Picture No | 12698984 |
Date | 1932 |
Description | The future Lady Warwick, Miss Margaret Whigham |
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Margaret Whigham, later Mrs Charles Sweeny, and then the Duchess of Argyll, pictured in The Tatler at the time of her engagement to the Earl of Warwick. The most popular debutante of her day, the press enthused about the engagement, but Margaret broke it off just a few weeks before the wedding. She went on to marry Charles Sweeny in 1933 in the society wedding of the year, and then, as her second husband, the Duke of Argyll, who divorced her in 1963 in a case that scandalised the country. The Earl of Warwick went on to marry Rose Bingham, another popular and pretty deb.
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Source | Photograph by Bassano in 'The Tatler', 9 March 1932, page 385 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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