Paperback: "Forget Not (1977) gives the other side of the story by a woman who has been the victim of a great deal of calumny, speculation and rumour. The great beauty and wealth with which fate endowed her have been counterbalanced by tragedy, unpleasantness and sheer misery. It is often the fate of people of either sex who have been blessed with good looks, riches and all the other good things in life to be the object of hatred and envy by those who have not been so fortunate."
"The first half of the book gives the reader a glimpse of that carefree time between the wars described with only slight hyperbole by P G Wodehouse and Noel Coward, when Margaret Whigham was the most striking and popular debutante of her year - the parties, the flirtations and the broken engagements."
"The last part of the book describes her disastrous marriage to the late Duke of Argyll and its ending in the most expensive divorce case in history. Up till now, we have heard only one side, but the author now puts the record straight."
"Since this book has been published, Inverary Castle has been badly damaged by fire. It was Whigham money which restored it and it was the Duchess' enthusiasm which made a success of its opening to the public. It was her money and energy, too, which went a long way towards saving the "Argylls" together with "Mad Mitch"."
"Forget Not is a story which had to be told."
The Tatler
About the author: Ethel Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll (née Whigham; 1912 -1993) was a British socialite, best remembered for a celebrated divorce case in 1963 from her second husband, the 11th Duke of Argyll, which featured salacious photographs and scandalous stories.
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