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Lord Randolph Churchill Lord Randolph Churchill
Blenheim Palace Blenheim Palace
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Blenheim Palace

Blenheim Palace
Winston Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace in the English county of Oxfordshire in November 1874. Blenheim Palace was designed in 1705 for John Churchill, the 1st Duke of Marlborough, as a reward from Queen Anne for his victory over the French at the Battle of Blenheim in Bavaria the previous year.
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United Kingdom; Vanbrugh, Sir John; Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer
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