Amazon Studios has released the first official photos from BBC’s forthcoming second installment of A Very British Scandal, starring Emmy winner Claire Foy, and Emmy nominee Paul Bettany. The series is expected to make its return in 2022 on Amazon Prime Video.
The A Very British Scandal Season 2 photos, which you can check out below, provides us with our first look at Foy and Bettany as the Duchess and Duke of Argyll, whose marriage fell apart after the Duke discovered explicit photos of his wife’s sexual affairs with other men.
A first look at Claire Foy and @Paul_Bettany in A Very British Scandal, coming to @PrimeVideo in 2022. pic.twitter.com/lHRMO9PSds
— Amazon Studios (@AmazonStudios) October 25, 2021
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The second installment of A Very British Scandal is written by Sarah Phelps (Dublin Murders). It stars Claire Foy (The Crown), Paul Bettany (WandaVision), Amanda Drew (The Trial of Christine Keeler), Richard McCabe (Harlots), Phoebe Nicholls (The Elephant Man), Camilla Rutherford (Phantom Thread), Timothy Renouf (Afterlife of the Party), Sophia Myles (A Discovery of Witches), Sophie Ward (Land Girls), Tim Steed (Cruella), Katherine Manners (War & Peace), Richard Goulding (The Crown), Jonathan Aris (The Night Manager), Oliver Chris (King Charles III), Nicholas Rowe (Roadkill), and Miles Jupp (The Durrells).
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“The second installment focuses on the divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, one of the most notorious, extraordinary, and brutal legal cases of the 20th century,” reads the synopsis. “Famed for her charisma, beauty, and style, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, dominated the front pages as the divorce 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.
A Very British Scandal turns this scandal inside out in order to explore the social and political climate of post-war Britain, looking at attitudes towards women, and asking 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 with bravery and resilience, refusing to go quietly as she was betrayed by her friends and publicly shamed by a society that reveled in her fall from grace.”
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The limited series s being helmed by Anne Sewitsky and produced by Chris Ballantyne. Executive Producers are Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Diarmuid McKeown, and Delyth Scudamore for Blueprint Pictures, Lucy Richer for the BBC, Sarah Phelps, Anne Sewitsky, Claire Foy, Kate Triggs, and Dominic Treadwell-Collins.
