'Dirty Duchess' of Argyll Margaret was the first victim of revenge porn, claims biographer
If you think revenge porn is a 21st century evil? Think again.
During a divorce hearing in 1963, the Duchess of Argyll, Margaret Campbell’s, husband Ian Campbell, the 11th Duke of Argyll, submitted sexually explicit polaroid and diaries of his wife that he had stolen.
The photo showed Margaret with a male companion, whose body was only visible from the neck down, and tried to paint her as a “nymphomaniac socialite,” with an unusually high sex drive.
The man in the photograph who became infamous as the “Headless Man,” and speculations surrounding his identity suggest that he could have been anyone, from Hollywood actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr to former Nazi Sigismund von Braun to Winston Churchill's son-in-law, Duncan Sandys.
Margaret herself never revealed who her lover was, possibly to retain some semblance of control over her life, after the scrutiny she had endure over her sexuality during and after the judgment.
