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Lady Randolph & Winston Churchill on Blenheim
I am asked what Churchill wrote and thought about his birthplace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire. The first words I recall are those of his mother Jennie: “with pardonable pride.” They occur early in The Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill (1908). I always loved her description. One regrets the decline of people who can write like Jennie. She ranked with Lady Diana Cooper, and I think her son’s writing talent was inherited from her.…