It covered two divorce cases and the claim to the British peerage title Baron Ampthill, and the possibility of a virgin birth.
The couple had not fully consummated their marriage, though they had slept in the same bed in Oakley House for a night the preceding December.
Christabel claimed she was a virgin and produced medical expert evidence that prior to the birth of Geoffrey in October 1921 she had an only partly perforated hymen.
She also claimed that her husband had undertaken "Hunnish (that is to say Barbaric) scenes" and had attempted to rape her on the night in question, and that she had used a sponge he had previously used.
[2] The scandal led to the enactment of the Judicial Proceedings (Regulation of Reports) Act 1926[3] to prevent detailed evidence in divorce cases appearing in newspapers.