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Consuelo Vanderbilt-Balsan (formerly Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; born Consuelo Vanderbilt; 2 March 1877 – 6 December 1964) was an American socialite and member of the 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.
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 .
Consuelo Vanderbilt was a prominent American socialite and member of the wealthy Vanderbilt family in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Consuelo was known for her philanthropy and social activism, dedicating her time and resources to various charitable causes throughout her life.
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 ...
Jan 31, 2024 · 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.
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, who had just reached marrying age...
Jan 25, 2022 · Consuelo Vanderbilt, born in New York in 1877, was the first child of William Kissam Vanderbilt (grandson of the Commodore, Cornelius Vanderbilt) and his first wife, Alva Erskine Smith. W.K. Vanderbilt inherited a boatload of family money and took control of the Vanderbilt railroad empire.
The fifth lecture on women of the Gilded Age in Southampton will focus on Consuelo Vanderbilt, who was born into great wealth and privilege but was a pawn in the hands of her obsessively...
