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Picture No 10643615
Date 1939
Description Mrs Charles Sweeny
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Mrs Charles Sweeny, formerly Miss Margaret Whigham and later the Duchess of Argyll (1912 - 1993), photographed wearing a tiny hat with a huge tuft of soft ostrich feathers and worn tilted over one eye. 'To complete the effect of winter chic she holds a silver muff up under her chin.' Margaret was the darling of the media and a society 'beauty'. After being 'Deb of the Year' in her coming out of 1930, her marriage to American golfer, Charles Sweeny in 1933 cemented her popularity. Her divorce from her second husband, Ian, 11th Duke of Argyll and the accompanying court case scandalised Britain and plunged the Duchess into penury.
Source Photograph by Lenare in 'The Sketch', 8 February 1939, page 246
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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