Bookings for a luxury train journey from Edinburgh have sold at an incredible rate after the BBC aired a program about the destination in Argyll this week.
The journey to Inveraray Castle involves a three-course brunch onboard and a five-course dinner on the return journey.
The train will depart from Edinburgh Waverley Station in August 2022 and tickets are priced at £376-a-head.
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After the BBC aired the programme, "A Very British Scandal" about the 11th Duke and Duchess of Argyll's sensational divorce, bookings for the journey soared as soon as the programme had finished.
The three-part series starred Claire Foy as the champagne-swigging "dirty duchess", who was alleged to have cheated on her husband by having sex with more than 80 different men.
Their divorce hearing shocked the nation in 1963 when the Duke produced the infamous "headless man" photo which showed her performing a sex act on an unidentified lover.
Now bosses of the Northern Belle train have been stunned as "the phones went crazy" with bookings for next year.
A spokesman said: "We were astonished by the response. We didn’t know about the TV programme when we arranged the trip and hadn’t expected anything like this.
"The Argyll’s family home is set in a beautiful spot next to Loch Fyne and is always a popular destination because it featured in TV’s Downton Abbey.
"But now everybody is talking about the ‘dirty duchess’ and wants to find out more about her antics. Her behaviour scandalised the nation during the rather straight-laced 1960s."
The Duchess, who never revealed the identity of the man she was photographed giving oral sex to, died penniless aged 80 in 1993. Her former husband’s grandson Torquhil has now inherited his title.
Passengers will be welcomed aboard the Northern Belle, once part of the iconic Orient Express, at Edinburgh Waverley station with a glass of champagne at 8am on Friday August 26 for the trip.
For more details of the Northern Belle, phone 01270 899681 or see www.northernbelle.co.uk
