The Duke of Marlborough has indicated he will plead not guilty at High Wycombe Magistrates’ Court to strangling his estranged wife Edla Marlborough.
Charles James Spencer-Churchill, a relative of Sir Winston Churchill and Princess Diana, is accused of three offences between November 2022 and May 2024.
The three charges of non-fatal intentional strangulation are alleged to have taken place in in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, against the same person.
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