Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll#Personal life

Ian Douglas Campbell was born in Paris, France.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=it89AAAAIBAJ&pg=3057%2C1657504 |title=Eleventh Duke of Argyll, Chief of Campbells |work=The Glasgow Herald |date=9 April 1973 |page=7 |accessdate=22 October 2017}} He was the son of Douglas Walter Campbell and his wife, Aimee Marie Suzanne Lawrence. His paternal grandfather, Lord Walter Campbell, was the third son of the 8th Duke of Argyll. Through his father, he was the great nephew of Queen Victoria's daughter Louise, who married John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, the fourth Governor General of Canada. He was educated at Milton Academy in the United States and Christ Church, Oxford.

He served during the Second World War with the rank of captain in the 8th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and saw combat during the Fall of France. Along with his GOC Maj. Gen. Victor Fortune, the war poet Aonghas Caimbeul, and all surviving members of the 51st (Highland) Division, Captain Campbell surrendered to Wehrmacht General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux in Normandy on 12 June 1940. He was held as a prisoner of war until 1945.The Times, 18 April 1973

He inherited the titles Duke of Argyll and Chief of Clan Campbell ({{langx|gd|MacCailein Mòr}}) following the death of his first cousin once removed, the 10th Duke, on 20 August 1949.

Argyll was married four times. He was known to be addicted to alcohol, gambling, and prescription drugs. The Duke was also accused of physical and emotional abuse by his wives, whose money he tried to use for maintaining Inveraray Castle.{{cite web|url=https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/argyll-divorce-society-scandal-margaret-campbell-duchess-headless-man-who/|title=The Argyll divorce: the society scandal that rocked 1960s Britain|work=BBC History|first=Sarah|last=Gristwood|date=26 December 2021|accessdate=4 January 2022}} His first marriage was to Janet Gladys Aitken, daughter of business tycoon and press baron Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, on 12 December 1927. They had a daughter:

• Lady Jeanne Campbell (1928–2007).

Ian and Janet divorced in 1934. Argyll's second marriage was to Louise Hollingsworth Morris Vanneck, née Clews, daughter of Henry Clews Jr. by his wife Louise Hollingsworth Morris (ex-wife 1894–1901 of Frederick Gebhard) of Baltimore, Maryland, and former wife of Hon. Andrew Vanneck on 23 November 1935. This marriage produced two sons:

• Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll (1937–2001), who married Iona Colquhoun on 4 July 1964. They had two children.
• Colin Ivar Campbell (b. 1946), who married Georgia Arianna Ziadie on 23 March 1974; they were divorced in 1975.

This marriage also ended in divorce, in 1951.

Argyll's third marriage was to Margaret Whigham, mother of Frances, Dowager Duchess of Rutland, from her previous marriage to Charles Francis Sweeny. They were married on 22 March 1951. Margaret was a glittering society figure. While married to the duke, she had affairs with other men including actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Duncan Sandys, the minister of defence. The marriage was childless and they divorced in 1963 after the duke found Polaroid photographs of her sexual activities with other men. In the divorce proceedings, the duke produced the photographs, which featured the duchess wearing only her signature triple-string of pearls while fellating an unidentified man. In hearings which gained much media attention, the divorce was granted, though on grounds of adultery with a different man.{{cite news|title=Duchess's 'headless man' was Fairbanks Jnr |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1352106/Duchesss-headless-man-was-Fairbanks-Jnr.html |date=10 August 2000 |author=Hugh Davies |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph}}

Argyll's fourth and final marriage was to Mathilda Coster Mortimer{{cite news |title=Mathilda, Dowager Duchess of Argyll, Dies at 70 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/08/nyregion/mathilda-dowager-duchess-of-argyll-dies-at-70.html |accessdate=13 January 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=8 June 1997}} on 15 June 1963. Mathilda, who was first married to Clemens Heller, founder of the Salzburg Global Seminar, a school in Salzburg, Austria, was the granddaughter of New York banker and clubman William B. Coster.{{cite news |last1=Currie |first1=William |title=Mother's Search |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-01-17-9303163183-story.html |accessdate=13 January 2019 |work=Chicago Tribune |date=January 17, 1993}} From this marriage he had a daughter:

• Lady Elspeth Campbell (1967–1967), who lived only five days.

They remained married until the duke's death on 7 April 1973. He died in a nursing home in Edinburgh. He was succeeded by his son Ian.

While most dukes and duchesses of Argyll are buried at Kilmun Parish Church, Ian Campbell and his son, the 12th duke, both chose to be buried on the island of Inishail in Loch Awe.

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|3= 3. Aimée Marie Suzanne Theresa LaFarge Lawrence 1873-1920

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|5= 5. Olivia Rowlandson Milns 1855-1892{{cite book|title=Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage|date=1878|publisher=Burke's Peerage Limited|page=39|edition=Volume 40|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YyJNAQAAMAAJ&q=john+milns+asory+house+bute&pg=PA39|accessdate=13 April 2016}}

|6= 6. John Lawrence 1837-1896

|7= 7. Emily Marie LaFarge 1847-1932

|8= 8. George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll

|9= 9. Lady Elizabeth Leveson-Gower 1824-1878

|10= 10. John Clarkson Milns 1813-1875

|11= 11. Grace Gourlay Mactaggart 1822-1895

|12= 12. John Riker Lawrence 1806-1872

|13= 13. Margaretta Quick 1810-1887

|14= 14. Jean Frédéric LaFarge 1790-1858

|15= 15. Louisa Josephine Binsse de St. Victor 1805-1895

|16= 16. John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll

|17= 17. Joan Glassel

|18= 18. George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland

|19= 19. Lady Harriet Howard

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|24= 24. Richard Penfold Lawrence 1779-1829

|25= 25. Sarah Ann Conrey d. 1861

|26= 26. Abraham Quick 1774-1835

|27= 27. Sarah Betts 1776-1855

|28= 28. Pierre de La Farge 1745-????

|29= 29. Marie Jeanne Frujien 1743-????

|30= 30. Louis Binsse de St. Victor

|31= 31. Victoire Bancel de Confoulens

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• Ian and Margaret's marriage and scandalous divorce was dramatised in the Amazon/BBC's A Very British Scandal, written by Sarah Phelps and broadcast in 2021, starring Paul Bettany as the Duke, Claire Foy as Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, and Sophia Myles as the Duke's previous wife, Louise Timpson.{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2020/03/sarah-phelps-signs-season-two-a-very-english-scandal-1202879227/|title='The ABC Murders' Writer Sarah Phelps Signs Up For 'A Very English Scandal' Season 2|first1=Jake|last1=Kanter|date=11 March 2020}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2019/01/31/english-scandal-series-2-will-focus-dirty-duchess-divorce-case/|title=A Very English Scandal series 2 will focus on the 'Dirty Duchess' divorce case|agency=Press Association|newspaper=The Telegraph |date=31 January 2019|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}{{cite news |last1=Williams |first1=Zoe |title='I like sex and am extremely good at it' – the real crime of the 'fellatio duchess' in A Very British Scandal |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/dec/17/ex-extremely-good-fellatio-duchess-argyll-very-british-scandal-claire-foy |access-date=17 December 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=17 December 2021}}

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