This is the fascinating story of the American heiress, Consuelo Vanderbilt, who married the ninth Duke of Marlborough for anything but love in 1895. A very human story told with candor and objectivity. It will keep your interest from the first page to the last. Everybody who was anybody can be seen in these pages. From artists and writers to statesmen of the world - view her world from the splendors of the courts of St. Petersburg and Vienna to the cold and desolate winter in France of 1940's. Here is a very candid and revealing personal story coupled with a unique insider's view of aristocracy's golden age.
Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan was an enormous influence in my life. My earliest recollections were of Casa Alva in Lantana Florida where I spent almost every winter holiday during my school life.
Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan was an enormous influence in my life. It was the house Granny and Jacques Balsan bought after the war. Consuelo (or ‘Granny’ as we knew her) was born in 1877, the eldest daughter of a very socially ambitious mother and a fabulously wealthy father who was kind and indulgent. Her early life would have been unbearable to later generations. It was extraordinarily strict.
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Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan was the American born wife of the 9th Duke of Marlborough. She was a member of the immensely rich Vanderbilt family and her cruel and ambitious mother arranged her marriage to an English duke who needed money to repair his house and pay his bills. Consuelo Vanderbilt had an amazing life. The Glitter and the Gold gives a look into the days of one of the most famous women of American and English turn of the century aristocracy. This book by a Duchess heretofore unknown to me, is fraught with great historical moments, a good explanation of the customs and protocol of English nobility, and a reminder that things are not as they appear.
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Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. In 1921 she remarried aviator Jacques Balsan moving with him to a chateau in the South of France. This intimate, richly enjoyable memoir is a wonderfully revealing portrait of a golden age. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfil her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in America, she came to England as the Duchess of Marlborough in 1895 and took up residence in her new home - Blenheim Palace.
Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful, and heir to a vast fortune. She was also in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to marry an English Duke. She sailed to England as the Duchess of Marlborough in 1895 and took up residence in her new home-Blenheim Palace. She was the real American heiress who lived long before Downton Abbey's Lady Grantham arrived.
The Glitter and the Gold. Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan. Only one American woman could have written this book. In these recollections Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan tells her story, candidly and objectively. Living through the end of the Victorian Age until December 6, 1964, Consuelo Balsan looks back on an era of extraordinary historical interest, on friendships with celebrated persons and on a lost world of distinction and privilege in which she played a leading part. She recreates, in authentic, amused and amusing detail, a world which has long since come to an end, but which still has the power to fascinate those who never knew it.
Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan had one of the most amazing, extraordinary lives of anyone in American history. Raised into mind-boggling wealth on Fifth Avenue, Consuelo had the misfortune of having Alva as her power-mad mother. Alva, in fact, locked away her strikingly tall, dark daughter and kept her prisoner until she agreed to marry the arrogant, weak and some say violent, Duke of Marlborough
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