LONDON – John Spencer-Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough and a cousin and godson of British wartime leader Winston Churchill, has died. He was 88. Blenheim Palace said Spencer-Churchill died ...

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John Spencer-Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough and a cousin and godson of British wartime leader Winston Churchill, has died. He was 88. Blenheim Palace said Spencer-Churchill died Thursday morning.

The Right Hon. John Winston Spencer Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, died in London. England, yesterday, of angina pectoris, in the sixty-second year of his age. View Full Article in Timesmachine » ...

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Duke of Marlborough dies aged 88. Blenheim Palace confirms the Duke, whose full name was John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, passed away peacefully this morning ...

The Duke of Marlborough has died, Blenheim Palace has announced. John Spencer-Churchill, the 11th Duke of Marlborough, "passed away peacefully" early on Thursday morning, a Palace spokesman said.