Word: blenheim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be all we should have of it, except 40 millions of debts and three other wars that have grown out of it." Dramatic criticism? Cymbeline seemed "as long as if everybody in it really went to Italy in every act, and came back again." Interior decoration? "Blenheim looks like the palace of an auctioneer who has been chosen King of Poland." But there are the big set pieces too-the coronation of George II, the beheading of the Jacobite lords...
Died. The Duchess of Marlborough (née the Hon. Mary Cadogan), 61, daughter of an ancient Welsh house, wife of the tenth Duke of Marlborough, frequent hostess to Britain's royal family as mistress of stately Blenheim Palace, birthplace of her cousin by marriage, Sir Winston Churchill; after a long illness of an undisclosed nature; in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England...