| 词条 | Laura Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough |
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| honorific-prefix = Her Grace | name = The Duchess of Marlborough | honorific-suffix = | image = | caption = | birth_name= Frances Laura Charteris |birth_date={{birth date|df=yes|1915|08|10}} | birth_place = London, England | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1990|02|19|1915|08|10}} | death_place = Portman Towers, Marylebone, London, England | place of burial = | nationality = British | spouse = {{marriage|Walter Long, 2nd Viscount Long |1933|1942|reason=div}} {{marriage|William Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley |1943|1954|reason=div}} {{marriage|Michael Temple Canfield |1960|1969|reason=his death}} {{marriage|John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough |1972|1972|reason=his death}} | children = Antoinette Sara Frances Sibell Long | parents = The Hon. Guy Lawrence Charteris Frances Lucy Tennant | relations = Hugo Charteris (brother) }} Frances Laura Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (née Charteris; 10 August 1915 – 19 February 1990), was a British noblewoman and socialite. She was variously Viscountess Long, Countess of Dudley and became Duchess of Marlborough upon her fourth marriage, to John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough. She was the sister of novelist Hugo Charteris and Ann Charteris (who married Ian Fleming),[1] as well as the granddaughter of Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss. Her third husband, Michael Temple Canfield, was the former husband of Lee Radziwill, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. During World War II, she served as an auxiliary nurse. Early lifeFrances Laura Charteris was born on 10 August 1915 at London, England, to Captain the Hon. Guy Lawrence Charteris (second son of the 11th Earl of Wemyss and Mary Constance Wyndham) and Frances Lucy Tennant,[2] daughter of a Scottish chemical merchant. Laura, as she was called, had 3 siblings, Ann, Mary Rose and Hugo. Their mother died of cancer in 1925 and the remainder of their childhood was spent shuffling between homes in London and family in Scotland, where their grandparents, the Earl and Countess of Wemyss, lived.[3] During World War II, she served as an auxiliary nurse for the Royal Navy.[4] MarriagesOn 14 November 1933, at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, London, England, she married Walter Francis David Long, 2nd Viscount Long. He was the son of Brigadier-General Walter Long and Sibell Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone. During her marriage, she was the Viscountess Long. Laura's only child, was the product of this union:[5] The couple divorced in 1942.[2]
Laura then married William Humble Eric Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley, son of William Humble Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley and Rachel Gurney, on 23 February 1943.[6] She was known as the Countess of Dudley until she and Ward divorced in 1954.[2] On 13 June 1960, Laura married Michael Temple Canfield,[2] rumoured to have been the son of Prince George, Duke of Kent and American Alice “Kiki” Gwynne Preston.[7] Canfield was adopted as an infant by Cass Canfield, head of Harper and Row Publishing house[8] with his wife Katharine Emmet.[9] Michael Canfield was the previous husband of Lee Radziwill, Jackie Kennedy's younger sister.[10] Her fourth and final husband was John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough,[11][12] whom she married six weeks before his death in 1972.[13][14] From the time of this marriage, she became known as the Duchess of Marlborough.[2] Laura died on 19 February 1990 at age 74 at Portman Towers, Marylebone, London, England.[2] AutobiographyIn 1980, she published her autobiography, Laughter from a Cloud. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980 ({{ISBN|978-0-297-77739-7}}) Titles
References1. ^{{cite web|title=Anne Geraldine Mary Charteris|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p1099.htm|website=The Peerage|publisher=Lundy Consulting Ltd.|accessdate=24 June 2015}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Spencer-Churchill, Laura}}2. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web|title=Frances Laura Charteris|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p10641.htm|website=The Peerage|publisher=Lundy Consulting Ltd.|accessdate=24 June 2015}} 3. ^{{cite book|last1=Lycett|first1=Andrew|title=Ian Fleming|date=2013|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=125-0-037-972|page=93|edition=reprint| url=https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=zOSPzfpfhA8C&lpg=PA468}} 4. ^"Lycett (2013)", p 101 5. ^{{cite web|title=Long, Viscount (UK, 1921)|url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/long1921.htm|website=Cracrofts Peerage|publisher=Peerage Research Trust|accessdate=24 June 2015}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Frances Laura Charteris|url=http://tattonpark.cheshirealan.org.uk/p231.htm|website=Cracrofts Peerage|publisher=Peerage Research Trust|accessdate=24 June 2015}} 7. ^{{cite book|last1=Campbell|first1=Lady Colin|title=The queen mother: the untold story of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, who became Queen Elizabeth the queen mother|date=2012|publisher=St. Martin's Press|location=New York|isbn=978-1-250-01896-0|page=453|edition=First U.S. edition.|url=https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=L4vUzJHBLFcC&lpg=PT453}} 8. ^{{cite book|last1=Pearson|first1=John|title=The private lives of Winston Churchill|date=2011|publisher=Bloomsbury Reader|location=London|isbn=978-144-8-20783-1|page=228| url=https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=LOyIFMhshAQC&lpg=PT228|accessdate=24 June 2015}} 9. ^{{cite news|title=Deaths: CHURCHILL|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/07/19/obituary-1-no-title.html|accessdate=24 June 2015|publisher=The New York Times|date=19 July 1964}} 10. ^{{cite news|title=Roman Catholics: The Law's Delay|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,873839-1,00.html|accessdate=24 June 2015|publisher=Time|date=28 February 1964}} 11. ^{{cite news|last1=Times|first1=Special To The New York|title=Marlborough to Marry Mrs. Canfield|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/01/19/archives/marlborough-to-marry-mrs-canfield.html|accessdate=15 August 2017|work=The New York Times|date=19 January 1972}} 12. ^{{cite news|last1=Weinraub|first1=Judith|title=Future Duchess Looks to the Splendors of Blenheim|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/01/25/archives/future-duchess-looks-to-the-splendors-of-blenheim.html?_r=0|accessdate=15 August 2017|work=The New York Times|date=25 January 1972}} 13. ^{{cite web|title=John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke Marlborough|url=http://www.cadoganarchive.co.uk/person.php?id=211|website=Cadogan Archive|publisher=Cadogan Archive|accessdate=24 June 2015}} 14. ^{{cite news|last1=Times|first1=Special To The New York|title=Duke of Marlborough Is Dead; Master of Blenheim Palace, 74|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/12/archives/duke-of-marlborough-is-dead-master-of-blenheim-palace-74-was-an.html|accessdate=15 August 2017|work=The New York Times|date=12 March 1972}} 8 : 1915 births|1990 deaths|Women autobiographers|English socialites|Spencer-Churchill family|20th-century British women writers|20th-century British non-fiction writers|English autobiographers |
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