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...flag: the banner of Britain's hallowed House of Marlborough. After divorcing Onassis and taking custody of their two children last year, Tina was badly injured in a skiing accident at St. Moritz and convalesced in Oxfordshire, where she enjoyed the solicitous attentions of the Marquess of Blandford, 35, coltish, polo-playing heir to the 10th Duke of Marlborough and cousin to Sir Winston Churchill. Last week, claiming what apparently is an ex-husband's privilege in the Riviera set, Onassis leaked the news that Tina and "Sonny" Blandford, himself a veteran of a previous marriage, would...
...Britain's bluest-blooded peers, the polo-playing Marquess of Blandford, 33, son and heir of the Duke of Marlborough, sued his wife Susan, mother of his three children (one died), for divorce after eight years of marriage, Blandford, whose family motto is "Faithful Though Unfortunate," charged that Susan, daughter of a wealthy bookseller, had misbehaved with Alan Heber-Percy, 24, a distant kinsman of the marquess...
...BLANDFORD JENNINGS Maplewood...
...club will organize a whole "season" for a debutante, chaperone her in the direction of all the most eligible young men. And every year there is always at least one Monkey who does her alma mater particularly proud. Last season it was Susan Hornby, who married the Marquess of Blandford. This year's champ: Jane McNeill, now the wife of the Earl of Dalkeith...
Last week headquarters of the British Army of the Rhine completed the story. The Marquess of Blandford, it announced, has resigned his commission in the Life Guards. "Wolfenbüttel is no place for a young couple to live," he explained. "Too provincial...