DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH
VATICAN ANNULS MARRIAGE DECISION A SURPRISE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 15. Tho newspapers give prominence to tho decision of the Vatican annulling the marriage of tho Duke of Marlborough with Consuelo Vanderbilt, apparently at the request of Consuelo, who applied to tho Diocesan Court in Southwark Tho matter was referred to the Sacred Roman Rota, which has now given its decision. The Duke, who was recently converted to Roman Catholicism, did not oppose the annulment, the basis of which seems to be Consuclo’s claim that the marriage was arranged against her wishes.
[The Duke of Marlborough in |895 married Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, a daughter of the late W. K. Vanderbilt, of New York, and there are two sons of the union. The Duchess obtained a divorce in 1920, and the following year she married Lieutenantcolonel Jacques Balsan, French Air Attache in London. The Duke also remarried in 1921, his second wife being Miss Gladys Marie Deacon, of Boston.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19407, 16 November 1926, Page 5
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162DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH Evening Star, Issue 19407, 16 November 1926, Page 5
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