One of the most important people in Winston Churchill’s life was his sixth great-grandfather John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, who died more than 150 years before Winston was born.

Standing six feet and five inches tall, John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill was every inch a duke. He was born in 1926, at Blenheim Palace, the spectacular 187-room baroque behemoth ...

The 11th Duke of Marlborough, who has died aged 88, devoted his life to preserving his family seat of Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, for the benefit of future generations. After inheriting the ...

But now the new Duke of Marlborough has been named as a major beneficiary of his father’s £36 million estate – a conclusive sign of a reconciliation that would once have seemed unthinkable.

George Charles Spencer-Churchill, seventh Duke of Marlborough, of England, was married yesterday to Mrs. Lilian Warren Hamersley, widow of Louis C. Hamersley, who resides at... View Full Article ...

An imposing portrait of the Duke of Marlborough, presented to Winston Churchill in 1942 with slight reservations on the part of both donor and recipient, will go on display for the first time when ...

Vanderbilt, to Charles Richard John Spencer Churchill, the ninth Duke of Marlborough, have been completed. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

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A portrait depicting John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough (1650–1722), gifted to Sir Winston Churchill in 1942, was recently found to have been misdated, thanks to conservation work ...

However, the most infamous marriage of American money to British nobility was that of socialite Conseulo Vanderbilt to the 9th Duke of Marlborough in 1895. The bride needed to be locked in her ...

After years of exasperation over his antics, his father, the 11th Duke of Marlborough, has gone to court to try to make sure that when he dies his elder son will not get control of the family fortune.