Blenheim Palace, built for John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, ... Jennie Churchill, was the Brooklyn-born daughter of Leonard Jerome, a New York financier and speculator. ...

Winston Spencer-Churchill, a grandson of a Duke of Marlborough, was born there in 1874 to Lord Randolph Churchill and his American wife, Jennie Jerome, later known as Lady Randolph Churchill.

Tourism at Blenheim is hardly new. Thomas Jefferson stopped by in 1786 and wrote of the experience, "Art appears too much." A playfully disguised Jennie Churchill, before she was mother to a ...

The 1940 elevation of Winston Churchill to the premiership of ... in Blenheim Palace the grandson of the seventh Duke of Marlborough—was indeed the son of a Brooklyn, N.Y., native, Jennie ...