{"id":3853,"date":"2020-01-07T13:45:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T18:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/?p=3853"},"modified":"2022-02-09T22:04:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T03:04:57","slug":"women-westminster-capability-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/?p=3853","title":{"rendered":"Women, Westminster, & Capability Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday I discovered a woman-owned and operated company, Women of London<\/a>, that offers tours of monuments in London honoring women. I’m going to see how expensive a private tour is since it’s rain or shine and I honestly don’t know if I could or should manage a 2+ hour walking tour in the rain. The regular tour is \u00a320 so it might be feasible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I definitely want to book a tour of Westminster Abbey <\/a>by a verger and the upstairs\/downstairs Blenheim Palace tours. Westminster Abbey stopped online booking at the end of March. I’ll have to wait a couple of weeks.

Blenheim Palace is vast,<\/a> and a tour will help orient me, plus if done well is just the sort of historical gossip I enjoy. My historical knowledge is limited to the movie The Favourite, a ‘punk Restoration romp’ that centers on the relationship of the Duchess of Marlborough and Queen Anne. My other connection is my Cavalier Blenheim Cavalier spaniel. A regal little goofball o’ fluff.

Interesting connection, the landscape of Blenheim was designed by Capability Brown, and there is a memorial fountain dedicated to him in Westminster, appropriately enough in the center of a green space inside the cloister. It’s inscribed with this delightful Walpole quote;
“With one lost paradise the name
Of our first ancestor is stained;
Brown shall enjoy unsullied fame
For so many a paradise regained”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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