Emotional insecurity
Margaret of Argyll
A beauty much sought after
Men lined up in file
Pregnant when fifteen years old
David Niven’s child
Secret termination
Begins a life so wild
Ian Douglas Campbell
Prisoner of War
Captured at St Valery
Five year unknown scar
Returns a cold unfeeling man
His castle needing money
Heavy drinker prescription drugs
Goes in search of honey
England 1963
Men with all the power
The Duke prepared to shame his wife
Disgrace will have its hour
So Margaret is the wicked one
Hang her out to dry
Till Claire redeems humanity
And Ian is the lie
Brian Fahy
29 December 2021
+ BBC’s A Very British Scandal, starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany, helps us to see with new eyes the story of the lawsuit, Argyll v Argyll. How differently we now see and estimate issues of fairness between the sexes and the public standards of the time.
Erris Poetry 