Sunday, November 29, 2015

Laura, Duchess of Manchester, and her non-relationship with the truth.



Sigh.  Laura is still ranting, publishing lies about Alex's first marriage to Marion Stoner Montagu on her blog.  This entry was made November 1, 2015. Laura should find another hobby and accept that she and Alex will never be respectable.

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The marriage to Marion Stoner took place.  It was legal and binding.  Marion fled after Alex attempted to shoot her with a spear gun after only a few weeks but no divorce was ever filed for or granted until 1996 three years after Alex had fraudulently married Wendy Buford in Orange County, California.

In 1984, because she was being threatened and stalked by Alex, Marion filed papers for a legal separation against her husband, who according to her testimony,  had abused her disabled daughter as well as abusing her.

Details, including the whole court transcript, are available on this site.   See legal papers at links below:

1984  

        March 
                17 - Alex Montagu Manchester marries Marion Johanna Stoner, the  never married
                  mother of two.    Marriage Certificate
        May 
               21 - Alex Montagu Manchester and Marion Johanna Montagu are separated after
                  incidents of violence directed against her children from her previous relationship
                  and her self.  Complaint, filed September 5th.  Police report filed.  Johanne Stoner
                  TheStoner Story 

Because his uncle, then the Duke of Manchester, Sidney Arthur Robin George Drogo Montagu, 11th Duke of Manchester was still living and could have had a child with his wife, Alex was not considered likely to succeed to the title.  His father,Angus Charles Drogo Montagu succeeded to the title of 12th Duke of Manchester upon the death of his brother
Angus Charles Drogo Montagu succeeded to the title of 12th Duke of 
                   Manchester upon the death of his brother - See more at: http://www.thedukeanddoxieofmanchester.info/p/time-line.html#sthash.EpanQDei.dpuf
Angus Charles Drogo Montagu succeeded to the title of 12th Duke of 
                   Manchester upon the death of his brother - See more at: http://www.thedukeanddoxieofmanchester.info/p/time-line.html#sthash.EpanQDei.dpuf
Angus Charles Drogo Montagu succeeded to the title of 12th Duke of 
                   Manchester upon the death of his brother - See more at: http://www.thedukeanddoxieofmanchester.info/p/time-line.html#sthash.EpanQDei.dpuf
on June 5, 1985 while Alex was facing criminal charges in Australia.  For more see Time Line.

In 1992 Alex moved in on Wendy so he could stop sofa surfing and to evade deportation.  If there is a victim in this entire story it is Wendy and her two children.   Having endured years of trauma, abuse and lies, Wendy discovered they had never been legally married after a lengthy divorce during which Alex tried to extract support from her and take the children from her in 2007 because each child was receiving support from the Manchester Trust. 

At his mother's insistence Alex finally signed divorce papers three years after he and Wendy were married in 1993.

Legal Records from Manchester Marriage to Wendy Buford and later Divorce from Marion Stoner Montagu:

1993  
            May
                   7 -Viscount Mandeville marries Wendy Buford, with whom he has been 
                   living for some time.  The couple are already engaged.  Wedding takes place at 211
                  W. Santa Ana Blvd., Santa Ana, 92701 Orange County, California.  A business
                  associate  of   Alex’s, John McDonald, acted as witness.  MarriageCertificate
         
               
15 -  Born:  Alexander Michael Charles David Drogo Montagu, Alexander Junior,
                   
to the Viscount Mandeville and his wife, Lady Wendy Montagu.
            
1996
           
August 
                        9 - Papers are filed for Montagu v. Stoner divorce 
                              Application for Non-Payment of Filing Fees  
          
September 
                       27
-Alex, at the insistence of his mother, Lady Mary Montagu, agrees to
                          cooperate in a  divorce from his first wife, Marion Stoner Montagu. He has
                          been bigamously married to Wendy Buford Montagu for over three years.
                             Although ordered to do so by his mother Alex does not repair matters and
                          remarry Wendy.
                              Record of Proceeding/Outcome Sheet 
           October
                        28 - Divorce becomes  absolute
                              CertifiedDivorce Decree

Alex did not tell Wendy and remarry her, leaving the children illegitimate in the eyes of the British court. 

1984  

        March 
                17 - Alex Montagu Manchester marries Marion Johanna Stoner, the  never married
                  mother of two.    Marriage Certificate
        May 
               21 - Alex Montagu Manchester and Marion Johanna Montagu are separated after
                  incidents of violence directed against her children from her previous relationship
                  and her self.  Complaint, filed September 5th.  Police report filed.  Johanne Stoner
                  The Stoner Story 
- See more at: http://www.thedukeanddoxieofmanchester.info/p/time-line.html#sthash.EpanQDei.dpuf

Sunday, November 15, 2015

Another lost opportunity for Alexander, 13th Duke of Manchester

 From: What about an Australian republic now? 


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The quote below is from the article discussing the possibility of an Australian Republic, an issue which sharply divides that nation.  It seems likely the author has visited this site. 



"I’ve got my own proposal. We have a republic (so the republicans are happy) but the ceremonial job of President (to replace the Governor-General) should be an Australian-born citizen who also has an inherited noble title – and there are quite a few of them. That way the monarchists will be happy – well, less unhappy – with the republic idea because they can still bow to the President and call him “Your Grace” or “My Lord” or whatever salutation is appropriate for the title.

Our most senior noble is Alexander Charles David Drogo Montagu, the 13th Duke of Manchester who was born in Australia in 1962 but has lived most of his life in the USA. He is, and has been, a cad and a scoundrel, marrying three times and accused, among other things, of bigamy, fraud and passing dud cheques. He has served jail time in the USA and once was expelled from Canada. He admits to being flat broke.

His younger brother, Lord Kimble Montagu, a Monash University academic, will inherit the title because the Duke’s children are technically illegitimate because of his bigamy. So, perhaps not His Grace the Duke for President."  

Her Grace, Laura, Duchess of Manchester, must be really annoyed.  What an opportunity - lost. 


Friday, October 2, 2015

The Duke of Manchester and the Red Dwarf

Below is a snippet from an article which came up in my Google Search Daily.  It lays out events and nicely illustrates the unreality and potential for loss which come with the territory when dealing with a psychopath, in this case Alexander, 13th Duke of Manchester.  Was ever a number so well assigned by fate?



Look over the TIME LINE to see what Alex was doing during this period.  He had  succceeded to the title of Duke of Manchester upon the death.  Instead of science fiction - fantasy they should make a movie from the Life of Alex, Duke of Derangement. 

2002 
        July  
                     25 - Died:  Angus Charles Drogo Montagu, 12th Duke of Manchester, at age 63 
                       Alex succeeded to the titles of 16th Earl of Manchester, co. Lancaster, title of
                     
16thViscount Mandeville, 13th Duke of Manchester, 16th Baron Kimbolton of 
                      Kimbolton. 

              
The fourth Montagu job began while the couple was living in Irvine in early
                 2002. Alex became a security guard for Nordic Security and drove a patrol car
                wearing a standard uniform. Excited by this, he became very wrapped up in the job.                         According to Wendy, Alex decided he was actually a police officer, buying extra
               uniforms in addition to a pair of handcuffs.

                       The handcuffs were used on Wendy, one evening as Alex dragged her down the
               hallway, bruising her badly during a disagreement. He lost the job because of an
               altercation while on patrol at a movie complex area in Lake Forest.

                       Wendy understood the event which ended this employment was an altercation
               with a woman manager at the Movie theater and the manager's boyfriend. Alex did
               not confide in her further except to say he needed to break up a fight. He told
               Wendy he was shoved and hurt on the job, evidently this resulted in a claim for
               workman's compensation. Wendy believes the job lasted perhaps, a month.

2003 - 2004
                 Alex, now Duke, decides he needs to upgrade his bodily appearance. 
                 While telling Wendy he has medical needs requiring back surgery he schedules
                       a colon  reduction to help him reduce his growing weight. 
                 This surgery took place at Tri-City Regional Medical Center.  Alex had a
                       bypass.
                 The source of the money was a claim against his previous employer. 

2005
         March 
                    
25 -  NBC News by Mike Taibbi  Jackson witness says he’s been threatened 
                        
Montagu claims caller has told him to stay away from trial.  
        
April
                    
20 - The Declaration made by Alexander, Duke of Manchester, on the abuse of
                         his son by Jackson was entered into the court record.
              
         The fifth job was his longest and lasted nearly two months. 
             Alex started training in November 2005 at Disneyland for the Indiana Jones Ride.

                 
Initially, he loved the work and made friends, occasionally having drinks after
           
work. But evidently this also meant he did not have the money to pay the mortgage 
           
on the house they had finally managed to buy. After the family was evicted from the
           
home Wendy had made for them the family moved to Laguna Niguel. This occurred 
           
around Valentine's day, 2006 while Alex was still working at Disneyland. This was the
           
last job except a possible short stint at MacDonalds on the fry machine. 
                According to Wendy she knew of no serious avocational pursuits which occupied
           
Alexander's interest.

2003 - 2004
                 Alex, now Duke, decides he needs to upgrade his bodily appearance. 
                 While telling Wendy he has medical needs requiring back surgery he schedules
                       a colon  reduction to help him reduce his growing weight. 
                 This surgery took place at Tri-City Regional Medical Center.  Alex had a
                       bypass.
                 The source of the money was a claim against his previous employer. 

2005
         March 
                     25 -  NBC News by Mike Taibbi  Jackson witness says he’s been threatened 
                         Montagu claims caller has told him to stay away from trial.  
         April
                     20 - The Declaration made by Alexander, Duke of Manchester, on the abuse of
                         his son by Jackson was entered into the court record.
              
         The fifth job was his longest and lasted nearly two months. 
             Alex started training in November 2005 at Disneyland for the Indiana Jones Ride.

                  Initially, he loved the work and made friends, occasionally having drinks after
            work. But evidently this also meant he did not have the money to pay the mortgage 
            on the house they had finally managed to buy. After the family was evicted from the
            home Wendy had made for them the family moved to Laguna Niguel. This occurred 
            around Valentine's day, 2006 while Alex was still working at Disneyland. This was the
            last job except a possible short stint at MacDonalds on the fry machine. 
                According to Wendy she knew of no serious avocational pursuits which occupied
            Alexander's interest.
- See more at: http://www.thedukeanddoxieofmanchester.info/p/time-line.html#sthash.RatdVTew.dpuf
From Red Dwarf, and the movie

The Duke of Manchester

"Whilst Naylor was in Australia, he got a call. The man on the phone claimed he had £60 million to invest in movies, and asked how much of it Naylor wanted. After careful consideration (“3 nanoseconds”), Naylor decided that £60 million would do just fine.
Naylor and the Duke agreed to meet, but then the Duke asked if Naylor could pay for his airfare and let him sleep on his couch.
Yeah.




However, after some research it was discovered there was in fact a Duke of Manchester (who knew?) and the family had moved to Australia at the beginning of the 20th century.
So, even that faint glimmer of hope was enough to convince them to keep on going. They asked to speak to the Duke's bank manager, but of course, he was a very busy man and couldn't possibly find time to speak a movie director on behalf of one of his multi-million pound clients.
They did manage to get the Duke to fax over a bank statement showing an account with 100 million US dollars (“completely faked of course”) and, finally, after he tried to convince them they were speaking with a famous Australian actress (“'I've got such a bad cold', she insisted, 'but I really am the famous actress'”) the dream finally plummeted...

...Back to Earth

Despite the proclamation that he hoped to miss the next Dimension Jump due to filming commitments, the Duke effectively signalled the end of the road. There were no more official updates, no more statements."

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Duke of Manchester is accused of being a bigamist twice over after marrying wife no.2 and wife no.3 while still married to wife no.1

From:  Daily Mail


COMMENT -  Well, you can't say Alex is inconsistent.  And it is nice to see Marion standing up for truth about Alex.   

By JENNIFER NEWTON FOR MAILONLINE


  • Marion Stoner married Duke of Manchester in 1984 but they split soon after
  • Only divorced in 1996 but he was then already married to Wendy Buford 
  • He later also divorced Ms Buford and married his current wife Laura Smith 
  • Now Ms Stoner claims their divorce was void as he forged his signature on paperwork 



The first wife of the Duke of Manchester has claimed her former husband has twice committed bigamy after he forged their divorce papers and wed his second and third wives while still married to her.

Marion Stoner tied the knot with the Australian-born Duke in Melbourne in 1984 but separated months later after he allegedly fired a speargun at her.

He then went on to marry his second wife, Californian law firm receptionist Wendy Buford in 1993, despite not divorcing Ms Stoner and they were only legally separated in 1996.  MORE

Saturday, March 28, 2015

When Alex Met Wendy – Or, the Psychopath Who Ate My Life.




Wendy and Alex met for the first time on April 17, 1992 at The Crazy Horse Restaurant and Night Club in Orange County. Alex saw her standing in line and came up to her and gave her his heavily gold embossed card with his title and, although she hesitated, she gave him her phone number. At the time, Wendy was 24 and had been working for eight years. She found her first job when she was 16 and still in high school. By working she earned enough money to buy a car and begin saving until she graduated. She was hired at age 20 as a receptionist at a prestigious law firm in Orange County.

She has worked nearly continuously and is highly valued at the firm as a reliable and dedicated employee. This was likely a large part of the draw for Alex. Wendy was attractive and her job brought in an income. She was steady and reliable and had an apartment and a car, all things Alex lacked – and best of all she was an American citizen.

Alex called her persistently asking her to go out with him. At the time he was sofa surfing at the home of Richard Gipe. This arrangement proved to be wearing for Alex's host and the Viscount found himself in need of alternate resources.

Because he had lost access to the car he was borrowing from Gipe's girl friend, Alex suggested he drive her to work, freeing Wendy's car for his use. Wendy reluctantly agreed. She had just finished paying off the vehicle to lower her expenses while she was off work.

By July, Alex had moved into Wendy's apartment, rapidly displacing her room mate with his behavior. Wendy had discovered she was pregnant and was not sure getting married right away was a good idea.

In March, 1993 Alex totaled her modest 1987 Nissan Sentra and insisted on 'buying her' a Jaguar, going out to choose it alone. This did not strike Wendy as an appropriate vehicle, but Alex ignored her objections. 


On May 7th Alex came home and insisted they be married immediately. Two hours later they were standing in front of a Justice of the Peace. Wendy had been planning a wedding after the baby was born and no one in her family was able to attend on only a few minutes notice. The ceremony took place at the Court House at 211 W. Santa Ana Blvd., Santa Ana, 92701 Orange County, California.  A business associate  of Alex’s, John McDonald, acted as witness. 

Wendy was told the emergency wedding was needed to avoid Alex being deported, but refused to tell her why.


Their son, Alexander Michael Charles David Drogo Montagu, Alexander Junior,was born on the 13th. As soon as she was home from the hospital Alex insisted they visit the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Field Office at 300 North Los Angeles St. Los Angeles, CA, and later an attorney's office in the Los Angeles area.

Alex was finally forced to come clean and tell Wendy he had written a bad check for the Jaguar.  Wendy was forced to borrow from her 401K to cover his bad check.  This proved to only the first of many such incidents. At the time, Wendy was on maternity leave from her work.  

Not long after giving birth to their son, Alexander, Jr., Alex started parking the new Jag in the garage at their apartment.  Alex knew, but Wendy did not, that “Cove Motoring” was trying to repossess the Jaguar until they came to the front door one night demanding the car.  Eventually, the car went missing, turning up, torched, in the desert. Wendy has always believed Alex did this himself.


Alex's unique scheme for financing automobiles continued throughout the marriage. Wendy would go to work and he would go shopping for cars.   He always assured her he had, “taken care of it, it’s all fine, the trust will pay for it…"   It was never true. Wendy always ended up having to cover the check, or co-sign for a car of which she had no prior knowledge. 

Looking at cars was a major focus for Alex, far more than finding, or keeping, a job.

1994 marked the first of the five jobs held by Montagu  during his second marriage. He was hired to drive the shuttle for Wyndham  Hotel in Costa Mesa late that year. The couple lived within walking distance. Alex,  Jr. was less than a year old and Wendy was working full time and taking care of  the household when she came home. This job lasted about a month, according to Wendy,  who remembers he was excited about the tips. She also noted losing this
job, or any of his subsequent jobs, was just was not his fault.


Montagu's second job lasted two weeks in 1995. This involved scraping barnacles off boats in Newport Harbor. Wendy had to drop him off and pick him up. There was no explanation as to why this job ended.

Wendy gave in to Alex's demand he, as the husband, control the money early in the marriage. This proved to be a devastating mistake which resulted in nearly yearly evictions from a constant series of homes. During the time they were together, 13 years, the couple was evicted twelve times.
This has also been true of Manchester's life during his third marriage and to present day.

Not mentioning inconvenient facts to Wendy was standard operating procedure throughout the marriage. In 1996 Manchester's mother, Lady Mary Montagu, finally persuaded Alex to cooperate in filling out the forms for a divorce from Marion Stoner Montagu, to whom he was still legally married.

Wendy remembered Lady Mary calling but was never told why there was a sudden, and temporary, increase in communication.

          

One of the few times Wendy remembers with happiness from her marriage, except for her children, was meeting Michael Jackson. Manchester routinely received invitations for official events from the British Embassy so the couple received one for the memorial service for Diana, Princess of Wales to be held in Los Angeles in September, 1997.

A mutual acquaintance, who knew Jackson was trying to find a way to attend the event, arranged for Michael to attend as their guest. So on September 13th the Viscount of Mandeville and Wendy, the Viscountess, rolled up to the St. James Episcopal Church in Los Angeles with Michael Jackson. After the service Michael returned with them to their hotel room and visited with Alex, Jr. Lord Alex spent his time videoing the game of hide and go seek which took place in their room at Hyatt Regency.

Alex immediately tried to sell Michael a plane, for which he hoped to receive a hefty commission. Jackson declined, but the star did invite the entire family to spend the day at Neverland on Martin Luther King Day the next January.

On June 16th 1999 the Montagu's second child, a daughter, named Ashley Faith Maxine Nell Beatrice Montagu, was born.

Alex had been asking Wendy to have more children but she felt they should have some stability before enlarging their family. Montagu's motive was monetary. For every child he received an additional monthly stipend from the Manchester Trust. Wendy never knew what Alex did with the money provided by the Trust, which Alex refused to discuss with her.

This same year Montagu found a third job, this one driving a limo for a company whose name
was something like “Five Star Limo,” according to Wendy. This job ended after less than a month when Alex ran over someone's foot.

On July 25th, 2002 Alex succeeded to his father's title, becoming the 13th Duke of Manchester, 16th Baron Kimbolton of   Kimbolton. Alex made one trip to England, alone. Otherwise, nothing changed.

In 2003 Wendy bought a car of her own car so she could be sure of having transportation.  It is paid for and she is still driving it today.  

Earlier, this same year Montagu found a fourth job. The family was living in Irvine. Alex became a security guard for Nordic Security and was allowed to drive a patrol car wearing a standard uniform. Excited by this, he became very wrapped up in the job. According to Wendy, Alex decided he was actually a police officer, buying extra uniforms in addition to a pair of handcuffs.

Deciding he needed practice using his handcuffs he clamped them on Wendy's wrists one evening, dragged her down the hallway, bruising her badly during a disagreement. He lost the job because of an altercation while on patrol at a movie complex area in Lake Forest.  During the altercation he was slightly injured.

The altercation was with a woman manager at the movie theater and the manager's boyfriend. Alex did not confide any further details with Wendy except to say he needed to break up a fight and was shoved and hurt on the job. His employment ended a short time later, the entire time of employment being about one month.

This resulted in a claim for  workman's compensation which produced enough money the next year to pay for a colon  reduction to help him reduce his growing weight. 
                
The surgery took place at Tri-City Regional Medical Center

He had told Wendy, who drove him, he was going in for an operation on his back. But the nurse turned to Wendy, giving her instructions for afterward for a very different part of the anatomy as Alex tried with his hands to signal the nurse to be quiet.

In early 2005 Michael Jackson, briefly, reentered their lives.

On March 25, 2005, Wendy began receiving calls from friends telling her Alex was on television, in fact, being interviewed on NBC News by Mike Taibbi. It had dawned on Alex he would be only one of two litigants in the case against Jackson instead of one of many. He also probably realized Wendy would not lie and could think of no way to keep her off the witness stand.

Alex, therefore, needed an excuse not to testify.

Wendy's friends asked her about the claims Alex was making, including being threatened by Jackson, being told to stay away from the trial, and his car and house being vandalized. Wendy told them she was not aware of any threats and knew, for a fact, the house and car were not damaged.

But on April 20th a Declaration made by Alexander, Duke of Manchester, on the abuse of
his son by Jackson was entered into the court record. No such abuse had taken place, and could not have, according to Wendy because Michael was never alone with Little Alex.

Lifw with Alex included the unexpected in many ways. In September or October of 2005 Alex announced he was going to England on important business with the Manchester Trustees. Wendy, always the dutiful wife, drove him to the airport having been told he would be gone a week. Left to arrange transportation for the kids to school and then care until she was home from work, her hands were full. Alex always left abruptly and Wendy eventually realized she really had no idea where he had gone.

Alex called her constantly. Later, Wendy began to understand he was checking up on her because he knew what he would do if left alone. So the calls began even before she was home from dropping him off at LAX. “Do you miss me?” he asked. Wendy responded she never had a chance to miss him.

On this occasion Wendy found out Alex was not in England through Norman Parker, a family friend who called one night to tell her he had talked to Alex in Nassau. Norman realized from her response this was news to her and attempted to cover for Alex, but it did not work.

Next time she and Alex talked she asked where he was. He lied, getting off the phone abruptly.

Finally home after a month he began unpacking his suit cases, one more than he had left with, to give the kids trinkets from his trip.

Fed up and angry, that afternoon Wendy began emptying the suit cases so she could do the wash. She found tee-shirts from Thailand and a package of condoms with two missing.

Confronted him about the condoms, he smirked. He liked it when he thought she was jealous. She she was asking herself, “Who is this man?”

Alex tried to tell her this was just his friends messing around. Noticing his passport, she grabbed in. She could see he had been to Russia, Nassau, and Thailand.

Outraged, she demanded answers to be told he can't tell her because he is working for the FBI. This, she does not believe. She tells him he is living in fantasy world. He tells her they were using him because he is so stupid. That, she could see, had the ring of truth.

Later, when Alex was threatening her with death by government assassination she called the FBI to be told they do not get involved in custody disputes and divorces. Alex would continue to tell people about his contacts at the FBI.

In November of 2005 Alex began training for what was to be his longest job, working at Disneyland on the Indiana Jones Ride, a far reach from being Mr. CIA Man.

Initially, Alex loved the work and made friends, occasionally having drinks after work. But evidently this also meant he did not have the money to pay the mortgage  on the house they had finally managed to buy.

After the family was evicted from their twelfth home in 13 years in Aliso Viejo the family moved to Laguna Niguel. This occurred around Valentine's day, 2006 while Alex was still working at Disneyland.

Wendy said there might have been a short stint at MacDonalds on the fry machine, but no other real jobs. But this did not mean Alex was not occupied. During the summer of 2006  Alex joined a dating site where he met Laura Ann Smith who he would marry the next year, several days after his divorce from Wendy was final.

It was during this period that Alex received the largest bounty he would ever get from the Manchester Trust, a share in the sale of the Manchester Jewels. Wendy would learn of this in court when Alex's bank records, which he thought he had adequately hidden, were produced for him to explain.

Early in December, 2006, legal separation documents are served on Wendy. This was news to Wendy, as Alex was still living together as man and wife on Prescott Street, Aliso Viejo, CA.  The papers had been issued 16th November 2006.
The Nightmare of the Divorce from Hell had begun.
Christmas 2006 was more like a bad horror movie than a celebration, though Wendy says every Christmas was similar.
After being served paperwork for a separation, Wendy tried to keep the holidays as normal and seamless as possible because she did not want Christmas ruined for the children.  For years Wendy had tried to have celebrations which included her mother and father but by 2006 Alex had finally succeeded in alienating her from her family. 

Alex's behavior had shocked and disgusted both of Wendy's parents.

Coping with Alex's dramas, which were always worse on holidays, became impossible, so Christmas became just the 4 of them.

That Christmas Day Alex was wandering around like a zombie, according to Wendy. At the time he was using an enormous amount of sleeping pills to, he said, cope with the painful memories of holidays he did not spend with his birth family.  Every year these serially repeated recollections would ruin Christmas Day. 

After 13 years of attempting to rectify this early deprivation by providing him an environment of family, friends and holiday traditions, Wendy thought he could have moved on from his childhood. There were new holiday traditions, children, and new memories to make with his own family.  But, no, it always had to be about him, no matter what the cost to his wife or children. 

That year Alex spent Christmas Day sleeping off and on, and stumbling through the house naked.  By the time dinner was ready and Wendy sat down with the children, they were still trying to wake him up to join them for dinner. 

Exhausted mentally and physically, Wendy remembered saying to herself, “I will not spend another Christmas like this again.” She had no idea she was going to get her wish. This would actually be their final Christmas together. 

As she and the children began to eat Wendy apologized to the both of the kids for how the day had gone.

Alexander, Jr. said to her, “why mom, it’s not your fault dinner is ruined”.  Wendy choked down her supper with an enormous lump in her throat. But January was even worse.

On January 5th Alex made a call to Wendy's workplace, informing the receptionist he had issued a restraining order against her. This was followed up with a call from the sheriffs’ department that this action had been filed and   she would be required to appear in court and answer to these charges. 

Wendy was stunned to learn Alex was claiming she had chased him around the house with a knife.  Immediately, Wendy complied with every thing the court asked her to do. She was evaluated by court appointed counselors to  determine if she was a fit mother. It was determined that she could have   unsupervised visitations with the children during the divorce proceedings but Alex refused to comply with the instructions of the court, himself. For months Wendy barely saw her children and all of the exchanges with the children were at the police  station.

Wendy was left with only the possessions in her purse when she left for work on January 5th. Her heritage china and crystal, her mementos from friends, family, and school were never returned to her or was her jewelry, most of it gifts from her mother and grandmother and valuable.

Living in a starkly unfurnished apartment Wendy thought of nothing but her children. Turning to her parents and family for support, she knew she could never go back to Alex, no matter what. During this time she endured bizarre emails from Alex, who she found was lying about her to everyone they knew and to the new acquaintances he was making. At the same time, he was attempting to get her to go back to him and realized this whole scenario was an attempt on his part of control her even more completely than he already did.

The Judge, having heard all the reports from the CPS evaluator and psychologist awarded physical custody to Wendy. CPS indicated that they had observed one of the worst cases of Parental  Alienation they had seen. 

On August 23 Alex was stripped of physical custody. He turned the children over to Wendy in their pajamas. They were permitted to bring nothing they owned with them. On the 30th of August the marriage between Wendy and Alex Montagu was dissolved, with some issues
reserved.
Although Alex, who the court discovered had nearly a million dollars in the bank, was ordered to pay for court costs. He was also ordered to pay both alimony and child support. This was accomplished by the Manchester Trust sending the funds directly to Wendy for herself and the children.

Alex, now single, was featured in an article titled, The Duke of Hazard. To the public he was a celebrity playboy.

Three weeks later, on September 21,  Alex married Laura Ann Smith, a spinster in her 40s whose father was a farmer in Michigan, where she grew up.

Visitation was a nightmare. All exchanges took place at the police station until Alex left the state. The reserved issues were heard on  September 15, 2008.



The next year, on June 5th, Wendy received a call from Alex that he had still been married to Marion Stoner at the time of their wedding in 1993. Their union was not legal and he had so informed the Manchester Trust.
The Trust was forced to suspend their payments because of Alex's  confession to them of his bigamy. 
The next two years were a financial disaster for Wendy and the children. But the Manchester Trust filed a suit to be heard in the High Court of the Chancery, London, on the issue of the children's legitimacy. On July 19, 2011 support for the children was restored. The court had found they had rights as beneficiaries.
The news media erupted with articles on the bigamist duke and his three wives, something Alex had evidently not anticipated. In complete consistency with his previous behavior Alex now denied having informed the Manchester Trusts and also that he had ever been married to Marion Stoner Montagu.
The children never saw their father again, though occasionally he would call them, attempting to manipulate them, issue threats and disparage their mother.


Wendy calls it the marriage, or unmarriage, from Hell.