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Blenheim Palace

British

noun

a palace in Woodstock in Oxfordshire: built (1705–22) by Sir John Vanbrugh for the 1st Duke of Marlborough as a reward from the nation for his victory at Blenheim; gardens laid out by Henry Wise and Capability Brown; birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill (1874)

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His ancestral family home is Blenheim Palace in Woodstock – Sir Winston's birthplace - which is owned and managed by Blenheim Palace Heritage Foundation.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025

Months later thieves broke into Blenheim Palace in the U.K. and ripped out a functioning toilet made of 18-karat solid gold by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

It’s a replica of one that was stolen from England’s Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 1, 2025

A second solid gold toilet is to be auctioned off, after the first casting was stolen from Blenheim Palace in 2019.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025

Sir James Vanbrugh was building Blenheim Palace for the Queen's victorious general, and also Castle Howard.

From Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time by Litchfield, Frederick

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