Duke Experiences Royal Cut Direct

A portrait of probably the most famous Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, with their children and their Blenheim spaniels. – Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, was a member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family. Her marriage to Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough became an international symbol of the socially advantageous, but loveless, “Dollar Princess” marriages, which were so common during the Gilded Age.

Queen Snubs Marlborough

Duke Gets Cut Direct from Alexandra

Appears in Society While His American Wife Enjoys Herself on the Riviera 

Queen Is Friend of the Duchess Now

LONDON, Feb. 23.-While the Duchess is enjoying herself with her kin on the Riviera, the Duke of Marlborough is showing himself conspicuously here, and society is talking volubly of Queen Alexandra's manifestations of sympathy with the Duchess and of her Majesty's evidence of disapproval of the Duke.

He was at the opening of parliament. Some close observers say that when the Queen ascended the throne she bowed pointedly to the Duke of Argyle on the one side and Lord Londonderry on the other, while she ignored the Duke of Marlborough. The Duke’s aunt and a member of the Queen's household bore a most sympathetic letter from her Majesty to the Duchess before her departure from London for Paris. The Queen wrote that she hoped for a complete reconciliation between the Duchess and her husband, expressed affectionate interest in the future of their two sons and asked for a new photograph of them in which their mother should appear.

The photograph was taken, and with the signatures of mother and boys was sent to the Queen. In this connection it is interesting to note that a very short time ago King Edward took it upon himself to punish the Duchess of Marlborough in a like manner, snubbing her in an unmistakable way. — Special Cable to The Herald, 1907

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