Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan was a Palm Beach society fixture from the time she settled in Manalapan with her second husband ...

Consuelo Vanderbilt and Gladys Russell from 'The Gilded Age' (Image: Hulton Archive, HBO) The Gilded Age was an era of social climbing, flaming fortunes, and grounded revolutions that changed America ...

They did, however, have an insanely lavish wedding.

On November 6, 1895, the 18-year-old Consuelo Vanderbilt married Charles, the ninth Duke of Marlborough at St. Thomas’s ...

Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan was a Palm Beach society fixture from the time she settled in Manalapan with her second husband until her death in 1964.

Consuelo Vanderbilt was the best known “dollar princess”—or, American heiresses that English aristocrats married for their ...

Eagle's Nest was built for William K. Vanderbilt II between 1910 and 1936, and is now home to a museum, planetarium, hiking ...

Alva Belmont was a prominent Gilded Age socialite who married a Vanderbilt railroad heir. Later in life, she became a women's suffrage activist.

Harper (The It Girls) entices readers with this lively novel about wealthy American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt. Forced into marriage by her mother, 18-year-old Consuelo marries Sunny, Charles ...

The IRL Consuelo, Duchess of Buckingham was a friend of the Vanderbilt family — she was Consuelo Vanderbilt’s godmother and namesake — so Alva Vanderbilt was very aware of the weakness ...

Consuelo Vanderbilt, who married the 9th Duke of Marlborough in 1895, with her son, The Marquess of Blandford, in 1899. She later married Jacques Balsan and moved to Palm Beach.