Consuelo Vanderbilt has everything a girl could want including a pushy mother who wants her daughter to marry a duke that she does not love, or even really like. Yikes!! This is a short episode about Consuelo to the point when she marries the Duke. Have a listen and get ready for part 2 next week. The marriage is rocky and full of affairs and scandal. Does Consuelo finally find love-check back next week to find out.
Definitely click on some of the newspaper sources below. They are fascinating.
Sources:
- The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.), 15 Sept. 1894. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99066033/1894-09-15/ed-1/seq-10/>
- The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]), 14 Jan. 1892. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91070630/1892-01-14/ed-1/seq-4/>)
- The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.), 05 Oct. 1895. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84025891/1895-10-05/ed-1/seq-8/>
- HUGO VICKERS FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 17:54 EDT, 24 May 2019 | UPDATED: 20:38 EDT, 24 May 2019
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7068705/New-letter-exposes-Consuelo-Vanderbilt-Blenheim-calls-husbands-heirs-question.html - Bates, Karen Grigsby. “‘Consuelo and Alva’: An Early Story of Celebrity.” NPR, 1 Feb. 2006, https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5159494. Accessed 10 Mar. 2022.
- Cummings, Mary. “High Style in the Gilded Age: Consuelo Vanderbilt.” Southampton-History, 8 Jan. 2021, https://www.southamptonhistory.org/post/high-style-in-the-gilded-age-consuelo-vanderbilt. Accessed 10 Mar. 2022.
- MacColl, Gail, and Carol McD. Wallace. To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery in the Gilded Age (An Inspiration for Downton Abbey). Workman Publishing, 2012.