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“I saw the crowds – how was the reception?” The rhetorical question is asked smugly while the Duke saunters down a staircase.He continues: “Margaret, I want to give you one last chance because I’m an honourable man. I’ll go in there, talk to my QC and this will all be over. There’ll be no need for you to be confronted with … the evidence. Just nod your head.”It’s clear, even in this first scene, that the Duke believes that there is a power dynamic at play here.
She floats around London, goes to parties, catches up with girlfriends and looks classically stylish in the process. She’s the daughter of a new money family and, recently divorced, we see that Margaret was the talk of newspaper frontals long before her relation to the Duke. She was a style icon, the talk of the town – in the best possible way.
At the heart of this BBC series, though, is the acknowledgement that Margaret was a woman who enjoyed sex and won’t be made to feel ashamed of it. Maureen speaks about taking her child to the zoo and being fascinated by the monkeys there, particularly the bonobo, a specific type of ape.
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