{"id":4806,"date":"2025-12-18T12:53:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=4806"},"modified":"2025-12-18T12:53:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:53:41","slug":"duke-of-marlborough-accused-of-strangling-estranged-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=4806","title":{"rendered":"Duke of Marlborough accused of strangling estranged wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Duke of Marlborough has been accused of strangling his estranged wife on three occasions in an 18-month period, court documents show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Charles James Spencer-Churchill, 70, formerly known as Jamie Blandford, has been charged with three counts of non-fatal intentional strangulation against Edla Marlborough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He had been due to appear before Oxford magistrates on Thursday morning but the case was adjourned ahead of a plea hearing at High Wycombe Magistrates&#8217; Court on 5 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The attacks are alleged to have taken place in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, between November 2022 and May 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The twice-married aristocrat, formerly known as the Marquess of Blandford, was arrested on 13 May 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He inherited his dukedom in 2014, following the death of his father, the 11th Duke of Marlborough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He is a first cousin, three times removed, of Sir Winston Churchill and a distant relative of the late Princess Diana through the Spencer family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">His ancestral family home is Blenheim Palace in Woodstock \u2013 Sir Winston&#8217;s birthplace &#8211; which is owned and managed by Blenheim Palace Heritage Foundation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The foundation said it was &#8220;unable to comment on the charges, which relate to the duke&#8217;s personal conduct and private life, and which are subject to live, criminal proceedings&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Duke #Marlborough #accused #strangling #estranged #wife<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Duke of Marlborough has be&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}