THE DUCAL DOMESTIC DIFFICULTY IN THE GREAT CHURCHILL FAMILY. One of the penalties of a dukedom is that your private and domestic affairs become public property. Thus the people of New Zealand were six months ago Informed by cable of serious matrimonial difficulties between Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough and his Duchess Consuelo, nee Miss Vanderbilt. Now if appears—from another cable—that a “modus Vivendi" has been arrived at. and that although separated, the Duchess will have the care of the children. Our reproduction is from the famous painting by Sargent in the Academy of 1905, for which it was said the artist received a cheque for £15,000, the highest “original" price ever given for a portrait.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 7, 16 February 1907, Page 8

THE DUCAL DOMESTIC DIFFICULTY IN THE GREAT CHURCHILL FAMILY. One of the penalties of a dukedom is that your private and domestic affairs become public property. Thus the people of New Zealand were six months ago Informed by cable of serious matrimonial difficulties between Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough and his Duchess Consuelo, nee Miss Vanderbilt. Now if appears— from another cable— that a “modus Vivendi" has been arrived at. and that although separated, the Duchess will have the care of the children. Our reproduction is from the famous painting by Sargent in the Academy of 1905, for which it was said the artist received a cheque for £15,000, the highest “original" price ever given for a portrait.