The success of Castle Howard led Marlborough to commission something similar at Woodstock. Henry II housed his mistress Rosamund Clifford (sometimes known as "Fair Rosamund") there in a "bower and labyrinth"; a spring in which she is said to have bathed remains, named after her. "[39] Another of Vanbrugh's schemes was the great parterre, nearly half a mile long and as wide as the south front. Brown's great achievement at this point was to actually flood and submerge beneath the water level the lower stories and rooms of the bridge itself, thus reducing its incongruous height and achieving what is regarded by many as the epitome of an English landscape.

An optical illusion was created by tapering its walls to create an impression of even greater height. The chapel is perfectly balanced on the eastern side of the palace by the vaulted kitchen. James had been Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company (today North America's oldest company, established by royal charter in 1670), and with his succession to the throne, Churchill was appointed the company's third ever governor. [58], 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. Vanbrugh had wanted an obelisk to mark the site of the former royal manor, and the trysts of Henry II which had taken place there, causing the 1st Duchess to remark, "If there were obelisks to bee made of all what our Kings have done of that sort, the countrey would bee stuffed with very odd things" (sic). [23], In the design of great 18th-century houses comfort and convenience were subservient to magnificence, and this is certainly the case at Blenheim. [32], The internal layout of the rooms of the central block at Blenheim was defined by the court etiquette of the day. [14] It seems the unostentatious hunting lodge was rebuilt many times, and had an uneventful history until Elizabeth I, before her succession, was imprisoned there by her half-sister Mary I between 1554 and 1555. The bereaved Duchess complained of "the gloom and inhospitality of Blenheim" after his death, and soon moved out. She 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. The marriage was short-lived, however; the Duke died just six weeks later, on 11 March 1972. In the carriage leaving the church, Marlborough told Consuelo he loved another woman, and would never return to America, as he "despised anything that was not British". [10] As part of William III's coronation honours Churchill was created Earl of Marlborough, sworn to the Privy Council, and made a Gentleman of the King's Bedchamber. Having been foiled in her wish to employ Wren,[16] she levelled criticism at Vanbrugh on every level, from design to taste. Then, the Duke's coffin was returned to Blenheim from its temporary resting place, Westminster Abbey, and husband and wife were interred together and the tomb erected and completed. He died shortly before its completion. Also in the park, completed after the 1st Duke's death, is the Column of Victory.

[5] When Churchill returned to England, the Popish Plot resulted in a temporary three-year banishment for James Stuart, Duke of York. Vanbrugh's assistant Hawksmoor was recalled and in 1723 designed the "Arch of Triumph", based on the Arch of Titus, at the entrance to the park from Woodstock.

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