Mr. Mickey's Guide to the Great Hussies in History: Margaret, Duchess of Argyll

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Mr. Mickey simply devours historical biographies and is presently re-reading (for the thousandth time) An Uncommon Woman, a scholarly biography of the Empress Frederick by Hannah Pakula. That said, the only thing more inspiring than a martyr is a slut!!!! MM loves an historical hussy, which brings us to the first in our ongoing "Guide to Great Hussies in History" series, "Dirty Duchess" Margaret, Duchess of Argyll. Marg of Arg, as she was eventually known, was the daughter of a Scottish millionaire and grew up in New York City. She was engaged to the Earl of Warwick but broke it off to marry golfer Charles Sweeny. Marg was always on the Best Dressed List and a social sensation to such a degree that she was immortalized in Cole Porter's song You're the Top! (her part "You're Mussolini, you're Mrs. Sweeny, you're camembert!" was eventually changed).

While still married to Mr. Sweeny, Marg fell down an elevator shaft and and had lasting injuries including the loss of her sense of smell and taste (due to nerve damage). She also, allegedly, became a nymphomaniac although she had already had plenty of action before that time. After her divorce she married the Duke. Later when he asked for a divorce, the Duke accused Marg of having slept with 88 men and introduced into evidence legendary Polaroid photos of the Duchess wearing nothing but three strands of pearls performing fellatio on one man while another masturbated in the background. Conveniently both men's heads were cropped out of the photographs. The man getting the hum job was eventually identified as actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and the other man was Winston Churchill's son-in-law Duncan Sandys who was Minister of Defense (the only Polaroid camera in Britain at that time belonged to the Ministry). The judge granted the divorce and called Marg "a completely promiscuous woman whose sexual appetite could only be satsfied with a number of men." Now how's that for an historical hussy?