‘Scandal one to shook area to help you its extremely depth’
Whenever the girl partner try published so you can Malta, in early 1930s, Edwina preferred a fling having American player Bobby Sweeney.
To possess his part, within the 1931, Dickie started to flirt having 18-year-old , the long term Duchess Out of Argyll – who became infamous on her behalf own sex scandal when you look at the 1963, when she is actually shoot undertaking an intercourse operate to your an as yet not known boy.
The guy finally registered towards a long lasting affair that have Yola Letellier, new ‘boyish’ Frenchwoman which determined Colette’s 1944 novella, Gigi.
Nevertheless the most significant scandal of one’s couple’s matrimony involved in order to crack. In 1932, a magazine reported that among the “leading hostesses in the united states” is seeing a passionate fling having a black man – an enormous taboo from inside the 1930s Uk area.
It is reported that pair were the brand new “cam of West Prevent” while the scandal had “shaken society so you’re able to their most depth”, causing the lady become “exiled” of the regal order. (περισσότερα…)