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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. Her first marriage to the 9th Duke of Marlborough has become a well-known example of the advantageous, but loveless, marriages ...
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.
1. She Was A Golden Child. In certain echelons of New York society—the upper ones—the birth of Consuelo Vanderbilt in 1877 was akin to the coming of a messiah. The eldest child and only daughter of the main Vanderbilt heir William and his wife Alva, Consuelo was all the hopes of the Gilded Age of America rolled into one.
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 28, 2023 · Consuelo Vanderbilt, 44, was born in New York City, in 1979, to Serena Vanderbilt Van Ingen and Brackenridge Costin. Vanderbilt told The Post that her mother was “a model;” her father has been ...
Consuelo Vanderbilt was born on March 2, 1877, in Manhattan, New York, United States, to railroad millionaire William Kissam Vanderbilt and his first wife Alva Erskine Smith. She was named after her godmother, half-Cuban and half-American socialite Consuelo Yznaga who, one year ago, had the socially advantageous marriage to George, Viscount ...
