Yahoo Movies Marvel's Paul Bettany and The Crown's Claire Foy star in first-look at new BBC drama
WandaVision's Paul Bettany and The Crown's Claire Foy star in the first-look images for upcoming BBC and Amazon Studios series A Very British Scandal.
Marvel star Bettany plays Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll while Emmy-winner Claire Foy, who portrayed a young Queen Elizabeth II in the hit Netflix series, will play Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Campbell in the series, which focuses on the pair's scandalous divorce.
The Duke and Duchess of Argyll's divorce soon became one of the most notorious, extraordinary, and brutal legal cases of the 20th century.
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Margaret Campbell, the Duchess of Argyll, was a famed public figure during the 1960s and she dominated the front pages during the course of her divorce from the Duke, as the case exposed accusations of forgery, theft, violence, drug-taking, bribery, and an explicit Polaroid picture that was to haunt her for the rest of her life.
The three-part series is set to explore this scandal and turn it inside out as it explores the social and political climate of post-war Britain, looking at attitudes towards women as well as questioning whether institutional misogyny was widespread at the time.
As her contemporaries, the press, and the judiciary sought to vilify her, Margaret kept her head held high and refused to go quietly, even as she was betrayed by friends and publicly shamed by a society that relished her fall from grace.
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The three one-hour episodes will also star Gavin & Stacey's Julia Davis, Poldark's Richard McCabe, Cruella's Tim Steed, Sherlock and The Night Manager's Jonathan Aris, Spooks's Sophia Myles and King Charles III's Richard Goulding.
Amanda Drew (The Trial of Christine Keeler), Phoebe Nicholls (The Elephant Man), Camilla Rutherford (Phantom Thread), Timothy Renouf (Afterlife of the Party), Sophie Ward (The Moonstone) and Katherine Manners (Press) also star.
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The new series comes from Blueprint Pictures, the makers of the award-winning 2018 series A Very English Scandal, which told the story of the 1970s Jeremy Thorpe scandal.
It starred Hugh Grant as former Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe, who was put on trial for the attempted murder of his ex-lover Norman, who threatened Thorpe's marriage and political career.
A Very British Scandal is coming soon to BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK, and will be available in 2022 on Amazon Prime Video in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
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