Today, young people mostly decide for themselves who they want to spend their lives with. In the past, however, parents ...

Schoolchildren lined the drive to Blenheim with as much fervour and joy as at any Royal wedding – it was almost a rerun of the excitement evoked by the 1895 marriage of the beautiful American heiress ...

Her name was Consuelo Vanderbilt, a rich-kid railroad heiress ... Massive crowds attended the wedding on the streets, it was ...

The Duchess, according to her friends, did not look a day older than she did when as Consuelo Vanderbilt she became an English peeress. She was accompanied on the way over by her mother ...

Tutored in several European languages for hours on end and strapped to a steel rod for posture, Consuelo Vanderbilt's childhood was anything but easy. (04:30) Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content ...

Consuelo Vanderbilt’s ducal marriage flamed out, and at its cancellation Alva testified that she had forced her child into it: “My hold on my daughter has always been absolute.” Finally ...

When Alva Vanderbilt divorced her husband in 1895, she survived the scandal and kept Marble House and custody of their three children, Consuelo, William Kissam Jr., and Harold Stirling.

Ahead of the publication of Blenheim, Lady Henrietta, an interior decorator, spoke with T&C about growing up in a palace, how her great-grandmother Consuelo Vanderbilt saved Blenheim, and what it ...

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