Get ready!  Consuelo has a full and happy life with a few ups and downs.  No problem.  She's got this!


The bed hopping bride of Blenheim: She's always been portrayed as the wronged chatelaine of one of Britain’s grandest houses - but now a sensational letter has exposed the affairs that tortured her husband
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7068705/New-letter-exposes-Consuelo-Vanderbilt-Blenheim-calls-husbands-heirs-

The story of American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt’s ‘celebrity wedding’ in 1895 — and a very personal portrait that she kept until her death
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https://www.edwardianpromenade.com/love/the-duchess-of-marlboroughs-lovers/

https://www.southamptonhistory.org/post/high-style-in-the-gilded-age-consuelo-vanderbilt
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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/>
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  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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

If you have been watching "The Gilded Age" on HBOmax then today's episode will be just what you are looking for to get a little extra information on some of the characters.  Mrs. Russell in the series is based on the real life of Alva Vanderbilt.  She was a determined and strong women who knew what she wanted for herself and her family and would do almost anything to get it.  Once her family was grown she moved on to suffrage and used her money and notoriety to advance this cause.

Stay tuned because next week we will dive into the life of Consuelo Vanderbilt who is represented in the series as Gladys Russell. 

Works Cited

“A Forgotten Vanderbilt Finally Gets Her Due.” Garden & Gun, 12 Oct. 2018, https://gardenandgun.com/articles/forgotten-vanderbilt-finally-gets-due/. Accessed 10 Mar. 2022.

Faeder, Eric. “Women’s History Month Spotlight: Alva Vanderbilt Belmont.” Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service), 31 May 2021, https://www.nps.gov/vama/blogs/womens-history-month-spotlight-alva-vanderbilt-belmont.htm. Accessed 10 Mar. 2022.

Krick, Jessa. “Charles Frederick Worth (1825–1895) and the House of Worth.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/wrth/hd_wrth.htm (October 2004)

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.