Foreign News: Duke Regularized

During the year 1932 that omniscient but intentionally delayed Vatican publication, the Acta Apostolicae Sedis (Acts of the Apostolic See) may be expected to publish a full report of a decree of annulment* between the Duke of Marlborough and his first wife, the onetime Consuelo Vanderbilt, news of which leaked out through profane channels last week.

Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of the late William K. Vanderbilt and the present Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, is alleged to have appeared before the Catholic Diocesan Court at Southwark, Eng., with her mother last July, and...

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