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Household of John 11th Duke of Marlborough SPENCER-CHURCHILL

(1) He is married to (Not public).

They got married in the year 1951, he was 24 years old.

The couple were divorced in 1961.


(2) He is married to Athina Mary LIVANOS.

They got married on October 23, 1961, he was 35 years old.

The couple were divorced in 1971.


(3) He is married to (Not public).

They got married on May 20, 1972, he was 46 years old.

The couple were divorced in 2008.


(4) He is married to (Not public).

They got married on December 3, 2008, he was 82 years old.


Notes about John 11th Duke of Marlborough SPENCER-CHURCHILL

John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, JP, DL (13 April 1926 – 16 October 2014) was the son of John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough, and his wife, the Hon. Alexandra Mary Hilda Cadogan.

He was a relative of the Duke of Devonshire and a generational cousin of the war-time Conservative Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill. He was also a distant relative of Diana, Princess of Wales, as both belonged to the Spencer family, and of the Vanderbilt family through his paternal grandmother, Consuelo Vanderbilt.

His principal seat was Blenheim Palace, in Woodstock, Oxfordshire. He was ranked 224th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2004, with an estimated wealth of £185 million. His death was announced on 16 October 2014 by Blenheim Palace.[1]

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Life and work[edit]
He was educated at Eton College and served seven years in the Life Guards, in which achieved the rank of Captain. In 1972, on inheriting the Dukedom of Marlborough, he took over the management of Blenheim Palace and the Blenheim estate.

In order to fund the maintenance of the house, he opened it to visitors and as a film set, and established a number of businesses, including a garden furniture company and a water bottling plant.[2]

He was also active in a range of organisations, including the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board and Oxford United Football Club. He served as Vice President of Witney Conservatives, the local party of David Cameron.

Personal life[edit]
Marlborough was married four times and had a total of six children, two of whom died in infancy.[3]

Firstly he married Susan Mary Hornby, daughter of Michael Charles St John Hornby and Nicolette Joan Ward, on 19 October 1951.[4] They divorced in 1961 after having three children:

John David Ivor Spencer-Churchill, Earl of Sunderland (born 17 November 1952, died 14 May 1955), a god-son of Princess Margaret[5]
Charles James Spencer-Churchill, 12th Duke of Marlborough (born 24 November 1955)
Lady Henrietta Mary Spencer-Churchill (born 7 October 1958)
Secondly, on 23 October 1961 he married Athina Onassis, née Livanos, former wife of Aristotle Onassis, and daughter of Stavros Livanos. They were divorced in 1971 and had no children.

Thirdly, on 20 May 1972 he married Countess Rosita Douglas-Stjernorp, daughter of ambassador Count Carl Douglas-Stjernorp and Ottora Haas-Heye. They had three children and were divorced on 15 May 2008:[6]

Lord Richard Spencer-Churchill (born & died 1973)
Lord Edward Albert Charles Spencer-Churchill (born 1974)
Lady Alexandra Elizabeth Spencer-Churchill (born 1977)
Finally, Marlborough married Lily Mahtani, née Sahni (born c. 1957 in Iran), on 3 December 2008 in the Private Chapel at Blenheim.[7] She was formerly the wife of Ratan Mahtani, a wealthy Indian expatriate businessman, by whom she had three children.[8] There were no children from this marriage.

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Historical events

Birthday April 13, 1926

  • The temperature on April 13, 1926 was between 0.8 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1926: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
    • April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
    • May 12 » The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
    • May 22 » Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
    • June 23 » The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
    • July 23 » Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
    • August 20 » Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.

Day of marriage December 3, 2008

  • The temperature on December 3, 2008 was between -0.7 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2008: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
    • February 26 » The New York Philharmonic performs in Pyongyang, North Korea; this is the first event of its kind to take place in North Korea.
    • April 30 » Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the children of the last Tsar of Russia, whose entire family was executed at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks.
    • May 15 » California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
    • September 7 » The United States government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
    • September 28 » Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit.
    • December 14 » Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws his shoes at then-U.S. President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq.

Day of death October 16, 2014

  • The temperature on October 16, 2014 was between 11.8 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2014: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
    • April 14 » Two hundred seventy-six schoolgirls are abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria.
    • April 21 » The American city of Flint, Michigan switches its water source to the Flint River, beginning the ongoing Flint water crisis which has caused lead poisoning in up to 12,000 people, and 15 deaths from Legionnaires disease, ultimately leading to criminal indictments against 15 people, five of whom have been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
    • June 27 » At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.
    • July 23 » TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in Xixi village near Huxi, Penghu, during approach to Phengu Airport. 48 of the 58 people on board are killed and five more people on the ground are injured.
    • September 18 » Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom, by 55% to 45%.
    • December 4 » Islamic insurgents kill three state police at a traffic circle before taking an empty school and a "press house" in Grozny. Ten state forces die with 28 injured in gun battles ending with ten insurgents killed.


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