Jennie Jerome was married for the first time on 15 April 1874, aged 20, at the British Embassy in Paris, to Lord Randolph Churchill, the third son of John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough and Lady Frances Anne Vane.[13] The couple had met at a sailing regatta on the Isle of Wight in August 1873, having been introduced by the Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII.[14] Although they became engaged within three days of this initial meeting, the marriage was delayed for months while their parents argued over settlements.[15] By this marriage, she was properly known as Lady Randolph Churchill and would have been addressed in conversation as Lady Randolph.