1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:02,100 _ 2 00:00:02,256 --> 00:00:04,656 _ 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,416 Are you going to tell your father about money? 4 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:10,056 Congratulations, George! 5 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:12,416 Daddy is a sly old dog. 6 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:14,176 Your new stepmother's younger than you. 7 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:17,736 Please, don't ask me to bail Ian out again. 8 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:20,416 I'll not throw good money after bad. 9 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:23,576 What is the point of you?! What are you for?! 10 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:25,696 - You are? - Peter Combe. 11 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:28,856 What's on the menu tonight? Drinking or dancing? 12 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:29,936 Both. 13 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:32,216 - What is it? - It's Louise's handwriting. 14 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:34,376 It's a crank. You're not to brood on it. 15 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:36,976 I've never stayed at L'Hotel Saint Mariette. 16 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:38,296 I've never even heard of it. 17 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:41,296 I think we can make it work between us. 18 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:44,776 But we have to stop doing terrible things to each other. 19 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,456 What terrible things have you done? 20 00:00:47,480 --> 00:00:49,680 Nothing, just... 21 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:52,400 We'll be all right. 22 00:01:09,960 --> 00:01:12,056 Ugh. 23 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:14,096 He's here. 24 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,176 What? 25 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,440 - Where is he? - In the drawing room. 26 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,576 You and your disappearing acts. 27 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:34,320 My God, how beautiful you are. 28 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:42,600 You love me. 29 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:46,776 I must do, mustn't I? 30 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:50,056 And you want this marriage to work? 31 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,656 We both want this marriage to work, Ian, we agreed to that. 32 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:56,400 Then there are certain particular assurances I need. 33 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:01,000 What are they? 34 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:04,880 My God, it's ridiculous really. 35 00:02:19,640 --> 00:02:21,920 I know it was you. 36 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:25,560 I knew it. 37 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:36,840 I know you forged those letters. 38 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:41,016 What? 39 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,016 Louise swore on our son's lives. 40 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:44,816 Well, then you're a fool, Ian. 41 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:45,976 You're a poor fool. 42 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,976 - Of course she swore! - She swore, and I believed you. 43 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,736 And the only person it could possibly be is me, of course it is. 44 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:53,056 I'm the culprit, of course I am. 45 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:54,656 - Margaret, you will go to court... - No! 46 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:56,336 And you will submit to an injunction 47 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:59,856 that forbids you forever talking about my sons or their mother again. 48 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:01,936 I won't go to court, and I won't submit to anything! 49 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:04,696 - Yes, you are. You will. - No, I won't! 50 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:06,656 Of all the things you've ever done to me, Ian, 51 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:08,216 this has to be the absolute worst! 52 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:10,576 I cannot believe you believe this about me. 53 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:11,960 I want you to leave. 54 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:23,536 But you will submit to that injunction. 55 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:25,120 I've got the proof. 56 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:10,040 Dora! 57 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:50,000 *CREDITS* 58 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:53,640 The date for the hearing has been set. 59 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,976 This goes against all our advice. 60 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,336 If you submit to this injunction, 61 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:03,616 it is an admission of liability. 62 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:06,696 Mr Jauncey, I know that I pay you for your advice, 63 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,536 but the Duke requires me to do this, 64 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:11,040 so I will do it. 65 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:18,736 You're not going to like it. 66 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:19,800 What is it? 67 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:25,120 - Shall I tell Cheeseman to bring the... - Yes! 68 00:05:29,840 --> 00:05:32,336 Ugh! 69 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:33,360 Ah! 70 00:05:33,470 --> 00:05:36,670 _ 71 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:59,896 What are you doing, Ian? I did what you asked. 72 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:03,640 I've had you banned from Inveraray and its environs. 73 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:10,600 Over here is environs. 74 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:13,376 Over there's the whole rest of the world, 75 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:14,760 you stay in the rest of the world, 76 00:06:14,784 --> 00:06:17,216 and you won't be in breach of the law. 77 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:18,616 You've breached the law. 78 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,056 You broke into my home, and you stole private property. 79 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:24,256 As your husband, I have every right to enter our shared domicile. 80 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:28,136 And I have every right to enter the castle that I bloody well paid for! 81 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:29,520 No, you don't. 82 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:33,000 I had you banned. 83 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:38,616 Please, Margaret, if you're concerned for the whereabouts 84 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:41,816 of certain private properties, 85 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:44,576 just give a description of said items 86 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:46,120 to that friendly bobby there. 87 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:51,160 No? 88 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:54,560 Don't want to talk to the nice policeman? 89 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:58,736 We had a deal, Ian. 90 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:01,336 - Caveat emptor, darling. - I have children. 91 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:02,480 So do I. 92 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:10,960 What do you want? 93 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:18,840 I want peace and quiet. 94 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:26,616 I want... time to think. 95 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:28,600 I believe I'm owed that. 96 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:45,360 When do I get my things back? 97 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:50,640 Let's talk when I'm ready. Yep? 98 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:54,920 Oh, and, um... 99 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:01,336 everything's locked away from prying eyes, 100 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:03,856 so you can stop sweating about that, 101 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:05,560 at least for the time being. 102 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,720 I'm only showing you this because you're my barrister. 103 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,496 Is this you? 104 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:54,696 Of course it's not bloody me, 105 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,576 I wouldn't be showing it to you if it were me. 106 00:08:57,600 --> 00:08:59,136 It is her. 107 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:02,536 She does photograph well, doesn't she? 108 00:09:02,560 --> 00:09:04,256 So, there we are. 109 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:07,656 Divorce on the basis of multiple adulteries, cut and dry. 110 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:09,936 Actually, no. 111 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:12,576 I'm afraid you need more. 112 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:14,560 What the hell are you talking about? 113 00:09:14,585 --> 00:09:16,256 How could I possibly need more? 114 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:18,176 I brought you all of this. 115 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:19,736 You have a photograph for god's sake, 116 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:23,656 you have love letters, you have a diary full of men, 117 00:09:23,680 --> 00:09:25,656 and then there's the V. 118 00:09:25,680 --> 00:09:27,136 You know what that is? 119 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:28,576 That's her sign. 120 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:31,376 That's her bare-forked animal legs open 121 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:32,776 for her legion of lovers. 122 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:36,696 "V", I mean, it's everywhere. You say I need more. 123 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:40,816 The letters, the diaries, the, uh... image, 124 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:42,616 they're not recent. 125 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:43,936 You continued living with her, 126 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:47,936 presumably enjoying... conjugal relations. 127 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:51,096 Only when I couldn't fight her off. She's like a wolf, 128 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:53,416 hold you down and strip the meat from your bones. 129 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:57,016 But the law can therefore decide that you condoned her behaviour. 130 00:09:57,040 --> 00:09:58,776 We need to prove that she was adulterous 131 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:01,816 and continued to be so after you'd separated. 132 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:04,336 Spit it out, Emslie, I'm getting old and dying here. 133 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:05,696 What do we need? 134 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:08,216 We need evidence that she's still at it. 135 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:10,320 We need the diary she uses now. 136 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:32,040 - Papa. - Shh, shh. 137 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:54,256 Where will it be? 138 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:55,800 - By her bed. - By her bed? 139 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:58,440 Papa, I don't want to. 140 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:02,936 Come on. 141 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:04,800 Jeanne, this is going to be fun. 142 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:08,696 We're like cat burglars. 143 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:10,440 Raffles the Gentleman Thief. 144 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:17,016 Ah! Get it! 145 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:18,456 - I don't know where it is! - Get it! 146 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:19,816 I don't know where it is! 147 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:22,336 In the bedside table! Middle drawer, look in middle drawer! 148 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:24,056 Ah! 149 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:25,496 - Stop it! - I've got it. - Stop it. 150 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:26,657 - I've got it. - Sure? 151 00:11:26,682 --> 00:11:27,944 Yes, I've got it! 152 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:32,320 Ian! 153 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:47,240 Ian! 154 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:50,376 Ian! Stop! 155 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:51,600 Oh! 156 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:55,720 Ian! 157 00:11:58,560 --> 00:11:59,760 Ian! 158 00:12:17,100 --> 00:12:21,200 _ 159 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:25,056 My Lord, I present Ian Campbell, the Duke of Argyll's, 160 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:27,976 petition for divorce from Margaret, Duchess of Argyll 161 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,336 on the ground of her multiple adulteries. 162 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:32,256 The Duke, the pursuer in this case, 163 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:34,416 is fully aware that a petition brought 164 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:36,856 by the husband against his wife is unusual, 165 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:40,096 but the evidence we will present at a date given by the court 166 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:41,566 is unequivocal, 167 00:12:41,591 --> 00:12:44,335 highly intimate and, frankly... 168 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:45,952 utterly damning. 169 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:54,016 - You all right? - Mm. 170 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,456 There are reporters outside the house. 171 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:58,976 They come in the garden, knock on the windows, 172 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:00,856 shout through the door, 173 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:02,976 questions about you, 174 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,776 about you and men. 175 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:06,536 They're lies, Daddy. 176 00:13:06,560 --> 00:13:08,696 It's all lies, Ian's lies. 177 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:12,416 He's trying to turn everyone against me. 178 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:15,136 That Judge Wheatley, who banned me from Inveraray, 179 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:17,616 I've heard that he's a member of Clan Campbell. 180 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:19,456 That's the same clan as Ian, Daddy. 181 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:21,376 But nobody reports on that, do they? 182 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:22,936 But how can that be allowed? 183 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,616 His doctor, Petro, saying that I'm mad. 184 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:27,816 There are things that I could say about him too, Daddy 185 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:31,696 but I don't, but he just makes it all about me, my fault. 186 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:34,376 I'm getting too old for this. 187 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:37,736 You have to warn me, warn us. 188 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:40,616 I don't want to learn it from the newspaper 189 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:45,496 or have some pimply youth scream at me over the garden wall. 190 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:48,896 What does Ian have? 191 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:51,696 Nothing... 192 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,936 Nothing, Daddy, I promise you. 193 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:56,680 Bloody man. 194 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:03,376 I got collateral for you from Ian, 195 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:05,698 so if anything were to happen, 196 00:14:05,723 --> 00:14:08,456 you wouldn't be left empty-handed. 197 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:12,016 This is a deed of gift from him to you, 198 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:14,016 paintings, silver, antiques, 199 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:18,296 Argyll heirlooms inherited with the title, with the castle. 200 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:20,176 All valued. 201 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:22,856 But I'm not allowed to go back to the castle. 202 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:25,960 You've a right to remove what's yours. 203 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:31,160 Would you excise me for a moment? 204 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:51,320 He looks so tired. 205 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:55,800 You exhaust him, the mess you make. 206 00:14:58,320 --> 00:14:59,760 The mess that I make? 207 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:05,200 Well, nobody else makes it, do they? 208 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:12,880 Well, I think it's clear whose side you're on, isn't it, Jane? 209 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,096 It is entirely reasonable that the Duchess 210 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:40,896 be granted access to Inveraray Castle. 211 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:43,736 She must be allowed to identify articles she claims 212 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:45,120 as personal possessions. 213 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:52,120 I'll allow a day, dawn till dusk. 214 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,560 It's dawn. Let's go. 215 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:25,576 Hello, Satan. 216 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:27,096 You fucker, Ian. 217 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:28,296 What? 218 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:30,576 I'm going to chop your fucking hands off! 219 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:32,696 Jesus, fucking hell. 220 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:34,656 You think I'm unhinged? I'll show you unhinged, 221 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:38,696 you fucking piece of absolute shit! 222 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:41,296 I'm sorry! Ah! 223 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:43,936 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 224 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:45,040 Ah! 225 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:49,816 That's definitely mine. That's mine. 226 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:52,456 That bedraggled thing, I'll cheerfully leave behind. 227 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:53,656 Oh, my charming wife. 228 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:55,576 That reminds me, I must move my bowels. 229 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:57,576 I want all of my clothes, Dora, everything, 230 00:16:57,600 --> 00:16:59,656 and if he tries to stop you, kick him. 231 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:00,816 That's mine. 232 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:03,216 Shouldn't you have brought a van? 233 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:06,376 I don't remove things, Ian. I pay for people to remove things. 234 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:07,696 They'll be coming later. 235 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:09,216 Keep up please, Mr Jauncey. 236 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:11,288 So I'm going to have to put up with 237 00:17:11,313 --> 00:17:13,336 your burly labourers as well, am I? 238 00:17:13,360 --> 00:17:16,120 Oh, wonderful clipboard, very debonair. 239 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:23,136 Both of those are mine, each of those. 240 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:25,256 Those are mine. That's mine. 241 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,000 - And that tray there, mine. - Right. 242 00:17:46,120 --> 00:17:48,136 That furniture's mine. 243 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:49,976 Those are mine, those blue ones. 244 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,677 That picture is... me, it's mine. 245 00:17:52,702 --> 00:17:54,016 Yes, of course. 246 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:56,456 Those two, that stag. That table. 247 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:58,256 No, in fact those boxes are mine. 248 00:17:58,280 --> 00:17:59,456 That dog bed's mine. 249 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:02,736 The desk is mine. You know the desk is mine. 250 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:04,120 Ashtray's mine. 251 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:07,800 Ma'am, we should be thinking about leaving. 252 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:12,160 Dawn till dusk the judge said. It's not dusk. 253 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:17,256 Um... 254 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:19,480 I'm never going to be allowed here again. 255 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:24,560 Just let me sit here. 256 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:26,960 Please. 257 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,320 Let me sit here. 258 00:19:57,040 --> 00:19:59,256 What is it? 259 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:02,016 Your Grace, Malcolm Kerr, 260 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:04,656 Chair of the Board of Trustees to the Argyll Estate. 261 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:05,936 Yes, I know who you are. 262 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:07,176 Your Grace... 263 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:11,416 Everything in there is mine, gifted to me by the Duke. 264 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:14,936 But your husband had already used all these heirlooms 265 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:16,936 to secure a personal loan. 266 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:18,616 Yes. 267 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:19,936 To my father. 268 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:22,616 No, to another lender. 269 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,456 This was before the Duke inherited, 270 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:28,440 while he was still with his previous wife. 271 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:35,656 Sorry, I don't understand what he's saying. 272 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:38,896 He signed that to my father, it's his signature. 273 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:44,096 Yes, I thought you said your father had taken legal advice on this? 274 00:20:44,120 --> 00:20:47,656 Your Grace, what we are trying to say is 275 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:53,696 that your husband cannot use these heirlooms to secure collateral 276 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:56,696 for a personal loan from your father 277 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:01,496 when they've already been accepted as collateral from another lender. 278 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:03,960 This Deed of Gift is entirely meaningless. 279 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:12,680 It's, um, it's dusk. 280 00:21:15,360 --> 00:21:17,456 We have to go. 281 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:19,096 Now. 282 00:21:19,120 --> 00:21:21,640 We can plan our next move back in London. 283 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:55,496 Thank you gentlemen, thank you. 284 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:57,856 I have been instructed by the Duchess 285 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,936 to file her counter petition against the Duke 286 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:04,176 for divorce on the grounds of his adultery. 287 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,056 Who with? 288 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,056 Who's the other woman? 289 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:10,736 Margaret, who, was it? 290 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:12,136 It's my step-mother. 291 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,160 - What?! - Blimey! 292 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,936 There will be no, uh, further comments at this stage. 293 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:26,560 Thank you, gentlemen. 294 00:22:28,500 --> 00:22:31,000 _ 295 00:22:44,524 --> 00:22:47,524 _ 296 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,256 George, are you out of your mind? 297 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,296 None of it's true. None of it! 298 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:06,016 He doesn't need you any more. 299 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:09,096 You'd say anything to get him all to yourself, wouldn't you? 300 00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:10,816 You'd say absolutely anything. 301 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:12,656 Jane. 302 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:14,080 You know what you did. 303 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:27,256 You have a witness to your husband's adultery with your stepmother? 304 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,416 Yes, of course. They're abroad at the moment. 305 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,856 They're difficult to reach. 306 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:35,816 It would be useful to speak to them sooner rather than later. 307 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,736 Mm-hm, of course. 308 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,784 Your husband has cited Peter Combe 309 00:23:41,809 --> 00:23:44,376 as one of the correspondents. 310 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:45,976 Peter's a friend, a good friend. 311 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,816 There's never been anything of that nature between us. 312 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:52,016 And the other names? 313 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:56,456 Mr Fraser, I dine with men. 314 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,016 I meet men, I converse with men. 315 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:00,576 It doesn't follow that I have affairs 316 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:02,616 with every single man that I meet. 317 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,456 There are only so many hours in a day. 318 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:06,600 And the image? 319 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:11,296 The gentleman in the polaroid photographs? Who is he? 320 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,336 You're sure that nothing that is said in court 321 00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:15,456 can be reported by the newspapers? 322 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,896 Divorce is a private matter between individuals. 323 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:22,576 There's no public interest in the painful dissolution of a marriage. 324 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,096 Obviously press interest will be high. 325 00:24:25,120 --> 00:24:26,216 Mm. 326 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:27,616 Because my father is very unwell, 327 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,536 and my children have their own lives and I don't want to cause anybody... 328 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:32,896 The details of the case and individual testimonies 329 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:36,296 cannot be reported, at least not in the British press. 330 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:37,736 They can report the judgment, 331 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,320 though that's usually very dry. 332 00:24:42,120 --> 00:24:45,416 Not fodder for the front pages. 333 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:47,896 He doesn't get to divorce me. 334 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:52,496 I get to divorce him for cruelty... 335 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:54,936 neglect... 336 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,040 well, for basically being himself. 337 00:24:59,920 --> 00:25:01,456 This could go my way, couldn't it? 338 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:04,416 There's a real chance this could go my way. 339 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:05,816 He's stolen my private property. 340 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:08,336 He shouldn't be allowed to use that against me. 341 00:25:08,360 --> 00:25:11,856 As evidence, the diaries and letters are easily contested. 342 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,096 Even the polaroid photographs of the gentleman alone 343 00:25:14,120 --> 00:25:16,456 are not evidence of your adultery. 344 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:20,202 However there is the irrefutable fact of the gentleman... 345 00:25:21,027 --> 00:25:22,576 with you... 346 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:24,480 in your bathroom. 347 00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:35,960 Yes, but the gentleman in the photograph is my husband... 348 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:39,080 the Duke of Argyll. 349 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:46,936 He'll have to be examined to prove he's not the man. 350 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,816 Oh, no. How terrible for him. 351 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:52,216 Help! I need help! 352 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,016 Daddy! 353 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,896 Call Dr Griffiths! Oh, Daddy. 354 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,736 It's nothing. It's just a wee tumble, and my legs went, 355 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:01,096 that's all. 356 00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:03,800 It's all right. It's all right. 357 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,736 I'm so sorry, Margaret. 358 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,160 I'll come and see him later. 359 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:39,440 Hello, Margaret. 360 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,416 Poor George. 361 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,536 I always liked him. 362 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,416 Lovely service. 363 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:03,840 Gorgeous hymns. 364 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:09,496 I stayed at the back, I... I didn't want to intrude. 365 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,896 You're introducing now, Maureen. 366 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,520 It's not the best timing, but this just won't wait. 367 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,616 You have to stop this ridiculous charade with Ian, 368 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,056 that's my advice as a friend, 369 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:25,336 and if you've an ounce of sense, you'll take it. 370 00:28:25,360 --> 00:28:27,816 I thought all my friends had deserted me. 371 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:29,000 Do you blame them? 372 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:33,296 The show that you're making of yourself, my dear, I could weep. 373 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:34,576 Didn't know you cared. 374 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,296 I don't. 375 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,416 But it's not just your yawning fanny being shown to the world, 376 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,176 it's all of ours, isn't it? 377 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,256 Plastered all over the papers, 378 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:46,856 being thumbed by every shop girl and grocer. 379 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,616 All nudge, nudge, wink, wink and sniggering speculation 380 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,336 about our class. 381 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:52,976 You're breaking the rules. 382 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:54,896 Our private lives stay behind closed doors. 383 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:56,896 It's why the little people in their grubby pits 384 00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:58,456 look up to us because we are not them, 385 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,776 but you are dragging us down so we look just like them, 386 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,576 all bare arses and flapping cocks. 387 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:05,360 Perhaps we should be dragged down. 388 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,016 You are going to give Ian what he wants. 389 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:11,440 Give him everything. 390 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:14,176 You think you're friendless now, 391 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,416 your life will be a howling wasteland if you don't stop, 392 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:17,560 so stop. 393 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:23,920 I fell 40 feet down a lift shaft. 394 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,280 I thought I was going to die. 395 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,440 I thought I was going to be crushed to death. 396 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:38,280 But I didn't die. 397 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,376 Then I was told I'd never walk again, 398 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:45,616 but I walked. 399 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,656 So don't tell me what to do, Maureen, 400 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:54,576 because I won't be told, not by you, or Ian, or anyone. 401 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,480 You are a Duchess. 402 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:03,600 There are photographs of you with a man's erect penis in your mouth. 403 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,336 Did you think it was a secret? 404 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:10,536 Never mind what the scandal's doing to you, 405 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,696 consider what it's doing to us. 406 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,376 Floodgates open, nothing sacred. 407 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,456 You won't be forgiven Margaret. 408 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,056 We will close ranks and we have ranks to close. 409 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,520 You dear, do not. 410 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,256 Oh, Christ, she doesn't half choose her movements, doesn't she? 411 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,000 Bloody freezing out there. 412 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,240 Oh, Margaret. 413 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:46,000 I'm sorry. 414 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,480 - Let's get drunk, shall we? - Hey? 415 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,736 ? Mm-mm-mm-mm 416 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:00,776 ? Little bitty pretty one 417 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,496 ? Come on and talk-a to me 418 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,856 ? Lovey-dovey lovey one 419 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:07,880 ? Come sit down on my knee 420 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:13,080 ? Whoa-oh, oh-oh, oh. ? 421 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,080 You know about the photograph, don't you? 422 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,600 You don't look very surprised or shocked. 423 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:26,196 You know how the rumour mill works. 424 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:28,858 People are betting on who they think it is 425 00:31:29,283 --> 00:31:31,152 and who you're protecting. 426 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:33,816 I'm not telling you. 427 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:35,000 I'm not asking. 428 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,240 You should know me better than that. 429 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:52,520 One tiny moment, a click of a camera. 430 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:56,976 That's what's on trial, really. 431 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,816 It's not a trial, Margaret. 432 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,776 But I got on my knees and enjoyed it. 433 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:03,680 It is a trial. 434 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,356 And I have to be sorry, cos the law 435 00:32:07,381 --> 00:32:09,696 doesn't like women who aren't sorry. 436 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:10,880 Then pretend. 437 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:16,416 Ian's pretending he's a sad and wronged noble husband. 438 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:19,016 You could pretend to be good and nice. 439 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:20,856 I'll have to school my face in remorse. 440 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:22,336 Go on. 441 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:23,600 Let's see it. 442 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,280 - Yes, that might need some work. - Mm. 443 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:44,040 Do you still love him? 444 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:51,240 Does he still love you? 445 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,440 Do you think he wants us to go? 446 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,076 Nightcap at mine. 447 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,876 I'm sorry for dragging you into all this, darling, I really am. 448 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,416 I'm grown up. 449 00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,216 I can look after myself, remember? 450 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:16,600 Mm. 451 00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:19,656 Thank you for being my friend. 452 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,896 Hey, don't be soft. 453 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:23,520 Always. 454 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,880 - Bye, darling. - Bye. Love you! 455 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,536 Public hair is fascinating. 456 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,296 Idiosyncratic as a fingerprint. 457 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,616 I can tell my regular clients apart by a mere clump 458 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,256 of the downstairs fuzz. 459 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:56,960 The photograph, if you please. 460 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:04,216 Mm. 461 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,736 It's not that clear, is it? 462 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:07,840 Come. 463 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:13,736 What the fuck are you doing here? 464 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,576 We are obliged to be present in all matters 465 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:20,256 pertaining to our client's defense. 466 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:21,920 Oh, Jesus Christ. 467 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:29,416 Well, then, Your Grace. 468 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,320 Release the beast. 469 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:37,096 Do you see now, you see? 470 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,200 That's why I call her Satan. 471 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,080 I want you to tear her to shreds. 472 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:48,496 Apologies. 473 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:50,096 A little tangle. 474 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:52,976 Sir, I want to remind you that the evidence for your case 475 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,896 is circumstantial and flimsy at best 476 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,336 and excessively punitive and spiteful at worst. 477 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,456 Your wife has endured a lot during your marriage, 478 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,576 and I'm confident that the way will be far kinder 479 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:04,736 to her than you've been. 480 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,816 Well, that all depends on the view of the judge. 481 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,440 Your wife's in pain, Your Grace. 482 00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:34,696 Yes? 483 00:35:34,720 --> 00:35:36,896 It's me. 484 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,520 Sorry to hear about your father. He was a good man. 485 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:49,176 I've seen you look better, Margaret. 486 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,736 Rode hard, put away wet. 487 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:53,376 That's how you look. 488 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:54,680 What'd you want, Ian? 489 00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:01,696 I thought you and I should have a civil conversation. 490 00:36:01,720 --> 00:36:05,016 As fun as all this has been, it's gone far enough. 491 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:06,776 Fun? 492 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,160 God. 493 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:12,360 Do you know I think you died in that prisoner of war camp? 494 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:15,200 You died... 495 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:20,160 and this is just a corpse that you drag around. 496 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,200 Because you don't feel anything at all, do you? 497 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:32,640 No. 498 00:36:36,720 --> 00:36:38,936 I don't know if it's the war but you're right, 499 00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:42,040 I don't feel anything, really. I never have. 500 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:45,800 This... 501 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:51,376 this battle between you and I... 502 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:53,240 makes the blood bang. 503 00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,320 It's the closest I ever got to feeling alive. 504 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:01,920 Sir. 505 00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:16,840 You cheated my father, Ian. 506 00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,776 He trusted you, and you cheated him. 507 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:26,096 He wanted you to be a Duchess. You're a Duchess. 508 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,536 Couldn't see anything beyond that. 509 00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:32,976 All you ever wanted was his money, my money, 510 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,816 and now you've spent it all, and you need another rich wife. 511 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,136 I expect you've already got one lined up. 512 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:40,880 That's what this is really about. 513 00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:46,200 Maybe. 514 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:52,616 But for the public, this will always be about your innumerable, 515 00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,160 flagrant infidelities. 516 00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:57,896 Who's the chap in the photograph by the way? 517 00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:00,216 I'd like to buy him a drink and congratulate him on the... 518 00:38:00,240 --> 00:38:01,656 You were never faithful to me, Ian, 519 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:03,976 so let's not pretend that's who we are. 520 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,336 Who were my mistresses? 521 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:07,480 Jane, for one. 522 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:11,600 Can you prove it? 523 00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:19,096 Do you have love letters, diaries, a photograph? 524 00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:20,600 Because I do. 525 00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:27,256 Here's the situation as I see it, 526 00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:29,336 my case can be heard by a judge, 527 00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:32,896 at which point details I think you would prefer to remain private 528 00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,296 will become a matter of legal record. 529 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:36,936 Or? 530 00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:40,536 Pay me £250,000, clear my debts, 531 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,736 pay my lawyers, and agree to be divorced for adultery, 532 00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:46,176 and then all of this unpleasantness just goes away. 533 00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:48,736 You want to shame me into submission? 534 00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:49,880 Yes. 535 00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:56,136 But at least it will be all over. 536 00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:57,880 But it won't be over, will it, Ian? 537 00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,976 Because there'll just be something else, 538 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:05,636 then something else, 539 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,596 and you'll hold it over me forever. 540 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,840 I think that that's a risk you'll have to take. 541 00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,200 Well? 542 00:39:31,240 --> 00:39:32,960 See you in court. 543 00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,200 _ 544 00:39:54,720 --> 00:39:56,136 How can it be Judge Wheatley again? 545 00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,696 Let's forget Wheatley for one second, you have bigger issues. 546 00:39:58,720 --> 00:40:00,576 - The photograph of you and Peter Combe... - God. 547 00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:02,816 I should've known that Ian would have me watched. 548 00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:05,016 You said there was nothing between you and Mr Combe. 549 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:07,096 And there isn't. Peter will swear to it. 550 00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:09,496 How is Ian allowed to spy on me like that? 551 00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:13,096 All parties in Argyll versus Argyll. All parties. 552 00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:16,096 You have to drop the counter-claim against him. 553 00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:17,976 We have no evidence about your step-mother. 554 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,296 I know that Jane and Ian had an affair. 555 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,296 Without evidence, it's just speculation. 556 00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,867 You have to drop it. You have to. 557 00:40:25,892 --> 00:40:27,464 Before we start. 558 00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:49,480 Court rise. 559 00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:08,096 Dr Tulloch, a material piece of evidence against the Duchess 560 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:11,656 is a polaroid photograph. You've seen this photograph? 561 00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:15,656 I have. I studied it for professional comparison. 562 00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,496 My Lord, the Defender claims that the man in the photograph 563 00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:19,736 is her husband. 564 00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,216 Dr Tulloch, you examined the Duke to establish if this was so. 565 00:41:22,240 --> 00:41:23,576 I did. 566 00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,256 I observed all the distributions 567 00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:27,976 of the suprapubic hair formation. 568 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,536 The man in the polaroid photograph has a thick, 569 00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,736 bushy growth that extends towards the umbilicus. 570 00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:37,136 The Duke, in contrast, has a very thin and fine 571 00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:38,896 suprapubic distribution. 572 00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:41,056 So what did you conclude from this clearly 573 00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,776 experienced professional examination? 574 00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:47,096 That the person in the photograph was different from the Duke. 575 00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:48,936 Different. 576 00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:50,680 Not her husband. 577 00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:55,016 Thank you, Dr Tulloch. 578 00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:58,120 How would you describe your relationship with the Defender? 579 00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,456 The Duchess and I are friends. 580 00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:08,256 We go for dinner, walk our dogs together, go to the cinema. 581 00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:09,976 I make her laugh. 582 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:14,376 She's needed that during her marriage, someone to make her laugh. 583 00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:17,616 The pursuer has a photograph of you and the Defender 584 00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:21,776 embracing on her doorstep in the early hours of the morning. 585 00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:23,776 Yes, he does. 586 00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,696 Have you at any time in your friendship 587 00:42:26,720 --> 00:42:29,736 been intimately involved with the Defender? 588 00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:31,216 Never. 589 00:42:31,240 --> 00:42:33,816 No, we've never once been adulterous. 590 00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,456 It's not even a remote possibility. 591 00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:37,856 We're friends. 592 00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,600 That embrace is the embrace that friends give each other. 593 00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,856 My lord, I have a letter from the Duke's physician declaring that 594 00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:01,816 the Duke suffers from a condition that requires him to sit. 595 00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:03,040 I will allow. 596 00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:12,840 Yes, my wife frequently went out in London unaccompanied by me. 597 00:43:14,720 --> 00:43:16,536 Sometimes she returned at midnight, 598 00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:19,216 sometimes at three or four o'clock in the morning. 599 00:43:19,240 --> 00:43:21,336 She said she was with friends. 600 00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:23,696 And were you entirely happy about that? 601 00:43:23,720 --> 00:43:25,376 No. 602 00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:26,960 All of her friends were men. 603 00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:31,856 She assured me it was all completely innocent. 604 00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:33,336 And you believed her? 605 00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:34,976 Of course. 606 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,136 But then my suspicions became overwhelming. 607 00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,816 I moved out of our London home into Claridge's Hotel, 608 00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:45,336 then after that I discovered her letters, 609 00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:50,896 diaries and other things that she kept secretly. 610 00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:54,016 And did you notice anything in her diaries that took your 611 00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:56,936 attention particularly? 612 00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,376 A list of names and dates, 613 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:00,760 names of men. 614 00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:06,336 And the letter V. 615 00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:10,080 And what does the Defender signify with the use of the letter V? 616 00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:16,776 She... She signifies... 617 00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:19,040 that intercourse occurred. 618 00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:22,956 How can you be so sure? 619 00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:26,536 Because it appears next to my own name, 620 00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:29,976 in the early years of our marriage, 621 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:32,440 when we were happy. 622 00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:41,056 You had intercourse with the Defender when you were married 623 00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:42,896 to your previous wife. 624 00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:45,016 You committed adultery. 625 00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:48,536 I did so for the purposes of obtaining a divorce. 626 00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:49,976 I see. 627 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,856 You are practised in calculation when it comes 628 00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,376 to obtaining a divorce. 629 00:44:55,400 --> 00:45:00,736 You say you left the London home and took a suite at Claridge's, 630 00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:04,896 but you were reconciled with the Defender in Paris. 631 00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:08,040 You shared the same room, the same bed. 632 00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:10,976 Briefly. 633 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:12,616 Briefly or not, 634 00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:16,496 at that time you condoned what you suspected. 635 00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:18,976 My wife is very persuasive. 636 00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,416 There were nights at Inveraray when I had to lock myself in 637 00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:23,216 the library in order to get some sleep, 638 00:45:23,240 --> 00:45:25,480 and even then she would batter on the door. 639 00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:28,736 But you seemed prepared to accept all that 640 00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,656 when the Defender paid for your scheme to salvage 641 00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:33,816 a shipwreck from Tobermory Bay 642 00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,616 and the restoration of Inveraray Castle. 643 00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:39,336 I put it to you that you only began to care about 644 00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:43,216 the Defender's London lifestyle when her money began to dry up. 645 00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:44,736 No, not at all. 646 00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:48,176 You weren't angry when the Defender refused you money? 647 00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:49,216 No. 648 00:45:49,240 --> 00:45:50,696 You didn't physically attack her? 649 00:45:50,720 --> 00:45:52,576 There were no occasions of violence? 650 00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:53,696 No, and no. 651 00:45:53,720 --> 00:45:56,336 You didn't, with the help of your daughter, 652 00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:59,256 terrorise the Defender by holding her down in her bed 653 00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:00,816 and stealing her diary? 654 00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:02,256 I didn't terrorise her. 655 00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:07,336 I merely took her diary from her bedside table as she reached for 656 00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:09,456 the telephone to call the police. 657 00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:11,616 My daughter Lady Jeanne will agree. 658 00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:13,080 I'm sure. 659 00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:17,576 You drink, don't you? 660 00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:19,440 You drink to excess. 661 00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:28,976 I drink the usual amount. 662 00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:31,976 I put it to you that you drink to a degree that would influence 663 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:36,696 a man's behaviour, his judgment, his state of mind 664 00:46:36,720 --> 00:46:40,776 and would cause his wife to stress even as she did everything 665 00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:42,171 - in her power... - My wife... 666 00:46:42,196 --> 00:46:43,176 to care and support. 667 00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:46,816 My wife, the Defender, 668 00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:48,480 is unfaithful. 669 00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:52,480 And I drink the usual amount. 670 00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:03,500 _ 671 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:06,680 - You're scum! - Slut! 672 00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:27,576 In the matter of Argyll versus Argyll, 673 00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:30,880 the court now calls Margaret, Duchess of Argyll. 674 00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:49,056 What purpose do your diaries serve? 675 00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:51,976 They're a record of my social engagements. 676 00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:55,656 People who've written dinner invitations. Parties. 677 00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:59,776 The letter V your husband alleges is a symbol 678 00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:02,696 for intercourse... 679 00:48:02,720 --> 00:48:06,736 is a shorthand for these social engagements, an aide-memoire? 680 00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:10,136 Yes. People who sent flowers, for example. 681 00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:12,736 And the love letters? 682 00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:16,176 Those are from before my marriage. 683 00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:18,736 Many women keep such letters. 684 00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:21,456 They can be comforting, 685 00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:23,536 especially if one's unhappy. 686 00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:25,776 You were unhappy with your husband? 687 00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,576 I wanted very much to be happy. 688 00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,056 I tried to make my husband happy, 689 00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:34,376 but he was volatile and neglectful 690 00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:37,040 and... I was very lonely. 691 00:48:39,240 --> 00:48:44,136 I must ask you about an explicit polaroid photograph. 692 00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:46,336 You said the man was your husband. 693 00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:48,616 I thought it must be. 694 00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:51,336 He did keep material of that nature. 695 00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:53,456 It was his fetish. 696 00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:56,456 And the woman in the image, is that you? 697 00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:58,296 Might I see it? 698 00:48:58,320 --> 00:48:59,480 Of course. 699 00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:11,976 Sorry, but this image is so faded 700 00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,640 it's impossible for me to say who that woman is. 701 00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:20,816 Your Grace, 702 00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:25,456 you husband alleges that you have had adulterous liaisons 703 00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:27,736 with over 80 men. 704 00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:30,360 Have you ever been unfaithful to your husband? 705 00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,160 No, never. 706 00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,816 M'lord, the Defender has been standing for hours. 707 00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:47,296 Might she be perhaps permitted a chair? 708 00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:49,840 The Defender will remain standing. 709 00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:54,136 Mr Emslie. 710 00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:57,056 My husband was allowed to sit. 711 00:49:57,080 --> 00:50:00,616 The Defender will restrict her remarks to what is germane. 712 00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:02,480 Mr Emslie, please proceed. 713 00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:09,136 Your Grace, 714 00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:11,736 I would like to ask you about the love letters. 715 00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:13,536 You say they were innocent? 716 00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:15,776 I say they were sent before my marriage. 717 00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:19,496 And you kept them because they were... 718 00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:20,936 comforting? 719 00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:22,376 Yes. 720 00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,040 My Lord, a letter to the Defender. 721 00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:28,296 "My love. 722 00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:33,456 "My tongue feels dry and violent upsurges shake my body. 723 00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:35,576 "I can hardly wait," 724 00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:38,856 "so much am I filled with visions of you," 725 00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:42,640 "memories and others which will become truth soon." 726 00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:44,936 Well, goodness me, 727 00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:48,496 are violent upsurges comforting? 728 00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:50,976 Comforting for most women would be a... 729 00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:53,656 Well, a kind word. 730 00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:56,040 Not a violent upsurge. 731 00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:02,696 That letter was sent to me before I married the Duke. 732 00:51:02,720 --> 00:51:04,376 Yes, the court heard you say that. 733 00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:10,136 The court also heard that Peter Combe is just a friend. 734 00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:11,256 He is. 735 00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:13,576 Well, then I would like your explanation for this, 736 00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:16,296 the photograph of Peter Combe leaving your house in 737 00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:17,736 the early hours of the morning, 738 00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:21,416 and you embrace very lovingly, in public. 739 00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:24,256 M'lord, Mr Combe has already testified with respect 740 00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:26,680 to his friendship with the Defender. 741 00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:29,576 I'll allow. 742 00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:32,696 What was Peter Combe doing with you until the early hours of 743 00:51:32,720 --> 00:51:35,400 the morning that should occasion such a, erm... 744 00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:39,176 warm embrace? 745 00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:40,560 We were talking. 746 00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:43,336 That's all. 747 00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:46,056 We played music, we talked. 748 00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:48,856 And I embraced him because he's my good friend. 749 00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:50,440 What is V? 750 00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:56,456 I've already said. 751 00:51:56,480 --> 00:52:00,456 It's a record of my social engagements, an aide-memoire. 752 00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:02,896 V is your cypher for intercourse, isn't it? 753 00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:05,656 You like to keep trophies of your conquests... 754 00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:07,536 letters, photographs. 755 00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:10,536 V is sexual conquest. 756 00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:13,920 And it is everywhere in your diaries. 757 00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:19,936 No, no, no. 758 00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:21,656 It's nothing to do with that. 759 00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:23,976 Well, then what is it? 760 00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:26,040 Because it isn't, erm... 761 00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:29,680 flowers. 762 00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:35,536 It's private. 763 00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:36,656 Private? 764 00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:39,400 Innocent, like the violent upsurges? 765 00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,176 Do you know the difference between the truth and a lie? 766 00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:46,936 Yes, I do. 767 00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:50,216 And I've heard my husband lie in this court. 768 00:52:50,240 --> 00:52:52,936 This action brought by my husband, it's not merely about divorce. 769 00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:55,856 He doesn't care about infidelities, he doesn't care about affairs. 770 00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:57,856 The only thing he cares about is destroying me. 771 00:52:57,880 --> 00:52:59,816 He wants nothing less than my total ruination 772 00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:01,736 and all I've ever tried to do is help him. 773 00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:04,016 And yet you lied constantly throughout your marriage. 774 00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:06,496 You lied about the paternity of your husband's sons 775 00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:09,136 and, for what I can only imagine is good measure, defamed 776 00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:11,336 the moral character of their mother. 777 00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:12,976 You lied about your own stepmother, 778 00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:14,456 the most egregious lies. 779 00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:17,976 You claimed that she and your husband were "having an affair." 780 00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:20,576 You are a liar, aren't you? 781 00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:23,096 You're lying now about your lovers and you are lying about 782 00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:25,616 the polaroid photograph because, as this court has shown, 783 00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:29,296 the man in the photograph is not your husband, as you claimed. 784 00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:31,897 But the woman in the photograph... 785 00:53:33,322 --> 00:53:36,304 that is you, isn't it? 786 00:53:55,880 --> 00:54:00,640 Yes, it's me. 787 00:54:02,720 --> 00:54:05,280 Those are my pearls. That's my ring. 788 00:54:06,720 --> 00:54:08,720 That's my bathroom. 789 00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:11,320 That woman is me. 790 00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:16,040 Well, well. 791 00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:19,336 There we are, then. 792 00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:24,736 I believe I'm not the only one to have no further questions. 793 00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:26,920 The Defender may step down. 794 00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:41,096 In this application for divorce on the grounds of adultery, 795 00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:44,776 I have considered the evidence and testimonies of both 796 00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:48,416 Pursuer, Ian Campbell, Duke of Argyll, 797 00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:52,336 and the Defender, Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll. 798 00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:55,216 Concerning the Duchess, 799 00:54:55,240 --> 00:54:58,976 I consider her to be a highly-sexed woman, who had 800 00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:02,456 ceased to be satisfied with normal relations 801 00:55:02,480 --> 00:55:06,976 and had started to indulge in disgusting sexual activities 802 00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:11,416 to gratify a debased sexual appetite. 803 00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:14,616 Evidence was supplied in the form of diaries, 804 00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:17,976 letters and Polaroid photographs. 805 00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:22,136 The man or men depicted cannot be identified as the angle 806 00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:25,256 of the images exclude the head. 807 00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:29,136 And that the Defender and the man or men depicted were indulging in 808 00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:32,856 a gross form of sexual relationship. 809 00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:37,416 There is enough in her own few admissions and proven facts 810 00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:41,136 to establish that she was a completely promiscuous woman, 811 00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:46,096 whose sexual appetite could only be satisfied with a number of men, 812 00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:50,736 whose promiscuity had led to a queer form of perversion 813 00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:54,376 and whose attitude to the sanctity of marriage was what 814 00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:58,176 the moderns might call sophisticated but what in plain language 815 00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:01,656 could only be described as wholly immoral. 816 00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:04,376 I find that the Duchess has committed adultery 817 00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:05,856 with several men, 818 00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:09,456 including the man or men in the Polaroid photographs. 819 00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:13,696 But I grant the Duke his divorce on the grounds of his wife's adultery 820 00:56:13,720 --> 00:56:15,576 with Peter Combe. 821 00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:18,496 The Duke will pay one eighth of the expense, 822 00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:21,040 the Duchess to pay the rest. 823 00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:27,000 _ 824 00:56:27,024 --> 00:56:31,024 _ 825 00:56:31,148 --> 00:56:37,048 _ 826 00:56:39,072 --> 00:56:42,072 _ 827 00:56:42,196 --> 00:56:46,196 _ 828 00:56:46,220 --> 00:56:49,720 _ 829 00:56:49,744 --> 00:56:53,344 _ 830 00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:57,200 _ 831 00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:04,936 Did he marry you for love or for money? 832 00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:07,336 I... I don't know. 833 00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:09,936 I simply don't know. 834 00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:12,216 I knew I loved him. 835 00:57:12,240 --> 00:57:15,176 I knew I wanted to save Inveraray, 836 00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:17,916 desperately badly. 837 00:57:18,040 --> 00:57:20,040 What he felt, I don't know. 838 00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:27,000 *CREDITS*