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Household of Frances Laura CHARTERIS

(1) She is married to William Humble Eric WARD.

They got married on February 25, 1943, she was 27 years old.


(2) She is married to (Not public).

They got married before 1959.


(3) She is married to John Albert William 10th Duke of Marlborough SPENCER-CHURCHILL.

They got married on January 26, 1972, she was 56 years old.


Notes about Frances Laura CHARTERIS

Frances Laura Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (10 August 1915 – 19 February 1990) was a British noblewoman and socialite. She was variously Viscountess Long, Countess of Dudley and became Duchess of Marlborough upon her fourth marriage to John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough. She was the sister of novelist Hugo Charteris and Ann Charteris who married Ian Fleming,[1] as well as the granddaughter of Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss). Her third husband, Michael Temple Canfield, was the former husband of Lee Radziwill, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. During World War II, she served as an auxiliary nurse.

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Biography[edit]
Frances Laura Charteris was born on 10 August 1915 at London, England to Guy Lawrence Charteris and Frances Lucy Tennant,[2] daughter of a Scottish chemical merchant. Laura, as she was called, had 3 siblings, Ann, Mary Rose and Hugo. Their mother died of cancer in 1925 and the remainder of their childhood was spent shuffling between homes in London and family in Scotland, where their grandparents, the Earl and Countess of Wemyss lived.[3] During World War II, she served as an auxiliary nurse for the Royal Navy.[4]

Marriages[edit]
On 14 November 1933, at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, London, England, she married Walter Francis David Long, 2nd Viscount Long. He was the son of Brigadier-General Walter Long and Sibell Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone. During her marriage she was the Viscountess Laura Long. Laura's only child, (Antoinette) Sara Francis Sibell Long (born 9 Aug 1934) was the product of this union.[5] The couple divorced in 1942.[2]

Laura then married, William Humble Eric Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley, son of William Humble Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley and Rachel Gurney, on 23 February 1943.[6] She was known as Laura Countess of Dudley until she and Ward divorced in 1954.[2]

On 13 June 1960, Laura married Michael Temple Canfield,[2] rumored to have been the son of Prince George, Duke of Kent and American Alice “Kiki” Gwynne Preston.[7] Canfield was adopted as an infant by Cass Canfield, head of Harper and Row Publishing house[8] with his wife Katharine Emmet.[9] Michael Canfield was the previous husband of Lee Radziwill, Jackie Kennedy's younger sister.[10]

Her last husband was John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough, whom she married six weeks before his death in 1972.[11] From the time of this marriage, she became known as Laura, Duchess of Marlborough.[2]

Laura died on 19 February 1990 at age 74 at Portman Towers, Marylebone, London, England.[2]

Autobiography[edit]
In 1980, she published her autobiography, Laughter from a Cloud. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980 (ISBN 978-0-297-77739-7)

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Birthday August 10, 1915

  • The temperature on August 10, 1915 was between 13.2 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
    • January 17 » Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
    • January 31 » World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
    • May 22 » Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
    • July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
    • July 16 » Henry James becomes a British citizen to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War.
    • October 12 » World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium

Day of marriage January 26, 1972

  • The temperature on January 26, 1972 was between -1.8 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 8.5 mm of rain during 5.0 hours. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
    • February 15 » José María Velasco Ibarra, serving as President of Ecuador for the fifth time, is overthrown by the military for the fourth time.
    • March 22 » The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
    • July 19 » Dhofar Rebellion: British SAS units help the Omani government against Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman rebels in the Battle of Mirbat.
    • September 11 » The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system begins passenger service.
    • November 8 » American pay television network Home Box Office (HBO) launches, initially transmitting to 365 Teleservice Cable subscribers in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. First operating as a Northeastern U.S.-based regional service, HBO was one of the first cable-originated television channels. HBO's inaugural programming that evening consisted of its first event telecast—an NHL hockey game between the New York Rangers and the Vancouver Canucks, and its first movie presentation—the 1971 Paul Newman–Henry Fonda film Sometimes a Great Notion.
    • December 18 » Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.

Day of death February 19, 1990

  • The temperature on February 19, 1990 was between 4.7 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (51%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1990: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
    • March 10 » In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.
    • April 24 » Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
    • July 11 » Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
    • September 2 » Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
    • October 13 » Syrian forces attack free areas of Lebanon, removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
    • November 28 » British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigns as leader of the Conservative Party and, therefore, as Prime Minister. She is succeeded in both positions by John Major.


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