Consuelo eventually married to her true love, dashing French aviator Jacques Balsan, with whom she shared many happy years. Although Consuelo dutifully fulfilled her role as wife and mother as well as bountiful lady of the manor, her marriage to the Duke was one long misery, later to be annulled. Barrie, to name only a few.Īn heiress of the Vanderbilt fortune, Consuelo was married as an unwilling teenager to the Duke of Marlborough, who needed her money for the upkeep of his ancestral estate at Blenheim Palace. The pages of this memoir are replete with anecdotes involving monarchs, aristocrats, politicians, artists, and writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including Edward VII, Queen Alexandra, Tsar Nicholas II, Queen Marie of Romania, Winston Churchill, H.G. In her autobiography, Consuelo Balsan, the former Duchess of Marlborough, describes with humor and insight the Gilded Age of her youth for the benefit of future generations.
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