Claire Foy and Paul Bettany to star in A Very British Scandal for BBC and Amazon

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The Crown alum and WandaVision star have signed on for the three-episode Season 2 follow-up to A Very English Scandal, written by The ABC Murders' Sarah Phelps. "A Very English Scandal will move on from the story of Jeremy Thorpe to become an anthology series, focusing on a new crisis that gripped the British establishment," according to Deadline. "The second season centers on a 1963 sex scandal involving Margaret Campbell, the Duchess of Argyll. During a messy divorce from her second husband, he seized images of Campbell performing a sex act on an unknown man and she became known as 'The Dirty Duchess.' Foy and Bettany will play the Duchess and Duke respectively." Since it's set in Scotland, A Very British Scandal is adding "British" to its title. Here’s the logline: “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 toward 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 revelled in her fall from grace.”