#Sarah Churchill

[defensivelee]

behold the fruits of my labor: or, if TFC had an anime opening that was mostly just Shrewsbury.

((unmute if you will!))

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Dead Ringers (2023) - The Favourite (2018)

Parallels

(twitter link)

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Portrait of Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, christian Friedrich Zincke, 1722

[coquette2004]

The Stuarts and Friends: On Halloween

*Stay home and give out candy to the little kids*: James VI and I, Mary II, Hans William Bentinck, George of Denmark

*Go to a party*: Mary Queen of Scots, Anne of Denmark, Charles II, James Duke of Monmouth, Arnold Joost van Keppel, Sarah Churchill, John Churchill

*(And get drunk)*: Charles II, James Duke of Monmouth

*Wear a cute costume*: Catherine of Braganza, Mary of Modena

*Wear a sexy costume*: Mary Queen of Scots, Anne of Denmark, Anne Hyde

*Wear a really creative costume*: Charles II, Sarah Churchill

*Don't celebrate Halloween*: Charles I, William III, Anne Queen of Great Britain

*HAVE BANNED HALLOWEEN*: Henrietta Maria, James II

[death-isnt-surprising]

Sarah: You’re giving me a sticker? Anne: Not just a sticker. That is a sticker of a kitty saying “me-wow!” Sarah: I’m not a preschooler. Anne: Fine, I’ll take it back- Sarah: I earned this, back off!

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[ehnari]

I watched The Favourite yesterday, I liked it a lot! I will probably try to finish this someday, when I'm sure I can do it proper justice.

[boredofboredomyy]

Movie / Show alphabet -> F

The Favourite (2018)

Genre: Historical, Satire, Dark Comedy

[unwelcome-ephestion]

Fred Astaire and Jane Powell starred as siblings in Royal Wedding, but the above photograph is of Astaire and his love interest, Anne Ashmond, played by Sarah Churchill. And if you, like me, spent the entire film wondering where you knew Anne Ashmond from, boy will you be surprised. It's not her filmography, which is in fact very small. It's the resemblance that she bears to her father - Winston Churchill.

Sarah Churchill's career is by all accounts a very sad one; she made very few pictures, with Royal Wedding being the only one of much interest, and when she returned to the London stage in the 1950s, she struggled with alcoholism to the point of spending a period in Holloway Prison for her disorderly conduct. It's unclear from Royal Wedding, where her role is not large or varied enough to tell, whether her career was derailed only by addiction or by a lack of talent - it's quite possible that nepotism influenced her casting through her career - but it's certainly true that by the 1960s her acting career had declined to almost nothing. She died in 1982 at the age of 67.

[coquette2004]

Exactly what I thought. The whole "you look like a badger" scene seemed like she preferred Anne didn't go meet the ambassador and send her instead so she could gain more power.

Both Sarah and Abigail were manipulative in that film - actually, everyone except Anne was!

And Anne was plagued by ill health and heartbreak over losing all her family either to religious differences or death, I'm surprised she didn't go mad because I would have went insane a long time ago if it were me.

I mean, even if Sarah Churchill did love (not just romantically or sexually or platonically but LOVE, RESPECTFUL LOVE…over and above simple deference to a sovereign) Queen Anne, I don’t think I would call Sarah’s cruelty towards Anne ‘honesty.’ The Favourite certainly didn’t position it this way, at least I didn’t get that vibe. When Sarah says that her spite was merely the honesty that comes as a trapping of love, it wasn’t true. She had behaved horrifically, sometimes. And this is true to life, this is one of the reasons Anne came to unseat Sarah in the first place; because she was tired of being cut down in public, called pathetic for grieving for her children etc. Now, I love Sarah and in the film, she was even more compelling. But her jibes came from a not very nice place…she was a bully.

And I think, ultimately, the movie came to the same conclusion I have come to from reading about Anne’s life: regardless of her sexuality and her obvious longing for a woman that truly reciprocated her love, what Anne really wanted in her life was all the children she lost. I think that’s who she misses at the end of the movie….hence why the rabbits take hold of the whole screen. Sarah is merely another person who has left her and become dead to her, and Abigail is on the brink of becoming dead to her. Anne was so tired on her deathbed, physically and mentally. It was said that no one had ever welcomed death as much as she did. The loss…it just built up.

[defensivelee]

tfc may have been intended to make the marlboroughs look good but ngl it had the opposite effect on me 😭... john is so fucking stupid omggg

sarah tho they got me with her ngl if she told me to kill myself I would

[ariadneslament]

In honour of Olivia Colman's (belated) birthday, I want to remind you that The Favourite, the nasty fun of a film that brought her her first Oscar, is finally available on Netflix. Also, don't forget to buy the book that inspired the film!

(And it's "honour", dear auto-correct, with "U")

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24 settembre … ricordiamo …

24 settembre … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2022: Rita Gardner, Rita Schier, attrice statunitense. Il suo debutto nell’Off-Broadway nel 1958 e due anni dopo ottenne uno dei suoi maggiori successi recitando nel ruolo della protagonista Luisa in occasione della prima del musical The Fantasticks. Oltre alla sue numerose apparizioni teatrali a New York, recitò anche in numerosi altri teatri degli Stati Uniti. Apparve anche in diversi film e…

[coquette2004]

The Stuarts and Friends: Watching a Horror Movie

*Continuously ask questions about the plot, ruining it for everyone else*: George of Denmark, James Duke of Monmouth

*Scream mega loudly even when absolutely nothing has happened*: James VI and I, Mary II

*Ends up crying* - James VI and I

*"That's not even sca-" ends up screaming at jumpscare*: Charles I, Mary Queen of Scots, Sarah Churchill, Arnold Joost van Keppel, Anne of Denmark, James Duke of Monmouth

*Is silent throughout the whole thing, staring at the screen - no one can tell if it's because they're scared or they're enjoying it*: William III, Anne Hyde, Charles II, Mary of Modena, John Churchill

*Laughs like a maniac whenever someone dies - causing severe worry to everyone*: James II, Henrietta Maria

*Isn't even watching the movie, seeing everyone else (either out of terror or thinking they're all idiots)*: Anne Queen of Great Britain, Hans William Bentinck, Catherine of Braganza

[death-isnt-surprising]

Lady Marlborough: Why do you think I don’t love you? I do. I would kill for you.

Queen Anne:

Lady Marlborough: Ask me to kill for you. Queen Anne: …First of all, calm down-

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Blenheim

The palace remains the home of the Dukes of Marlborough, the present incumbent of the title being Charles James Jamie Spencer Churchill, twelfth Duke of Marlborough. Charles James succeeded to the dukedom upon his father's death on 16 October 2014. As of October 2016 the Marlborough have to tender a copy of the French royal flag to the Monarch on the anniversary of the Battle of Blenheim as rent for the land that Blenheim Palace stands on.[59]

The palace, park and gardens are open to the public on payment of an entry fee of maximum £32 as of September 2022 Several tourist entertainment attractions separate from the palace are the Formal and Walled Gardens, Marlborough Maze and the Butterfly House. The palace is linked to the Walled Garden by a miniature railway the Blenheim Park Railway. The public have free access to about five miles or eight kilometres of public rights of way through the Great Park area of the grounds which are accessible from Old Woodstock and from the Oxfordshire Way and which are close to the Column of Victory.

Lord Edward Spencer Churchill, the brother of the current Duke wished to feature a contemporary art programme within the historic setting of the palace where he spent his childhood. He founded Blenheim Art Foundation BAF, a non profit organisation to present large scale contemporary art exhibitions. BAF launched on 1 October 2014 with the United Kingdom's largest ever exhibition by Ai Weiwei. The foundation was conceived to give a vast number of people access to innovative contemporary artists working in the context of this historic palace. In September 2019 on the occasion of the opening of Maurizio Cattelan's show Victory is not an option, the palace was the scene of a robbery: unknown thieves entered the palace at night time just after the opening of the show and stole a golden toilet valuably installed by the artist in one of the bathrooms.

Blenheim Palace is a frequent location for filming. A survey in 2021 noted seventy one appearances in film and television, more than for any other English country house. The site offers a tour of the various filming locations.

A panoramic view of Blenheim Palace is above.

See also

Blenheim Palace in film and media

List of Baroque residences

Noble Households – book with Blenheim Palace inventory of 1740

Footnotes

^ "Blenheim". Collins Dictionary. n.d. Retrieved 23 September 2014.

^ "Blenheim Palace". World Heritage Sites. UNESCO. Retrieved 8 May 2010.

^ Voltaire wrote of Blenheim: "If only the apartments were as large as the walls are thick, this mansion would be convenient enough." Joseph Addison, Alexander Pope, and Robert Adam normally an admirer of Vanbrugh's also all criticised the design.

^ Churchill: Marlborough: His Life and Times, Bk. 1, 129

^ Chandler: Marlborough as Military Commander, 10

^ Holmes: Marlborough: England's Fragile Genius, 92.

^ Churchill: Marlborough: His Life and Times, Bk. 1, 164

^ Holmes: Marlborough: England's Fragile Genius, 126

^ Churchill: Marlborough: His Life and Times, Bk. 1, 240

^ Holmes: Marlborough: England's Fragile Genius, 194

^ Jump up to:a b c Stephen, Leslie (1887). "Churchill, John (1650–1722)". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 10. pp. 315–341.

^ "Writing table". The Royal Collection. The Royal Collection Trust. Archived from the original on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 20 October 2016.

^ Field, p. 229, 251–5, 265, 344

^ Jump up to:a b c d e Pipe, Simon (23 October 2007). "Woodstock's lost royal palace". BBC Oxford. Retrieved 29 November 2010.

^ Masset, Claire (2 February 2015). "The imaginative genius of Sir John Vanbrugh, architect of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard". Discover Britain. Retrieved 29 July 2018.

^ When the Duchess came to build Marlborough House, her London home, in 1706, she employed Sir Christopher Wren. She later dismissed him, The contractors took advantage of him. She personally supervised the completion of the house. See Marlborough House Archived 26 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine.

^ Colvin, p. 850

^ Jump up to:a b Seccombe, Thomas (1899). "Vanbrugh, John". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 58.

^ Jump up to:a b Baggs, A. P.; Blair, W. J.; Chance, Eleanor; Colvin, Christina; Cooper, Janet; Day, C. J.; Selwyn, Nesta; Townley, S. C. (1990). "Blenheim: Blenheim Palace". In Crossley, Alan; Elrington, C. R. (eds.). A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 12, Wootton Hundred (South) Including Woodstock. British History Online. London. pp. 448–460. ISBN 978-0-19-722774-9. Retrieved 22 September 2022.

^ Jump up to:a b Green, p. 39

^ "Inside Blenheim Palace, a dwelling fit for a duke". Globe and Mail. 28 September 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2018.

^ The arms of the Duke of Marlborough with the statue of Britannia above Compare with figures on Tomb of Giuliano de Medici, New Sacristy, San Lorenzo, Florence (Category:Tomb of Giuliano de' Medici); figures above Moses and the Brazen Serpent, Sistine Chapel ceiling (File:Michelangelo Buonarroti 024.jpg); Monument of the Four Moors, of Ferdinando I de Medici, Leghorn by Pietro Tacco (File:Livorno, Monumento dei quattro mori a Ferdinando II (1626) - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto, 13-4-2006 01.jpg); Coin of Marcus Aurelius, RIC III 1188, White Mountain Collection (File:Marcus Aurelius Dupondius 177 2020304.jpg)

^ "Blenheim Palace 12342". Country Life Picture Gallery. Retrieved 29 July 2018.

^ "Blenheim Palace". Patrick Baty. Retrieved 29 July 2018.

^ Games, p. 334

^ This clock tower, completed in 1710 at a cost of £1,435, was despised by the 1st Duchess, who referred to it as "A great thing where the Clock is, and which is Called a Tower of great Ornament (sic)".

^ "Clock Tower, Blenheim Palace". Getty Images. Retrieved 29 July 2018.

^ Mavor, p. 23

^ Holmes: Marlborough: England's Fragile Genius, p. 477

^ Historic England, "Blenheim Palace (1052912)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 16 October 2017

^ Jump up to:a b c d e f g Henrietta Spencer-Churchill

^ Vanderbilt Balsan.

^ Jump up to:a b c d e "Blenheim Palace: Floorplans" (PDF). Retrieved 29 July 2018.

^ Jump up to:a b c "The National Pipe Organ Register – Blenheim Palace: the Long Library". www.npor.org.uk.

^ "The National Pipe Organ Register – Blenheim Palace: the Long Library, Abbott organ". www.npor.org.uk.

^ "Blenheim Palace Organ Appeal". Archived from the original on 16 January 2013.

^ Jump up to:a b "The National Pipe Organ Register – Blenheim Palace: Blenheim Palace Chapel". www.npor.org.uk.

^ Bingham, p. 201

^ Walpole to George Montagu, 19 July 1760. Walpole was not pleased with "Vanbrugh's quarries", with the inscriptions glorifying Marlborough "and all the old flock chairs, wainscot tables, and gowns and petticoats of queen Anne, that old Sarah could crowd among blocks of marble. It looks like the palace of an auctioneer, that has been chosen king of Poland."

^ "Blenheim Part II Vision and egos". Record of a Baffled Spirit. 7 May 2015. Retrieved 29 July 2018.

^ "Oxfordshire". Fabulous Follies. Retrieved 29 July 2018.

^ "On the trail of Winston Churchill at Blenheim and beyond". The Telegraph. 23 January 2015. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2018.

^ Historic England, "Blenheim Palace (1000434)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 16 October 2017

^ "Designated Sites View: Blenheim Park". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 12 March 2020.

^ "2nd Duchess of Marlborough". Blenheimpalaceeducation.com. Archived from the original on 20 August 2008. Retrieved 12 February 2010.

^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). "Spencer, Charles (1706-1758)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 53. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

^ Soames, Mary (1987). The Profligate Duke: George Spencer Churchill, Fifth Duke of Marlborough, and His Duchess. Harper-Collins. ISBN 978-0002163767.

^ Purcell, p. 251

^ Until the 1880s, the Law of Entail severely restricted the ability of an individual to sell an inherited property, including books. The restriction could only be circumvented by resorting to, expensive, private civil legislation, as was the Blenheim Settled Estates Act 1880. The Settled Land Act 1882 made the provisions contained in the Blenheim Act more easily and widely available.

^ Klett, Jo; Hodgson, John. "Catalogue of the Sunderland Library". University of Manchester Library via Jisc. Retrieved 5 September 2022.

^ "Rubens, His Wife Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 9 January 2017.

^ "Rubens, His Wife Helena Fourment (1614–1673)". Metropolitan Museum. Retrieved 30 July 2018.

^ "Revised Management Plan" (PDF). Blenheim Palace. 2017. p. 26. Retrieved 30 July 2018.

^ Jump up to:a b c Tintner (2015), p. 144

^ Jump up to:a b c Cooper (2014), pp. 128–130

^ "MI5 In World War II – MI5 – The Security Service". www.mi5.gov.uk.

^ Andrew, Christopher (2009). The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5. Allen Lane. p. 217. ISBN 978-0-713-99885-6.

^ Raynor, G. "Former drug addict and ex-convict Jamie Blandford becomes 12th Duke of Marlborough after father dies". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. Retrieved 17 October 2014.

^ "Interesting Facts About Blenheim Palace". #GetOutside. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 20 October 2016.

^ "Tickets & Booking". The Blenheim Palace Heritage Foundation Charity. 2022. Retrieved 22 September 2022.

^ "Visit and Explore". The Blenheim Palace Heritage Foundation Charity. 2022. Retrieved 22 September 2022.

^ See Ordnance Survey maps via map sources: 51.852°N 1.372°W

^ Westall, Mark (23 July 2015). "Lawrence Weiner American artist and founding figure of Conceptual Art to be next artist at Blenheim Art Foundation". FAD Magazine. Retrieved 2 October 2015.

^ Kennedy, Maev (28 August 2014). "Ai Weiwei prepares for Blenheim Palace show but must keep his distance". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 October 2015.

^ "Lawrence Weiner. Within a Realm of Distance". 27 July 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2015.

^ "$5 million solid gold toilet stolen in "surreal" Blenheim Palace heist". De Zeen. 16 September 2019. Retrieved 29 April 2022.

^ "Blenheim Palace makes most TV and film appearances". Oxford Mail. 21 February 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2022.

^ "Blenheim... the ultimate movie palace". www.henleylife.co.uk. Retrieved 25 May 2022.

^ "Go 'on location' with Blenheim Palace's new film trail". Group Leisure and Travel. 8 January 2020. Archived from the original on 11 August 2020. Retrieved 25 May 2022.

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Further reading

Conniff, Richard (February 2001). "The House that John Built". Smithsonian Journeys. Archived from the original on 2 October 2002.

Cornforth, John (2004). Early Georgian Interiors. New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, pp. 275–9 ISBN 978-0-30-010330-4 OCLC 938151474

Murdoch, Tessa (ed.) (2006). Noble Households: Eighteenth-Century Inventories of Great English Houses. A Tribute to John Cornforth. Cambridge: John Adamson, pp. 273–83 ISBN 978-0-9524322-5-8 OCLC 78044620

Wallechinsky, David; Wallace, Irving (1981). "Excesses of the Rich and Wealthy: The Vanderbilts". The People's Almanac.

Text on the Column of Victory in the grounds of Blenheim Palace

Official website

Churchill by Oswald Birley - UK Parliament Living Heritage

Blenheim Art Foundation

Blenheim Palace at Cotswolds Website

"Blenheim Palace, Blenheim, Oxfordshire Gallery". Historic England 

. The Blenheim Palace Heritage Foundation Charity. 2022. Retrieved 2