Oak Bedroom
The Oak Bedroom, witnessed one of the most romantic episodes in the Spencer family history.
On 20 December 1755, John Spencer, later the First Earl Spencer and his fiancée Georgiana Poyntz slipped away from his 21st birthday celebrations to be secretly married in this room.
In 1934 Sir Winston Churchill slept in the Oak Bedroom, He was staying at Althorp whilst doing research for his book on the Duke of Marlborough. The Churchill family married into the Spencer family in 1699 and many of the treasures housed here today were inherited from Sarah Churchill, 1st Duchess of Marlborough.
The bed is an oak half tester dating from c1846. The ‘S’s on the curtains and bed were embroidered in the 17th century by Lady Dorothy Sidney 1st Countess of Sunderland and her ladies.