Explore the locations of TV and film at Blenheim Palace
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3 7 Blenheim Palace, Park and Gardens have been Film locations Other films shot at Blenheim Palace include: used as a location for many exciting feature films Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation • The Lost Prince (2003) and television programmes. (Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, 2015) • The Four Feathers (Heath Ledger, 2002) The Palace’s impressive architecture and incredible The fifth instalment in the famous action film scenery have provided a stunning setting for classic period franchise sees a charity auction being filmed in • Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (Amitabh Bachchan, 2001) the Long Library and the Green Writing Room dramas and modern feature films. Some productions place provides the set for a crucial meeting between • The Avengers (Sean Connery, 1998) the Palace centre stage, but others feature small aspects the British Prime Minister and Ethan Hunt. • Hamlet (Kenneth Brannagh, 1996) you might not recognise at a first glance, such as part of a staircase or a glimpse of our maze. • Black Beauty (1994) 1 4 5 Film locations Discover the many film locations across the Palace, Park • Sherlock Holmes: Without a Clue (Ben Kingsley, 1988) A Little Chaos (Kate Winslet, Alan and Gardens and follow in the footsteps of the stars with Rickman, 2015) • Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (Robert Hardy, 1981) this dedicated trail. Two talented landscape architects become • History of the World, Part 1 (Mel Brooks, 1981) romantically entangled while building a (Simon Ward, 1972) garden at Louis XIV’s Palace of Versailles. • Young Winston Explore film locations inside the Palace Scenes were shot in the colonnades and • Barry Lyndon (Ryan O’Neal, 1975) Using the floor plan below and key of the Palace, make inside the Palace. The Great Hall was your way around the numbered rooms, where you will transformed with wooden scaffolding to look find the reference points highlighted. like the construction of Versailles, the Saloon was set for a dining scene and the First State Room was used as the King’s bedroom for the Did You Know? opening scene! In 2002 Walkers Crisps filmed 3 4 5 2 6 an advert with Gary Lineker 4 8 Film locations 1 and Victoria Beckham. The The Libertine (Johnny Depp, 2004) 7 advert showed Victoria One of Hollywood’s biggest names, Johnny Depp starred as John Wilmot, the 2nd Earl approaching the Palace in of Rochester, a 17th century poet and a ‘Cinderella’ carriage then 1. Great Hall courtier of Charles II who famously drank and running through the Palace 8 debauched his way to an early grave. Scenes 2. Green Drawing Room to sit on one of two thrones, 3. Green Writing Room were shot in the Saloon, Water Terraces, 4. Saloon South Lawn and along the West Colonnades. the first of which we are led to 5. First State Room Scenes had to be shot over and over again believe is already occupied by 6. Third State Room until Depp’s screaming fans could finally be 7. Long Library persuaded to stay silent during takes! her husband, David Beckham… 8. West Colonnades 1 4 Film locations Half a Sixpence (Tommy Steele with Bobby Kennedy on set, 1967) Arthur Kipps, an orphan apprenticed to the tyrannical owner of a business, has a sudden change in fate when his wealthy grandfather dies and leaves him a fortune. A dining scene was shot in the Saloon and other scenes featured the Great Hall and Grand Bridge. blenheimpalace.com