880 Speaker 1: rushing off for ten but all is ready as we 430 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 1: planned to tear strips off Margaret financially and otherwise a 431 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 1: million Thanks for your love, support and invaluable information without 432 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 1: which I would be helpless. Happy Easter and then into 433 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:20,040 Speaker 1: battle side by side Yvon. Ian asked Margaret to apologize. 434 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:23,960 Speaker 1: She refused, and soon she received a letter notifying her 435 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 1: that von was suing her for damages. In nineteen fifty nine, 436 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:34,240 Speaker 1: Ian and Margaret took a trip to Australia on ducal duty. There, 437 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 1: Ian discovered the diary that Margaret had kept for the 438 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:42,920 Speaker 1: past three years. Inside were the names of half a 439 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:47,680 Speaker 1: dozen men and a meticulously recorded schedule that showed each 440 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 1: time she had met with them. When Margaret discovered him 441 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:55,320 Speaker 1: with the diary, he accused her of cheating, and she 442 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:59,720 Speaker 1: didn't deny it. How could she really Ian flew home 443 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 1: alone the next day and their marriage was effectively over. 444 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 1: Instead of following her husband back to England, Margaret extended 445 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 1: the trip to New York. Ian took the opportunity to 446 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,280 Speaker 1: go through Margaret's belongings in their home. He hired a 447 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 1: locksmith to break into her cupboards and stole her letters, diaries, 448 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:26,440 Speaker 1: and a Manila folder addressed to her. Inside were some 449 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:31,280 Speaker 1: notes of no consequence and two polaroid photos, which would 450 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 1: go on to become the central scandal that would mar 451 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:38,880 Speaker 1: Margaret's legacy for the rest of her life. The photos 452 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:43,920 Speaker 1: showed Margaret performing oral sex on an unidentified man who 453 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:48,280 Speaker 1: would become something of a folk legend as quote the 454 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:52,640 Speaker 1: Headless Man. Although Margaret's back is to the camera, she 455 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:56,840 Speaker 1: could easily be identified by her signature, pearls and hair style. 456 00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:01,640 Speaker 1: Wrapped around the photographs were sheets of paper reading before 457 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 1: during oh And finished. The polaroids, inflammatory as they were, 458 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,520 Speaker 1: didn't anger Ian as much as another piece of paper 459 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:18,440 Speaker 1: he found. On a sheet of hotel parchment, Margaret had 460 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:23,080 Speaker 1: pasted fragments of words cut out from innocuous letters written 461 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:27,000 Speaker 1: by Louise, Ian's ex wife and the mother of his children. 462 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:32,280 Speaker 1: The excerpts, which included Louise's signature, were arranged into a 463 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:37,280 Speaker 1: fake letter in which she is questioning the paternity of 464 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:41,959 Speaker 1: her and Ian's sons. It seems that Margaret, in an 465 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,840 Speaker 1: attempt to save her status as Duchess, was seeking to 466 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:50,240 Speaker 1: discredit the legitimacy of Ian's sons from his first marriage 467 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,920 Speaker 1: and then have her own child with him. Or rather, 468 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:57,920 Speaker 1: Margaret was trying to fake a pregnancy by patting her 469 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:02,160 Speaker 1: stomach and later pass off a child as Ian's. She 470 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 1: asked a Polish friend to bring her a baby to England. 471 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:11,960 Speaker 1: Don't be stupid, dear, was the friend's response, and Margaret 472 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:17,000 Speaker 1: abandoned the plan, although she kept all of the incriminating evidence. 473 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,840 Speaker 1: This was the final straw for Ian. He wasn't a 474 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:27,800 Speaker 1: particularly involved father, but his wife had crossed a clear line. 475 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:31,000 Speaker 1: Margaret was furious when she returned home to see that 476 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:34,200 Speaker 1: Ian had stolen her possessions, but she had yet to 477 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,600 Speaker 1: realize that he had also discovered her drafts of the 478 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:41,960 Speaker 1: forged letters from Louise. So when Margaret went through with 479 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:46,040 Speaker 1: the plan to quote find these letters and show them 480 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:50,640 Speaker 1: to Ian, it resulted in her second libel suit, this 481 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:56,120 Speaker 1: time from Louise. Ian knew that he had sufficient grounds 482 00:33:56,160 --> 00:34:00,200 Speaker 1: for divorce, but he still needed the smoking gun, the 483 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:04,320 Speaker 1: diary that he had found in Australia. He devised a 484 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:08,440 Speaker 1: plan with his daughter Jean to raid Margaret's house for it. 485 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,120 Speaker 1: At six in the morning, they entered her home using 486 00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:15,279 Speaker 1: a key that Ian had kept. Not having found what 487 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:18,560 Speaker 1: they were looking for in the study, they entered her bedroom, 488 00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:22,680 Speaker 1: where Margaret was still sleeping. The noise woke her, and 489 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:26,480 Speaker 1: when she asked what they wanted, Jean held her down 490 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,440 Speaker 1: to the bed while Ian stole the diary from her 491 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:35,400 Speaker 1: bedside table. The two fled the scene immediately. Ian swiftly 492 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:39,080 Speaker 1: notified Margaret that his divorce petition was sent to the 493 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:42,600 Speaker 1: Court of Session in Edinburgh, and he informed her that 494 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:46,480 Speaker 1: she was now banned from Inveray Castle, which was only 495 00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:50,200 Speaker 1: functioning because of her father's money. She would make sure 496 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:54,080 Speaker 1: that Ian remembered that, and soon she visited with her 497 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:57,040 Speaker 1: father and his new wife, Jane, who he married after 498 00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:02,560 Speaker 1: Helend passing several years earlier. In perhaps the most bizarre 499 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:08,040 Speaker 1: accusation yet. During that trip, Margaret noticed Jane and Ian 500 00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:12,440 Speaker 1: spending time alone together and concluded that they were having 501 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:17,080 Speaker 1: an affair. Margaret's paranoia was no doubt fueled by her 502 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:20,520 Speaker 1: view of Jane as an interloper in her and her 503 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:26,719 Speaker 1: father's relationship. After that trip, Margaret remained persistent in her 504 00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:30,080 Speaker 1: assertion that she had a right to live in Inveraray, 505 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:35,040 Speaker 1: despite her clear distaste for country life, and so Ian 506 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:39,960 Speaker 1: formally acquired an interdict banning her from the castle. Margaret 507 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:43,440 Speaker 1: was given one day to retrieve her belongings and identify 508 00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:46,440 Speaker 1: what was hers, as decreed by the deed of gift 509 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,080 Speaker 1: she and her father had received at the time of 510 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:53,760 Speaker 1: her engagement to Ian. Margaret would soon learn that the deed, 511 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,680 Speaker 1: like much of her early impression of her husband, was 512 00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:02,400 Speaker 1: a facade. Ian had more mortgaged everything on Margaret's deed 513 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:06,000 Speaker 1: in nineteen forty nine, before they had even been married. 514 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:11,919 Speaker 1: Margaret's deed was worthless. In February of nineteen sixty two, 515 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:16,000 Speaker 1: Margaret and Ian arrived at the Edinburgh Court of Session. 516 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:21,120 Speaker 1: The courtroom was packed to capacity, with both British and 517 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:25,040 Speaker 1: foreign press, all eager to see what would become of 518 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:30,239 Speaker 1: the Duke and the quote dirty Duchess. Presiding over the 519 00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:34,160 Speaker 1: case was Lord Wheatley, a judge known for his harsh 520 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:38,160 Speaker 1: sentences for crimes involving sex. He also happened to be 521 00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:41,360 Speaker 1: a member of the Campbell clan on his mother's side. 522 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:46,760 Speaker 1: The trial began with Ian presenting his evidence. Margaret's lawyer 523 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:50,799 Speaker 1: rejected the use of her diary on the grounds of confidentiality, 524 00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:54,800 Speaker 1: but Wheatley approved it and it remained the key piece 525 00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:59,760 Speaker 1: of evidence. Ian was cross examined for five hours. Margaret 526 00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:05,040 Speaker 1: was cross examined for thirteen while Ian ultimately accused her 527 00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:08,600 Speaker 1: of sleeping with eighty eight men. There were three who 528 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:12,640 Speaker 1: were brought into the trial, Baron Sigmund von Braun, a 529 00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:16,440 Speaker 1: former Nazi and then West German ambassador to the UN, 530 00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:22,520 Speaker 1: John Khan, an American businessman, and Peter Combe, the former 531 00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:27,880 Speaker 1: chief press officer at the London Savoy Hotel. Worth noting 532 00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,480 Speaker 1: is that of the eighty eight men that the Duke 533 00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:34,880 Speaker 1: claimed he could list, a number were actually gay. Margaret 534 00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:37,399 Speaker 1: didn't want to out her friends at a time when 535 00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:41,600 Speaker 1: homosexuality was still a criminal offense, and so she didn't 536 00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:45,759 Speaker 1: defend herself against the accusation. Of the three men who 537 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:50,560 Speaker 1: were brought into question, only Combe denied an affair. Margaret 538 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,640 Speaker 1: confessed she had an affair with von Braun, who was married, 539 00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:56,759 Speaker 1: but it had happened before her own marriage to Ian. 540 00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:01,600 Speaker 1: As their letters were not dated, the court couldn't conclude 541 00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:05,319 Speaker 1: that she was lying. The evidence against Kohane was also 542 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:09,800 Speaker 1: too weak to utilize. That left Combe the sole defender 543 00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:13,800 Speaker 1: present in court. He was twelve years younger than Margaret, 544 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,719 Speaker 1: and she knew his mother, so Margaret claimed the relationship 545 00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:21,880 Speaker 1: was strictly platonic. What she didn't know was that Ian 546 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,480 Speaker 1: had hired a private investigator to watch her and the 547 00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:29,400 Speaker 1: investigator had taken photographs of Combe leaving her house in 548 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:33,240 Speaker 1: the early hours of the morning. Margaret argued that Combe 549 00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:36,400 Speaker 1: was helping her to take care of her beloved French poodles, 550 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,960 Speaker 1: but the judge dismissed that claim with the belief that 551 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:44,600 Speaker 1: Margaret would have entrusted that task to servants. Having gone 552 00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:48,719 Speaker 1: through the diaries and the letters, only the polaroids, those 553 00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,600 Speaker 1: pieces of evidence that would follow Margaret for the rest 554 00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:55,840 Speaker 1: of her life remained. Initially, Margaret denied she was the 555 00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:59,640 Speaker 1: one in the photographs, insisting they were from Ian's pornography. 556 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:03,839 Speaker 1: Collect once the court was able to identify that it 557 00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:07,239 Speaker 1: was in fact her due to the specificity of the 558 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:10,839 Speaker 1: necklace and hair, she admitted that, yes, it was her, 559 00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:15,920 Speaker 1: but she claimed the headless man was Ian. This story 560 00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:19,720 Speaker 1: wasn't bought, but to prove that it wasn't him, Ian 561 00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:24,800 Speaker 1: underwent a medical examination. It provided a win in court, 562 00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:29,200 Speaker 1: but a loss in self esteem. As Margaret's biographer put it, 563 00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:33,719 Speaker 1: Ian had to live with the humiliation of publicly declaring 564 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:39,759 Speaker 1: his lesser dimensions. Margaret never revealed the identity of the 565 00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,919 Speaker 1: headless man, but it has been the topic of speculation 566 00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:47,600 Speaker 1: for years. Was he a Hollywood actor politician? The British 567 00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:52,080 Speaker 1: press debated for years. It even prompted a personal investigation 568 00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:55,040 Speaker 1: from the Master of Roles at the time, who came 569 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:58,480 Speaker 1: up with a scheme to compare the handwriting of government 570 00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:02,200 Speaker 1: men he suspected as potential culprits to the handwriting on 571 00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:07,719 Speaker 1: the captions of the polaroid. It was a fruitless attempt. Ultimately, 572 00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,640 Speaker 1: Ian was granted a divorce from Margaret on ground of 573 00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:14,680 Speaker 1: adultery with Peter Combe in May, three months after the 574 00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:19,480 Speaker 1: proceedings began. Margaret was not present when Lord Wheatley read 575 00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:24,479 Speaker 1: his fifty thousand word judgment, a reading that lasted three 576 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:28,799 Speaker 1: hours and ten minutes. Ian was there, though, and he 577 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:33,040 Speaker 1: heard the judge his distant cousin describe his now ex 578 00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:37,160 Speaker 1: wife as quote a highly sexed woman who had ceased 579 00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:40,960 Speaker 1: to be satisfied with normal relations and had started to 580 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:45,759 Speaker 1: indulge in what I can only describe as disgusting sexual 581 00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:52,000 Speaker 1: activities to gratify a basic sexual appetite. Years later, in 582 00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:56,680 Speaker 1: a rare interview, Margaret would reflect on Wheatley's judgment quote, 583 00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:00,359 Speaker 1: I thought he was such a bastard. You don't tack 584 00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:05,080 Speaker 1: if you're a judge, you judge, she said, mimicking balancing scales. 585 00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:10,680 Speaker 1: It was the longest and costliest divorce Britain had ever 586 00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:15,040 Speaker 1: seen up until that point. Margaret was ordered to pay 587 00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:19,560 Speaker 1: seven eighths of the cost. Ian paid just one eighth, 588 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:24,000 Speaker 1: seeing as that was all he could afford. Ian's own 589 00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:27,800 Speaker 1: adultery was of little concern to Wheatley or the public 590 00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:31,840 Speaker 1: at large. Margaret was given all sorts of nicknames in 591 00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:38,560 Speaker 1: the press, all crude and none particularly clever. Quote dirty duchess, 592 00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:43,920 Speaker 1: blow job duchess, filatio duchess. Some of the headlines at 593 00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:48,399 Speaker 1: the time read such dirty linen in high places or 594 00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:52,960 Speaker 1: She's a poisonous liar. Margaret was one of the earliest 595 00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:58,279 Speaker 1: targets of the British presses relentless vitriolic fixation on a 596 00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:01,680 Speaker 1: noble woman, a relationship from the British press that we've 597 00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:05,160 Speaker 1: seen in more recent years with women like Diana, Princess 598 00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:12,680 Speaker 1: of Wales and Megan Markle. Calling Margaret a liar wasn't untrue. 599 00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,800 Speaker 1: She had lied to Ian, and she had lied in court, 600 00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:21,200 Speaker 1: but the press went steps beyond steps too far. Later 601 00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:24,840 Speaker 1: in life, Margaret, who had been a tabloid star since seventeen, 602 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:29,040 Speaker 1: reflected that she had seen a drastic shift in the 603 00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:33,800 Speaker 1: tabloid press's level of professionalism and their treatment of celebrities. 604 00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:41,040 Speaker 1: In a very British statement, she remarked, they've become very unkind. 605 00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:45,600 Speaker 1: To put it quite mildly. Just three weeks after the 606 00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:50,200 Speaker 1: divorce was finalized, Ian married an American heiress with whom 607 00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,480 Speaker 1: he had been having an affair for the past two years. 608 00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:56,920 Speaker 1: He and the heiress remained together until his death in 609 00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:01,280 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three. Over the course of the years following 610 00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:04,719 Speaker 1: the divorce, Ian sold the right to publish his and 611 00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:09,360 Speaker 1: Margaret's private letters. His thirst for revenge, even after he 612 00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:12,200 Speaker 1: had won in court, would come back to bite him. 613 00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:16,200 Speaker 1: His beloved Club Whites, where he had once went to 614 00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:22,080 Speaker 1: quote escape Margaret, voted him out on grounds of poor conduct. 615 00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:26,680 Speaker 1: As for Margaret, she never remarried, but she continued to 616 00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:30,879 Speaker 1: live her life as she always had. This included more men, 617 00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:36,840 Speaker 1: more scandals, more legal conflicts, and more poodles. It's possible 618 00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:40,080 Speaker 1: the poodles were maybe the truest loves of her life. 619 00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:44,200 Speaker 1: When she eventually began to run out of money, she 620 00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:48,080 Speaker 1: opened her London home up for tours. She was later 621 00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:51,359 Speaker 1: forced to move into a suite in a hotel, and 622 00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:54,360 Speaker 1: when she couldn't pay that rent, she moved into a 623 00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:58,439 Speaker 1: nursing home, where she ultimately passed in nineteen ninety three. 624 00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:02,880 Speaker 1: She was eighty one years old. Two years later, an 625 00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:08,200 Speaker 1: opera based on her life and divorce, titled Powder Her Face, premiered. 626 00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,960 Speaker 1: To sum up his work, the composer Thomas A. Day 627 00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:22,560 Speaker 1: quoted the phrase, even horrible people are tragic. That's the 628 00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:26,000 Speaker 1: story of the Duchess of Argyle. But stick around to 629 00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:51,320 Speaker 1: hear Margaret in her own words. So much of Noble 630 00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:55,400 Speaker 1: Blood is me attempting to create portrayals of historical figures 631 00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:59,840 Speaker 1: that are nuanced and empathetic, but not fawning. I always 632 00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,680 Speaker 1: try to frame a story to be true to the 633 00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:07,319 Speaker 1: fundamental humanity of the people involved. No one is all 634 00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:11,440 Speaker 1: good or all bad. Everyone is products of their environment 635 00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:16,840 Speaker 1: and experiences. But because this is a history podcast, often 636 00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:22,560 Speaker 1: we're constructing our versions of figures from history from multiple sources. Sometimes, 637 00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,640 Speaker 1: if we're lucky, we get their own writing, but usually 638 00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:29,279 Speaker 1: it's from the writing of other people around them. My 639 00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:32,319 Speaker 1: goal with this podcast is always to give voice to 640 00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:35,680 Speaker 1: people from the past. Who maybe we never thought about 641 00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:39,520 Speaker 1: in nuanced terms. In the case of the Duchess of Argyle, 642 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:44,880 Speaker 1: we are afforded a rare gift her actual voice. Thanks 643 00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:48,760 Speaker 1: to the BBC Archives, you can hear the Duchess actually 644 00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:53,600 Speaker 1: speaking about her own life and for scandalous divorce. I'm 645 00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:56,799 Speaker 1: linking a video in the episode description and I think 646 00:45:56,840 --> 00:46:00,160 Speaker 1: it's well worth a listen to try to understand one 647 00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:04,239 Speaker 1: of the most impossibly complicated women in history in her 648 00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:21,000 Speaker 1: own words. Noble Blood is a production of iHeart Radio 649 00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:24,480 Speaker 1: and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Mankey. Noble Blood is 650 00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:28,920 Speaker 1: hosted by me Danashworts. 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