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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Drama as the Duke of Roxburghe's stepmother puts the family's London home on the market for £4 million

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: As the country's aristocrats make plans for the summer social Season, the 11th Duke of Roxburghe may need to book a room at a Travelodge.

The move by Virginia, the Dowager Duchess of Roxburghe, follows her exit from magnificent Floors Castle, the family's ancestral seat in Scotland, after the death of her husband, Guy, the 10th Duke. Blowhard Barry may not have noticed that the Earl, who helped double agent Oleg Gordievsky to defect from the Soviet Union in 1985, is a critic of Vladimir Putin, calling him 'delusional' and deploring 'sadistic' Russian troops in a Lords speech earlier this year. Labour MP Barry Sheerman (pictured in 2021) accused the Earl of Oxford and Asquith, a former MI6 chief in Moscow, of being 'a lobbyist for a man in the U.S. who is believed to be involved in Russian gang crime'

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