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Consuelo Vanderbilt-Balsan (formerly Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; born Consuelo Vanderbilt; March 2, 1877 – December 6, 1964) was a socialite and a member of the American Vanderbilt family.
Jan 8, 2021 · Consuelo Vanderbilt was a willowy beauty of 17 when the 26-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 1921 and Consuelo would find happiness with Jacques in France, and later in Southampton.
Consuelo Vanderbilt was the most famous “Million-Dollar Duchess”—but behind the glitter of her life lay a very dark secret.
Oct 28, 2023 · Consuelo Vanderbilt, an eighth generation descendent of the moneyed family, is freshly split from husband and looking for love also has criticism for cousin Anderson Cooper.
5 days ago · Consuelo Vanderbilt being called a “dollar princess” seems like a contradiction. The name Vanderbilt evokes visions of over-the-top Gilded Age marble mansions and vast wealth.
Consuelo Vanderbilt was an American socialite who became the Duchess of Marlborough through her marriage to the 9th Duke of Marlborough. Check out this biography to know about her childhood, family life and fun facts about her.
Consuelo Vanderbilt, born in New York in 1877 into one of America's wealthiest families, was the only daughter and one of three children of William Kissam Vanderbilt I and Alva Smith Belmont. Dominated by a mother she could not please, Consuelo was a precocious, introverted child, says biographer James Brough, "in the habit of searching her ...
Oct 21, 2016 · Those in the throng had come to witness the arrival of the bride and groom in the ultimate ‘celebrity wedding’: Consuelo Vanderbilt — young, beautiful, and one of the two wealthiest young women in the United States at the time, reputedly worth around $4 billion in today’s money — and Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, the 9th ...
Nov 13, 2019 · The delicate young bride was in love with another man — wealthy, but not a Duke. And she had a very forceful mother with an agenda. Alva Vanderbilt, the mother of the bride, broke into the highest ranks of New York society by building a spectacular mansion and giving the party of the century.
Feb 22, 2018 · Alva Vanderbilt had an ace up her sleeve – a way to not simply regain her standing, but to improve it. The scheme depended largely on her daughter, Consuelo,...
