Marriage
After Wilde's death, Douglas established a close friendship with Olive Eleanor Custance, an heiress and poet. They married on 4 March 1902 and had one son, Raymond Wilfred Sholto Douglas (17 November 1902 – 10 October 1964) who was diagnosed with a schizo-affective disorder at the age of 24, and died unmarried at 61, in a mental hospital.
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