Consuelo Vanderbilt
American socialite (1877-1964) · United States · On the map · Business Professionals · Died at 87
Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan was an American socialite. She was a member of the Vanderbilt family and only daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt and Alva Erskine Smith.
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Consuelo as a teenager (c. 1890s)
The Duchess of Marlborough, by Carolus-Duran (1895)
Consuelo and Winston Churchill at Blenheim Palace (1902)
The Duchess of Marlborough, by Paul César Helleu (c. 1903)
Consuelo (c. 1910)
Consuelo's grave at St Martin's Church, Bladon, England
Consuelo and her younger son Lord Ivor. Ivor died in the 1950s, and Consuelo chose to be buried near himAwards
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Her first marriage to Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough has become a well-known example of the advantageous but loveless marriages common during the Gilded Age. The Duke obtained a large dowry through the marriage and reportedly told her - on their honeymoon - that he had married her only "because he felt obliged to save Blenheim," his ancestral home.
