Aristocrat Related To Princess Diana And Winston Churchill Is Charged With Strangulation
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Charles James Spencer-Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough, was arrested in May last year over the alleged offences.
LONDON, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Britain’s Duke of Marlborough, a distant relative of Winston Churchill, has been charged with three counts of intentional strangulation, British police said on Wednesday.
Charles James Spencer-Churchill, 70, was arrested in May last year over the alleged offences which took place in November 2022, and in January and May 2024 in Woodstock, near Oxford in central England, Thames Valley police said in a statement.
He has now been issued with a summons to appear at Oxford Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.
“Following a Thames Valley Police investigation, The Duke of Marlborough, has been charged with intentional strangulation offences in Woodstock,” the police statement said.
Spencer-Churchill, who is known as Jamie Blandford, is the 12th Duke of Marlborough, one of Britain’s most senior aristocratic families and whose ancestral home is Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, which played host to U.S. President Donald Trump in 2018.
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