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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 · 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.
In fact, Churchill had been heir to the Duke of Marlborough until Consuelo and the Duke had their first son in 1897, and freed him to pursue a career in politics. Consuelo and the Duke had a second son in 1898 and she is said to have coined the phrase ‘an heir and a spare’.
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Starting in late August of 1895, Alva Vanderbilt accepted the Duke of Marlborough as her guest as she had always planned and began drumming up publicity for the marriage between her daughter and a British peer. Soon, Consuelo was going everywhere with the duke, with Alva giving lavish balls to show her daughter off to both him and society.
Consuelo’s catch was considered one of the finest—Charles Spencer-Churchill, the future Ninth Duke of Marlborough, who stood to become lord of Blenheim, an estate second only to Buckingham...
Impeccably educated and well traveled, Consuelo grew into a beautiful but melancholy young woman. In 1895, her mother arranged for her to wed the era's most eligible bachelor, Charles Richard John Spencer Churchill ("Sunny"), the 9th duke of Marlborough and a cousin and good friend of Winston Churchill. At the time Consuelo was deeply in love ...
May 18, 2018 · Many of the heiresses of the up-and-coming Gilded Age magnates were daughters of self-made men who didn’t have the social standing of longtime members of high society, and they had trouble gaining...
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