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The BBC has shared a first look at Claire Foy and Paul Bettany in A Very British Scandal.
The pair will play the Duke and Duchess of Argyll in the drama series about the couple's high-profile divorce in the 1960s.
Foy will play Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, who was famed for her charisma, beauty and style, and who dominated the front pages as a divorce featuring accusations of forgery, theft, violence, drug-taking, secret recording, bribery and an explicit polaroid picture all played out.
New roles: The BBC has shared a first look at Claire Foy and Paul Bettany as the Duke and Duchess of Argyll in forthcoming drama A Very British Scandal
A Very British Scandal will explore the social and political climate of post-war Britain and look at attitudes towards women to ask whether institutional misogyny was widespread at the time.
The show will be made by the team behind the BBC's A Very English Scandal, which starred Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw as politician Jeremy Thorpe and his lover Norman Scott.
The first images from the drama show Foy in an autumnal setting while sporting a classic red lip and finger-wave hairstyle, and wearing a black winter coat with thick fur trim along with a hat, gloves and tartan scarf.
