Aristocrat, 70, gives address as Blenheim Palace and indicates he will plead not guilty to three charges of intentional strangulation
The Duke of Marlborough has appeared in court and indicated not guilty pleas to charges of strangling his estranged wife.
Charles James Spencer-Churchill, a distant relative of Winston Churchill and Diana, Princess of Wales, is accused of three charges of intentional strangulation against Edla Marlborough between November 2022 and April 2024.
High Wycombe magistrates court in Buckinghamshire was told the 70-year-old is accused of striking Marlborough, 57, several times after a row in their garden before putting his hands around her neck on 13 November 2022.
The court was told that on 23 April 2023 Marlborough ran into a laundry room where the defendant is alleged to have grabbed her, hit her with a closed fist and strangled her.
