Margaret Argyll, The Duchess Who Dared
Castle, Charles. The Duchess Who Dared, The Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll. First Edition. 1994. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition.
There are two lessons to be learned from this breezy biography. The first is not to leave tucked away in a desk a Polaroid of oneself naked but for a strand of pearls cavorting with a “headless” man not one’s husband. The second is not to fire the man hired to ghostwrite one’s memoirs, as Margaret did with this author. After he landed a hefty advance for her, she double-crossed him, removing him from the deal. With the advance he helped her obtain, she wrote her memoir, Forget Not. However, he also forgot not. He used his taped interviews with Margaret as the basis for this book, considerably franker than her own.
“Although Margaret’s second marriage, to the Duke of Argyll, lasted only ten years, her divorce from him was the longest, costliest and most scandalous in British divorce history.”
--Charles Castle