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Alexander Pope once referred to it as “the
most inhospitable thing imaginable and the
Britain’s “Versailles” and Churchill’s Birthplace most selfish. . .I never saw so great a thing

with so much littleness in it. . .It’s a great pile of
stone without harmony or taste.”

“This is the finest
view in England!”

hat was what Lady Ran-
dolph Churchill recalled her
husband proudly proclaim-
Ting on a May day in 1874,
her first visit to Blenheim Palace.
“As we passed through the en-
trance archway and the lovely scenery
burst upon me,” she later wrote, “the
place could not have looked more
glorious, and looking at the lake, the
bridge, the miles of magnificent park.
. .and the huge and stately palace. . .I
felt awed.”
It was here, just months later, on
Nov. 30 (in a small, modest bedroom)
that she gave birth to her famous son,
renowned former British Prime Minis-
ter and World War II hero, Sir Winston
Churchill (portrayed in the recent
popular film, “Darkest Hour”).
In fact, the 187-room property,
just eight miles north of Oxford, and a
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