How did Donald Trump and the Duke of Marlborough buddy up? Former jailbird aristocrat reveals..

DM ^ | 10/25/2019 | tim willis

[RummyChick]

We have become rather immune to surprises since Donald Trump was elected the most powerful man in the world.

But when Charles James Spencer-Churchill, the 12th Duke of Marlborough — better known in a previous incarnation as Jamie Blandford, the junkie-jailbird marquess — reveals that he is advising the American President on climate policy, the news is a little unexpected.

It's almost as unlikely as his own transformation, from an archetypal black sheep into a Wodehousian grandee whose rumpled clothes and vague manner conceal a great store of humanity and understanding.

[princess leah]

I was at Bleinhem Palace (his home) in 2015 on June 9th when they unveiled a bust of Winston Churchill and he spoke.

[JennysCool]

I’m quite certain the President has his lines of communication open with colorful and knowledgeable people everywhere.

Can you imagine the media being critical about that with Obama?

[griswold3]

Hey! I’m advising Trump on climate change. I email him often

[mrsmith]

“Wodehousean”... so I had to read it.
Not a bad read.

[Cecily]

I wonder what his Wodehousian nickname is, though. Jamie just doesn’t have the dash of Bingo, Tuppy, Chuffy, Oofy, Catsmeat, Gussie, Stinker, Stilton, Boko, Barmy, Biffy, et al.

[x]

Distant cousin of Winston and Diana and Anderson Cooper.

The Churchills are actually Spencers, since the male line of the Churchills died out long ago and the estate and the name passed on to their Spencer relatives.

[Mercat]

Been watching Jeeves and Wooster?

[Cecily]

Yes, and why doesn’t Bertie have a sillier nickname too?

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

“’I mean, none of us — not even the scientists — really knows the role of carbon in global warming, but who can complain about more trees? Also, this plan would demonstrate that the Left, who have really jumped on the green bandwagon, don’t have a monopoly on environmentalism.”

Based.