The Red Duchess
March 2, 2010 by David Torrance
An interesting, if rather brief, documentary by the former political reporter Elizabeth Quigley on BBC Scotland this evening. Called The Duchess and the Fuhrer, it tells the much neglected story of the Duchess of Atholl, the Unionist (or Tory) MP for Kinross and West Perthshire in the 1920s and ’30s, who instigated a by-election on appeasement in 1938 and lost, mainly due to bad political timing. Liz Quigley also wrote an accompanying article for the Sunday Times on the programme. It’s well worth a watch.
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