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    Marg of Arg was a real star

    Jan 12, 2022 5 minutes

    So Marg of Arg is back in the news, nearly three decades after her death, thanks to the BBC’s treating us, over three nights at the peak Christmas viewing period, to A Very British Scandal.

    And what a scandal it was: the longest, costliest and nastiest divorce in Scottish legal history – a trauma Margaret never got over.

    She could not see it, but she remained shell-shocked by the whole thing. Not the least of it was the unjust outcome. Lord Wheatley found against her on a technicality, ruling that because she had had the opportunity to commit adultery, he would assume that she had done so.

    It is no secret that Margaret and I were great friends. We were what is now called trauma-bonded, through the experience of being married to father and son: the Duke of Argyll – aka Big Ian – and Lord

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