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Feb 20, 2016 · The couple: Consuelo Vanderbilt and Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough When: 1895 Where: New York—the ceremony at St. Thomas Church, and the reception at Mrs. Vanderbilt’s...
Feb 22, 2018 · American Experience | PBS. 285K subscribers. Subscribed. 11K. 1.5M views 6 years ago. Alva Vanderbilt had an ace up her sleeve – a way to not simply regain her standing, but to improve it. The...
Jan 8, 2021 · In 1894, Alva and William Vanderbilt separate, with unpleasant consequences for Consuelo. Alva, having satisfied her own social ambitions as a Vanderbilt, is able now to turn her laser focus on marrying Consuelo into the highest European society.
Aug 13, 2013 · August 13, 2013. From “The Marlborough-Vanderbilt Wedding” Chicago Tribune, 1895. Consuelo Vanderbilt’s wedding day had finally arrived, and all of New York (and then some) was...
Nov 6, 2023 · Socialite Consuelo Vanderbilt wed the 9th Duke of Marlborough on November 6, 1895—a match made not in heaven, but in the scheming hands of the bride's mother, Alva. Learn more about the machinations of New York society in THE GILDED AGE, now streaming on YouTube, PBS.org and the free @PBS App. #GildedAgePBS
Feb 19, 2006 · There could be no dispute that Vanderbilt gold was a powerful chemical element at work in St Thomas Church on 6 November 1895. It had given the bride her singular aura; it had drawn a duke from...
Feb 5, 2006 · In 1895, on the eve of Consuelo Vanderbilt’s marriage to the ninth Duke of Marlborough, the New York World published a concise reference chart: the bride, at eighteen years old, weighed a...
