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 mentioned on Wednesday.
Charles James Spencer-Churchill, 70, was arrested in Might final yr over the alleged offences which came about in November 2022, and in January and Might 2024 in Woodstock, close to Oxford in central England, Thames Valley police mentioned in an announcement.
He has now been issued with a summons to seem at Oxford Magistrates’ Court docket on Thursday.
“Following a Thames Valley Police investigation, The Duke of Marlborough, has been charged with intentional strangulation offences in Woodstock,” the police assertion mentioned.
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Spencer-Churchill, who is named Jamie Blandford, is the twelfth Duke of Marlborough, one in every of Britain’s most senior aristocratic households and whose ancestral house is Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, which performed host to U.S. President Donald Trump in 2018.
Two males had been jailed earlier this yr for stealing a $6 million 18-carat golden rest room from the palace, which was Winston Churchill’s birthplace.
In addition to the British wartime chief, Spencer-Churchill can be associated to Princess Diana, the late first spouse of King Charles.
