Editing Duncan Sandys (section)

== Personal life ==
In 1935, Sandys married [[Diana Churchill]], daughter of the future prime minister [[Winston Churchill]]. They divorced in 1960.

In 1962, he married Marie-Claire (''née'' Schmitt), who had been previously married to [[Robert Hudson, 2nd Viscount Hudson]].{{citation needed|date=October 2020}} The marriage lasted until Sandys's death.

It has long been speculated that he may have been the 'headless man' whose identity was concealed during the scandalous divorce trial of [[Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll]], in 1963.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/10/sarahhall|title='Headless men' in sex scandal finally named|author=Sarah Hall|work=The Guardian|date=10 August 2000|access-date=3 August 2015}}</ref>

Sandys died on 26 November 1987 at his home in London.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/27/obituaries/lord-duncan-sandys-79-dead-smoothed-way-to-end-of-empire.html|title=Lord Duncan-Sandys, 79, Dead; Smoothed Way to End of Empire|work=The New York Times|date=27 November 1987|author=Mark A. Uhlig}}</ref> He is buried in the churchyard of St Nicholas in [[Child Okeford]], Dorset. His grave is marked by a horizontal white slab.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://childokeford.org/the-village/village-history/the-village-archive/about-the-church/|title=About the Church – Child Okeford}}</ref>