{"id":9479,"date":"2026-01-05T11:03:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T11:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=9479"},"modified":"2026-01-05T11:03:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T11:03:01","slug":"duke-of-marlborough-denies-strangling-estranged-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=9479","title":{"rendered":"Duke of Marlborough denies 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 denied strangling his estranged wife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Charles James Spencer-Churchill, formerly known as Jamie Blandford, is accused of attacking Edla Marlborough in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, three times in an 18-month period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The 70-year-old appeared at High Wycombe Magistrates&#8217; Court where he pleaded not guilty to three counts of intentional strangulation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He was released on bail to appear at Oxford Crown Court on 5 February.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The attacks are alleged to have taken place between November 2022 and May 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The twice-married aristocrat, formerly known as the Marquess of Blandford, married his second wife, Welsh ceramicist Edla Griffiths, in 2002.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">They are said to have met while she was living in Chelsea and working on her art, and they wed after dating for seven years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The pair are thought to have separated in 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<\/div>\n<p>#Duke #Marlborough #denies #strangling #estranged #wife<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Duke of Marlborough has de&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\/9479"}],"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=9479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9479\/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=9479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}