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Anne Spencer, Countess of Sunderland (née Lady Anne Churchill; 27 February 1683 – 15 April 1716), was an English court official and noble. She held the office of Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Anne from 1702 to 1712. Life. She was the third daughter of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and the former Sarah Jenyns (Jennings).
- 27 February 1683
- Brington, Northamptonshire
- 15 April 1716 (aged 33)
Sarah Churchill, Duquesa de Marlborough. Anne Churchill ( 27 de fevereiro de 1683 - 15 de abril de 1716) foi a segunda filha de John Churchill, 1.º Duque de Marlborough e de sua esposa, Sarah Jennings. Entre seus descendentes estão sir Winston Churchill (de seu filho Charles) e Diana, Princesa de Gales (de seu filho John).
When Lady Anne Churchill was born on 27 February 1682, in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, her father, General John Churchill 1st Duke of Marlborough, was 31 and her mother, Sarah Jennings Duchess of Marlborough, was 21. She married Charles Spencer on 2 January 1699, in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Power Behind The Throne: Queen Anne
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Sarah Jennings was born on 5 June 1660, probably at Holywell House, St Albans, Hertfordshire. She was the daughter of Richard Jennings (or Jenyns), a Member of Parliament, and Frances Thornhurst (daughter of Susanna Temple, a maid of honour of Anne of Denmark). Her paternal grandfather was Sir John Jennings, father of an extraordinarily large famil...
In 1702, William III died, and Anne became queen. Anne immediately offered John Churchill a dukedom, which Sarah initially refused. Sarah was concerned that a dukedom would strain the family's finances; a ducal family at the time was expected to show off its rank through lavish entertainments. Anne countered by offering the Marlboroughs a pension o...
Abigail Masham: political rival
The Duchess had previously introduced her impoverished cousin, then known as Abigail Hill, to court, with the intention of finding a role for her. Abigail, the eldest daughter of the Duchess's aunt, Elizabeth Hill (Jennings), was working as a servant to Sir John Rivers of Kentwhen the Duchess first learned of her existence. Because the Duchess's grandfather Sir John Jennings had fathered twenty-two children, she had a multitude of cousins and did not know them all. Out of kindness and a sense...
Strained relationship
In July 1708, the Duke of Marlborough and his ally Prince Eugene of Savoy won a great victory at the Battle of Oudenarde. On the way to the thanksgiving service at St Paul's Cathedral, the Duchess of Marlborough engaged in a furious argument with the Queen about the jewels Anne wore to the service, and showed her a letter from the Duke which expressed hope that the Queen would make good political use of the victory. The implication that she should publicly express her support for the Whigs of...
Final dismissal
The Duchess's last attempt to re-establish her friendship with Anne came in 1710 when they had their final meeting. An account written by the Duchess shortly afterwards shows that she pleaded to be given an explanation of why their friendship was at an end, but Anne was unmoved, coldly repeating a few set phrases such as "I shall make no answer to anything you say" and "you may put it in writing".[citation needed] The Duchess was so appalled by the Queen's "inhuman" conduct that she was reduc...
The Duchess and Queen Anne never made up their differences, although one eyewitness claimed to have heard Anne asking whether the Marlboroughs had reached the shore, leading to rumours that she had called them home herself. Anne died on 1 August 1714 at Kensington Palace; the Protestant Whig Privy Councillors had insisted on their right to be prese...
The Duke of Marlborough died at Windsor in 1722, and the Duchess arranged a large funeral for him. Their daughter Henrietta became duchess in her own right. The Dowager Duchessbecame one of the trustees of the Marlborough estate, and she used her business sense to distribute the family fortune, including the income for her daughter Henrietta. The D...
Although the Duchess of Marlborough's downfall is chiefly attributed to her own self-serving relationship with Queen Anne, she was a vibrant and intelligent woman who promoted Anne's interests when she was princess.However, she found Anne a dull conversationalist and the Duchess did not find her company stimulating. The Duchess believed that she ha...
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough's children who survived childhood married into the most important families in Great Britain:
In her own time, Sarah Churchill was satirised by many well-known writers in the period, such as Delarivier Manley in her influential political satire, The New Atalantis (1709), and also by Charles Gildon in the first fully-fledged it-narrative in English, The Golden Spy; or, A Political Journal of the British Nights Entertainments(1709), to name j...
"Archival material relating to Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough". UK National Archives.- Caspar Henning
- Blenheim Palace
A segunda filha, Lady Anne Churchill, casou-se com Charles Spencer, 3.º Conde de Sunderland (1674–1722), e desse casamento descendem os modernos duques de Marlborough. Eles originalmente usaram o sobrenome Spencer , ao invés de Churchill ; mas George Spencer, 5° Duque de Marlborough, obteve uma licença real para assumir e ...
His second wife was Lady Anne Churchill, the second daughter of the distinguished soldier John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. After Churchill's death in 1722, the Marlborough titles first passed to his eldest daughter Henrietta (1681–1733), then to Anne's second son, Charles.
Lady Anne Churchill (1683-1716) was the daughter of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and Sarah Jenyns. She married Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, son of Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland and Lady Anne Digby, on 2 January 1699/0. She died on 15 April 1716 at age 33, buried on 24 April 1716 at Brington, Northamptonshire ...
