A Very British Scandal (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.1 (2021)

Claire Foy: Margaret Campbell

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Quotes 

• [Margaret flashes her engagement ring at her mother, hoping she will notice it] 

  Helen Whigham : Yes, I can see it.

  Margaret Campbell : It's an Argyll family heirloom.

  Helen Whigham : It looks like it came from Woolworths.

• [talking about a trip to London Zoo] 

  Maureen Guinness : There were these monkeys, apes, bonobos, quite fascinating. Everything they do is about sex. They meet a new bonobo, they have sex with them. Sticking it in and out, dear, "hello, how do you do?". In and out, tossing each other off, fingering each other, in and out, in and out, non-stop. It's how they make friends. And I thought "that's Margaret - in and out, in and out - Margaret is a bonobo".

  Margaret Campbell : It's not my fault that you don't like it, Maureen, and that you're no good at it. I *do* like it. I like it very much and I'm extremely good at it.

• Margaret Campbell : It's not adultery if the marriage is unhappy. It doesn't count.

• [last night Ian made some very insulting comments about Margaret; now he apologises profusely to her] 

  Margaret Campbell : Every morning I wonder which Ian I'm going to wake up to.