John Albert Edward William Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough, styled Marquess of Blandford until 1934, was a British Army officer and peer.
Portrait by Bassano Ltd, 1934
Portrait of Blandford, centre, with his parents and younger brother by John Singer Sargent, 1905.
The grave of Marlborough and his first wife at St Martin's Church, Bladon
Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan was an American socialite. She was a member of the Vanderbilt family and only daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt and Alva Erskine Smith. Her first marriage to Charles Spe
John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough
…September 1897 – 11 March 1972), styled Marquess of Blandford until 1934, was a British Army officer and peer. The son of the 9th Duke of Marlborough and Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, he opened his ancestral home of Blenheim Palace to the public in 1950 and is known as a pioneer of the "stately homes" business. Blandford was born…
The Duchess of Marlborough (c. 1900–1905)
The Duchess of Marlborough, by Carolus-Duran (1895)
Consuelo and Winston Churchill at Blenheim Palace (1902)
The Duchess of Marlborough, by Paul César Helleu (c. 1903)