Consuelo vanderbilt biography
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Biography of Consuelo Vanderbilt Duchess of Marlborough
On 06 Nov Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill 9th Duke of Marlborough (age 23) and Consuelo Vanderbilt Duchess of Marlborough (age 18) were married at St Thomas' Church New York. She by marriage Duchess Marlborough. The marriage arranged bygd Mary "Minnie" Fiske Stevens (age 42) and encouraged bygd mother Alva Erskine Smith (age 42). The marriage was unhappy; they separated in and the marriage was annulled on 19th Augiust He the son of George Charles Spencer-Churchill 8th Duke of Marlborough and Albertha Frances Anne Hamilton Duchess of Marlborough (age 48). He a great x 5 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
The marriage settlement provided for the Duke to receive a $2,, trust that would pay $, per year. Consuelo also received a further $, per year. The combined annual income of $, (£40,) more than doubled the income the Duke had enjoyed from his estates prior to the marri
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The Glitter and the Gold: The American Duchessin Her Own Words
A new edition of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan's memoir—the story of the "real" Lady Grantham of Downton Abbey
Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful, and heir to a vast fortune. She was also in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to marry an English Duke. She sailed to England as the Duchess of Marlborough in and took up residence in her new home—Blenheim Palace. She was the real American heiress who lived long before Downton Abbey's Lady Grantham arrived.
Mme. Balsan is an unsnobbish and amused observer of the intricate hierarchy both upstairs and downstairs and a revealing witness to the glittering balls, huge weekend parties, and major state occasions she attended or hosted chronicling her encounters with every important figure of the day—from Queen Victoria, Edward VII and Queen Alexandra to Tsar Nicholas and the young Winston Churchill.
The Glitter and the Gold is a richl
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High Style in the Gilded Age: Consuelo Vanderbilt
Updated: Aug 26,
CONSUELO VANDERBILT BALSAN () - THE PAWN
Consuelo Vanderbilt was a willowy beauty of 17 when the year-old Frenchman and future aviation pioneer, Jacques Balsan, first saw her and fell in love. It would be nearly another 26 years before the two would finally marry in and Consuelo would find happiness with Jacques in France, and later in Southampton.
In the intervening years, both would marry others, Balsan would be celebrated for his record-breaking feats of aviation, while Consuelo would submit to the life imposed on her as the spectacularly rich and aristocratically groomed daughter of Alva Vanderbilt, a woman with obsessive social ambitions. While Balsan was being lionized as a hero, Consuelo was enduring a loveless marriage and lonely exile as the wife of a foppish English peer of the realm.
Consuelo’s mother, Alva, had married William Kissam Vanderbilt, the ri