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RICHARD EDEN: After splitting up with wife of 22 years, Duke of Marlborough is pictured for the first time with new companion at his ancestral home Blenheim Palace, birthplace of Winston Churchill
I disclosed in May that the Duke of Marlborough had separated from Edla, his wife of 22 years. Now, he's been parading his new companion, Doune Murray.
As my exclusive photograph shows, the Duke, 68, better known as Jamie Blandford, and Doune were driven round the Game Fair at the weekend at his ancestral home, Blenheim in Oxfordshire, where Sir Keir Starmer entertained European leaders earlier this month. By then, Edla had already been credited by many – Jamie included – for 'settling him down' after his turbulent 20s and 30s, during which, at his lowest point, his desire for drugs regularly led him to the notorious Mozart Estate in North London. He duly did – aware that his first marriage, to Becky Few Brown, with whom he had a son, George, now the Marquess of Blandford, had foundered because of hard-partying ways which once saw him shoot out Verbier's streetlights with a shotgun, perhaps destabilised by McNally's hospitality.
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