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Há 4 dias · Blenheim Palace, residence near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, built (1705–24) by the English Parliament as a national gift to John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough. It was designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and is regarded as the finest example of truly Baroque architecture in Great Britain.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Há 2 dias · Marlborough Drift. We have dwelt herein on falsehoods known as Churchillian Drift. File this one under Marlborough Drift. Churchill was nevertheless under no illusions about the faults of his ancestor. “What a downy bird he was,” he wrote his wife in 1935…. He will always stoop to conquer.
Há 3 dias · General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, KG, PC (26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722 O.S. [a]) was an English soldier and statesman. From a gentry family, he served as a page at the court of the House of Stuart under James, Duke of York, through the 1670s and ...
- Elizabeth Drake
- Winston Churchill
Há 2 horas · Andrew Ian Henry Russell, 15th Duke of Bedford (born 30 March 1962) is a British peer and landowner. His main estate is based at Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire . He ranked 210 on the 2024 Sunday Times Rich List with an estimated fortune of £801 million.
- Lady Alexandra Russell, Henry Russell, Marquess of Tavistock
- Robin Russell, 14th Duke of Bedford
- Lord Howland (1962–2002), Marquess of Tavistock (2002–2003)
Há 2 dias · In 1961, Tina Livanos married the titled Englishman John Spencer-Churchill, the 11th Duke of Marlborough, with whom she remained married for ten years, divorcing in 1971. Only months later, Livanos did the unexpected, shocking everyone in Greece and internationally.
Há 5 dias · As an illustration of her occasional proximity to the centre of power, between meetings of the War Cabinet on 30 May 1940, when the Dunkirk evacuation was at its height, Spencer-Churchill was present when Churchill lunched with her parents and the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough.
Há 5 dias · When the manor of Theobalds was surveyed by order of parliament, in 1650, the manerial profits were valued at 12l. 2s. 4d. the rent of the lands was 275l. 7s. per annum; the improvements were estimated at 152l. 14s. 7d. per annum (fn. 10). Old site of the manor. Building of Theobalds house.
