Tuesday, September 26, 2006

 





Woodstock - Blenheim Palace -The first Duke of Marlborough was awarded the land and money to build this palace because of a successful military campaign against the French in the 1700s. Consuela Vanderbilt was bullied into marrying into the family in the late 1800s. She was a towering 6 feet and coined the term 'the heir and the spare'. Winston Churchill's mother was also an American heiress, the former Jenny Jerome, whose father made his fortune as a theatrical financier.

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