Sarah Churchill (1660 - 1744), Duchess of Marlborough, supervises the removal of fittings from the room at Kensington Palace, which she had occupied as lady in waiting to Queen Anne of England, 1711. The wife of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and a trusted confidante to Queen Anne, she was politically highly influential until her dismissal in 1711. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
