Blenheim Palace had befriended the young Princess Anne and later, when the princess became Queen, the Duchess of Marlborough, as Her Majesty's Mistress of the Robes, exerted great influence over the Queen on both personal and political levels.
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Blenheim Palace was not to provide Vanbrugh with the architectural plaudits he imagined it would.
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Blenheim Palace has been Grade I listed on the National Heritage List for England since August 1957.
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The larger houses, like Blenheim Palace, had two sets of state apartments each mirroring each other.
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Blenheim Palace was the birthplace of the 1st Duke's famous descendant, Winston Churchill, whose life and times are commemorated by a permanent exhibition in the suite of rooms in which he was born.
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Blenheim Palace was designed with all its principal and secondary rooms on the piano nobile, thus there is no great staircase of state: anyone worthy of such state would have no cause to leave the piano nobile.
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Insofar as Blenheim Palace does have a grand staircase, it is the series of steps in the Great Court which lead to the North Portico.
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Blenheim Palace sits in the centre of a large undulating park, a classic example of the English landscape garden movement and style.
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Blenheim Palace was eventually forced to sell other family estates, but Blenheim was safe from him as it was entailed.
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Replenishing of Blenheim Palace began on the honeymoon itself, with the replacement of the Marlborough gems.
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Blenheim Palace was a place of wonder and prestige.
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Blenheim Palace died in 1964, having lived to see her son become Duke of Marlborough, and frequently returning to Blenheim, the house she had hated and yet saved, albeit as the unwilling sacrifice.
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Blenheim Palace remains the home of the Dukes of Marlborough, the present incumbent of the title being Charles James Spencer-Churchill, 12th Duke of Marlborough.
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Blenheim Palace founded Blenheim Art Foundation, a non-profit organisation, to present large-scale contemporary art exhibitions.
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