Blenheim scion ‘Speggy’ to wed tattooed snapper

WHILE the man destined to be Duke of Marlborough, Jamie Blandford, was battling addictions to heroin and cocaine and enduring three spells in prison, there was ill-founded speculation that his younger half-brother, Lord Edward Spencer-Churchill, could be handed Blenheim Palace instead of him.

Happily, Jamie has since conquered his demons and duly inherited the 11,500-acre family estate in Oxfordshire where Sir Winston Churchill was born.

Venture capitalist Lord Edward, 43, may lack a stately home, but I can reveal he has acquired a beautiful fiancee. ‘Speggy’, as the Old Etonian is known to his chums, is engaged to German-born photographer ‘Kimi’ Hammerstroem (together left), who has an unconventional streak.

Her tattoos include a butterfly inked when she was 16 and the title of a song by The Smiths, There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, around her wrist.

‘Yes, he’s engaged,’ confirms his interior designer aunt, Jane Churchill, at the JC Home launch party at George Club in Mayfair.

It should be the summer’s liveliest wedding: Speggy is a pal of American rapper P. Diddy and his exes include Jonathan Aitken’s love-child, Petrina Khashoggi, and Nat Rothschild’s former wife, Annabelle Neilson.