Template:Wp-Frances Anne Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough

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Frances Anne Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, VA (15 April 1822 – 16 April 1899) was an English noblewoman, the wife of British peer and statesman John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough. One of her sons, Lord Randolph Churchill, was the father of Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. She had a total of 11 children, and her principal home was the monumental Blenheim Palace, which she rejuvenated with her "lavish and exciting entertainments",^[1] and transformed into a "social and political focus for the life of the nation".^[2] She was invested as a Lady of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert for her efforts at famine relief in Ireland.