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. The Glitter and the Gold is a richly enjoyable memoir is a revealing portrait of a golden age now being celebrated every week behind the doors of Downton Abbey. Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan Glitter and Gold (. Balsan is an unsnobbish and amused observer of the intricate hierarchy both upstairs and downstairs and a revealing witness to the glittering balls, huge weekend parties, and major state occasions she attended or hosted chronicling her encounters with every important figure of the day-from Queen Victoria, Edward VII and Queen Alexandra to Tsar Nicholas and the young Winston Churchill. It now hangs in Blenheim Palace, where Consuelo, onetime Duchess of Marlborough, previously served as chatelaine. She was the real American heiress who lived long before Downton Abbey's Lady Grantham arrived. She sailed to England as the Duchess of Marlborough in 1895 and took up residence in her new home-Blenheim Palace. She was also in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to marry an English Duke. A new edition of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan's memoir-the story of the "real" Lady Grantham of Downton AbbeyĬonsuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful, and heir to a vast fortune. Showing 1-1 of 1 It is a melancholy fact that childhood, so short when compared with the average span of life, should exert such a strong and permanent influence on character that no amount of self-training afterwards can ever completely counter it.
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