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Duke of Marlborough banned from driving for rushing in Oxfordshire

The Duke of Marlboroughn Charles James Spencer-Churchill, has been fined £500 after driving his Hyundai at 30mph above the pace restrict on an Oxfordshire highway.

WOODSTOCK, ENGLAND – JUNE 09: The Duke of Marlborough, Jamie Spencer-Churchill, makes a speech earlier than the revealing of a bust of Sir Winston Churchill within the grounds of Blenheim Palace to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the dying of Sir Winston Churchill on June 9, 2015 in Oxfordshire, England. (Picture by Andrew Matthews – WPA Pool / Getty Photos) (Picture: WPA Pool, Getty Photos)

The Duke of Marlborough has been handed a £500 high quality after driving his Hyundai at 30mph over the pace restrict on an Oxfordshire highway.

Charles James Spencer-Churchill – a relative of Sir Winston Churchill and Diana, Princess of Wales – was additionally banned from driving for 28 days after admitting to travelling at 80mph in a 50mph zone on Woodstock Highway, Yarnton, on October 18 2024.

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The duke was absent from the listening to at Excessive Wycombe Magistrates’ Courtroom on Friday afternoon, and was sentenced with out being current after his solicitor entered a responsible plea to the rushing offence on his behalf.

District Choose Kamlesh Rana knowledgeable the courtroom that Spencer-Churchill had a “clear driving report”.

She additional imposed a £200 surcharge price and £300 in prosecution prices as a part of the duke’s sentence.

Spencer-Churchill confronted a separate cost of failing to supply police with info regarding the identification of the motive force of a Hyundai in Banbury, Oxfordshire, between November 15 and December 13 2024 – nevertheless, the prosecution provided no proof on Friday following Spencer-Churchill’s responsible plea to the rushing cost.

Spencer-Churchill’s ancestral seat is the 300-year-old Blenheim Palace – Sir Winston’s birthplace – situated in Woodstock.

The duke neither owns the 18th century baroque palace nor performs any half within the administration of the residence and its sprawling property.

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