#Sarah Duchess of Marlborough

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John, Lord Hervey, Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second from His Accession to the Death of Queen Caroline

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

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i don't want to dwell so much on the uhhh present happenings, but coincidentally i was looking thru what's labeled as 'the elections' portion of the duchess of marlborough's correspondence, where i found a letter addressed to her by mary, countess cowper. not so long ago, actually, just october 23rd....1710 :3

in it lady cowper briefly mentions adelhida talbot, the duke of shrewsbury's wife! she was known to be very outspoken and bold and flirty, to the point she annoyed even sarah. some additional context to this is the fact that she was also a fine entertainer in her own home and adored parties and companyyyy (･ω<)☆

this is what lady cowper has to say:

Your description of the Duchess of Shrewsbury is very good. I have heard much such an account of her, only with this addition. My Lord Duke looking a little grave, she chucked him several times under the chin, bidding him look up amongst all the company. She is a great honour to a court.

when i tell you this woman had a STRANGLEHOLD on her husband (ノ*°▽°*) !!!

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Queen Anne: They don’t make them like me no more. I’m the last of my kind.

Lady Marlborough:  Thank god.

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Happy 34th birthday to Princess Eugenie of York!

Born 23 March 1990, Eugenie Victoria Helena is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York, and a niece of King Charles III. At birth, she was 6th in the line of succession to the British throne and is now 11th.

Born in Portland Hospital, London, Eugenie attended St George's School and Marlborough College before studying at Newcastle University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in English literature and history of art. Eugenie also works privately with a number of charitable organisations, including Children in Crisis and Anti-Slavery International.

The Duke of York's Office at Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank on 22 January 2018. The couple had been dating for seven years, and were engaged on vacation in Nicaragua. In April 2018, the couple moved from St James's Palace and took up residence in Ivy Cottage at Kensington Palace. The wedding took place at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on 12 October 2018.

The Brooksbanks have two sons. The first, August Philip Hawke Brooksbank, was born on 9 February 2021 at the Portland Hospital in London. Eugenie gave birth to a second son, Ernest George Ronnie Brooksbank, on 30 May 2023.

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Tiered Garden at Chilworth Manor, Surrey, UK. Developed in 1725 by the widowed Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (seen in The Favourite).

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Susan Hampshire as Sarah Jennings Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough and John Neville as John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough in "The First Churchills"

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Do you have any particular thoughts about Anne’s feud with William and Mary?

Eſteem'd Anon,

that indeed I do! I do wonder what to call the situation at hand, though, because "Anne's feud with William and Mary" does sound rather like a one-sided grudge.

In any case, regardless what we might call the situation, I think what's at the core is a much more complex dynamic than one against the other (two). it was profoundly sad, and profoundly tragic for all involved.

From Anne's perspective, William had 'stolen' her sister so to speak and taken her away to the Netherlands when she had still been a child; the separation had hurt both sisters greatly, who had only ever, their governess aside, really had had each other growing up, seeing as their mother died young, and Charles II had seen to it that the potential heirs to the throne had been raised away from their parents to prevent them raising their daughters as Catholics.

Anne and William apparently disliked one another enough that they were not above the occasional pettiness, as Sarah, the Duchess of Marlborough recorded:

I would cast doubt on whether William, who according to Sarah was unaware of Anne's pregnancy craving, purposefully ate the entire plate to spite her, but one can easily see that the two of them did not see eye to eye, nor made any effort to.

Petty disputes over peas and unflattering nickname's such as Anne's "Dutch Abortion" for William aside, one thing that really complicated the relationship between Anne and Mary and William, was Anne's only surviving son William Henry, Duke of Gloucester.

From the first day of his life on, Anne knew that her son would, in his capacity as heir presumptive, never quite be her own, as even the circumstances of his birth illustrate: both the King and Queen were present for the birth, with Mary remaining at her sister's side throughout and William being ushered in just moments before the baby was born, so as to avoid any speculations of the sort that had sparked the eventual downfall of Mary's and Anne's father James II at the birth of their half-brother, James Francis Edward Stuart.

To have one's disliked brother-in-law watch as you give birth, in a state of undress and in a vulnerable and potentially medically dangerous position cannot possibly have a positive influence on an already strained personal relationship.

And matters did not improve as the baby grew up: Anne's closest confidante Sarah, the Duchess of Marlborough, reports in her memoirs that Anne felt treated badly, overlooked and overridden in her position as a mother by Mary, who considered the Duke, heir apparent to the throne, as much her own as Anne's responsibility and would send in people to look at the baby and report back to her whenever he was sick, using her authority to make Anne grant these people access to the nursery:

One can tell that Mary did not mean any harm to her sister but acted out of concern for the nephew in whom she may have seen a sort of ersatz for the children she had never been able to conceive (and which weighed heavily on her mental health), but it is just as easily to see why that kind of behaviour strained her relationship with Anne, who must have felt as if her only worth to her sister and brother-in-law was providing them with a child to raise as their eventual successor, totally ignoring her both as a mother, and as the then-first-in-line to the throne.

Naturally, the situation did not get any less complicated when the little Duke of Gloucester was growing up and William, then widowed, insisted on handing his education over to male tutors, a situation which has often been represented as a power struggle akin to a custody battle between William and Anne (which it, according to the ways boys were raised at the time was not, but may have felt so for Anne regardless).

The rather tragic battle over the Duke of Gloucester aside, I think it cannot be stressed enough that William and Anne in particular were simply just two people who did just not harmonise well.

They had different political outlooks, different friend circles, bar a few exceptions, and both likely regarded the other jealously as a potential threat to their respective relationship with Mary, whom they both loved.

Mary on the other hand had quite simply ceased to be who she was at fifteen, when she was married off, and both she and Anne had been shaped by their respective experiences that rather caused them to drift apart as adults than reconnect.

As co-monarch with William, she naturally tended to side more often with him than with Anne when it came to political measures impacting her, which further strained their already tense relationship.

Another factor that played, particularly on William's part, an important role in wanting to keep Anne as far removed from funds and political influence as possible, was his own shaky enough claim to the title of King with Anne technically being ahead of him in the line of succession. Not being granted funds, her husband kept barred from any active military service and the use of certain royal residences denied, one can see why Anne may have been frustrated with William and Mary.

Matters reached their climax when in 1692, William and Mary suspected Anne to be part of a Jacobite plot, and Anne's privileges were pruned.

To cut my rambling thoughts short here, I think it boils down to several tales that are as old as time; namely, in-laws not getting along, and that no dynamic among people, particularly within a family, has ever been improved by adding a power dynamic to it.

In the end, it was a sad situation for all involved, marked by repeated tragic losses, with no real winners, and no more or less innocent, or guilty parties. They were adults who had allowed an unhealthy dynamic built on shaky, sometimes sour relationships, reach the point of no return.

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The Duke of Marlborough, quoted in Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough ed. William King

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I want to point out Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, back in the late 1600s and very early 1700s. Just on principle as a lesbian, since this thread (though awesome!), is skewing very MLM. But I think I missed my chance, since the most recent reblog references events several thousand years ago. Alas, Anne and Sarah are too recent to fit in chronologically with the theme of this thread. Oh well!

Rocky Horror is turning 50 next month and people still act like being gay was invented by Ellen in 1997

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REBLOGS: FILMS: THE FAVOURITE (2018) SHORT FILM: WIRE CUTTER FILM: THE SWEET THING (2002)

The Favourite is a 2018 period black comedy film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara.

The American Film Institute named The Favourite one of the top ten films of 2018 and since its release, it has been assessed as one of the best films of the 21st century.

Take it from the horses mouth: if you are a history buff, Lanthimos, the director of the film, said: "Some of the things in the film are accurate and a lot aren't."

source hafael-archive origin Feb 14, 2019

The film is set in early 18th century Great Britain, it examines the relationship between cousins Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough and Abigail Hill as they vie to be court favourite of Queen Anne. Wikipedia

The Favourite (2018) - IMDb 7'5

animated shortfilm classic. Wire Cutters from Jack Anderson

Take notice: Jack Anderson - IMDb

Jack Anderson is a director and animator from Minneapolis, MN. His debut short "Wire Cutters" won numerous awards including being nominated for the Student Academy Award and the Student BAFTA. Jack majored in Digital Arts at Dodge College of Film and Media Arts in Orange, CA. He now works in advertising.

The short tells the story of a chance encounter between two mining robots on a desolate planet, the film is a dialogue free tale that hooks you with both its strong sense of technical craft and defined mood.

source: great-shortmovies origin: Mar 22, 2017

Recomendad reading: Wire Cutters by Jack Anderson | Sci-Fi Short Film (shortoftheweek.com)

As Anderson relates, “My biggest inspiration for the story was to show how us humans are constantly ruining relationships over the smallest things. This is something everyone’s done so I wanted to encapsulate it in a very contained fable. It ends up being a pretty universal thing people can connect to.”

The Sweetest Thing is a 2002 American romantic comedy film directed by Roger Kumble and written by Nancy Pimental, who based the characters on herself and friend Kate Walsh. Wikipedia

The Sweetest Thing (2002) - IMDb 5'2

A WORD: It was among Ebert & Roeper's "Worst of 2002", in the category "Big Stars in Big Bombs".

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The film was released on April 12, 2002 and received negative reviews from critics. However, according to screenwriter Nancy Pimental, the film later went on to gain a cult following.

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YAY, I made a lady marlborough playlist, BECAUSE I HAVEN'T FOUND ANY PLAYLISTS WITH HER OR WITH THIS MOVIE. only the OST PLAYLIST. what a shame........

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biographers be gettin too serious with their titles if i were to write a bio on james 2 i would name it 'where the hoes at? cocky want boing boing'