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- For more than a decade, Alva was a queen bee hovering over the New York elites. All that changed when Alva decided to divorce her husband, William K. Vanderbilt after suffering through years of infidelity.
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Though largely embarked upon as a way to facilitate the Anglican Duke's desire to convert to Roman Catholicism, the annulment, to the surprise of many, was also fully supported by Consuelo's mother, who testified that the Vanderbilt–Marlborough marriage had been an act of unmistakable coercion.
At a party for one of William Henry Vanderbilt's daughters, Smith's best friend, Consuelo Yznaga [5] introduced her to William Kissam Vanderbilt, grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt. On April 20, 1875, William and Alva were married at Calvary Church in New York City.
- She Was A Golden Child
- Her Mother Was A Monster
- She Endured A Horrific Punishment
- Her Mother Beat Her with A Riding Crop
- She Was An It Girl
- She Was A Pawn
- She Had A Secret Lover
- She Got An Indecent Proposal
- She Had A Romeo and Juliet Story
- Her Fiancé Stood Her Up
In certain echelons of New York society—the upper ones—the birth of Consuelo Vanderbilt in 1877 was akin to the coming of a messiah. The eldest child and only daughter of the main Vanderbilt heir William and his wife Alva, Consuelo was all the hopes of the Gilded Age of America rolled into one. As such, the little heiress heralded a generation of b...
Consuelo’s mother Alva was one of the great battle-axes in history, and she was determined to force old money New York families like the Astors to accept the Vanderbilt name into their ranks, despite its “brutish” nouveau richeassociations. A reasonable enough goal…except Alva was something of a true brute. A Confederate loyalist, Alva was infamous...
Growing up a Vanderbilt was a hugely privileged position for Consuelo. But her privilege came with nightmarish punishments.From the beginning, Alva expected her daughter to be nothing short of perfect, and from a young age forced Consuelo to wear a steel rod along the length of her spine to “improve” her posture. That was far from all. Wikimedia Co...
Not content to limit herself to her daughter’s looks, Alva also rigorously “corrected” Consuelo’s personality and behavior. If Consuelo said one word out of line, the matriarch was liable to whip the girl with a riding crop. Picking her own wardrobe was also seen as the height of rebellion; when Consuelo once complained about the clothes her mother...
Unfortunately for the poor girl, Consuelo was utterly beautiful as a young woman. With the “slim, tight” look that was all the rage in the Edwardian era, she was a small, elongated woman with dark eyes and a long, oval face with delicate features. As Peter Panplaywright J M Barrie once put it, "I would stand all day in the street to see Consuelo…ge...
The sweet, stunning Consuelo was barely in her teen years when she began getting offers of marriage from almost every man who met her. Her mother’s reaction was chilling.The only suitor she even allowed Consuelo to consider was Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg, a man Consuelo deeply disliked. To the ambitious Alva, only a prince or a duke was go...
While Alva planned out her daughter’s titles and nuptials, Consuelo had a much different idea for a groom. During the course of her debutante season, she’d met and fallen in love with the handsome Winthrop Rutherfurd, a young man of similar—or even greater—New York social standing as the Vanderbilts. Still, Rutherfurd was no prince and no duke, and...
Just after her birthday, Consuelo committed her biggest act of rebellion yet.She met Winthrop Rutherfurd for a bicycle ride along with her mother and some other friends in Riverside Park in Manhattan, but when they drew back from the rest of the crowd, Winthrop quickly and clandestinely proposed to Consuelo—and she accepted. If it sounds like the l...
The day that Winthrop Rutherfurd made Consuelo Vanderbilt his fiancée, the young girl was on the edge of heading out on a long European sojourn with her mother, ostensibly to broaden her horizons but really to catch her a husband with a title. Indeed, Consuelo was set to leave the very next day. Undeterred, Winthrop promised to trail her to Europe ...
Consuelo spent months soaking up European hospitality, going to tea party after tea party and meeting prince after duke. But she soon realized something had gone terribly wrong.After five months, her fiancé Winthrop still hadn’t shown up. Nor had he written, or called, or done anything to hold onto the promise they had made each other that day. It ...
- She Was Privileged. She was a Gilded Age "queen," but Alva Vanderbilt's story is as dirty as they come. Alva came into the world in 1853 in Mobile, Alabama.
- Her Family Suffered A Downfall. By the time Alva was 17, she had seen the world and picked up an array of expensive tastes along the way. But then her perfect reality turned into an utter nightmare.
- She Had An Achilles Heel. As a young woman, Alva had to face a cruel truth. She was no beauty. Indeed, that’s probably putting it politely. She was “homely” and "square-chinned,” and in a world where the two most powerful currencies for a woman were her beauty and her wealth, Alva was coming up short.
- She Charmed The Right Person. Alva may have lost her mother and her money, but she made darn sure to keep her well-connected socialite friends. One day, her old pal Consuelo Yznaga came through for her in a big way, introducing her to one William Kissam Vanderbilt, the rakish, gadabout grandson of railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt.
This intriguing biography combines the stories of mother and daughter, allowing us to see how the one influenced the other. It opens with the wedding, in 1895, of Consuelo, one of the greatest heiresses of the late 19 th century, to the 9 th Duke of Marlborough.
- Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
Following her divorce from Churchill, on July 4, 1921, Consuelo married Jacques Balsan, a French lieutenant-colonel in the cavalry and a passionate balloonist. (She had her marriage to Churchill annulled in 1926, and married Balsan a second time in a Catholic ceremony.)
Jan 31, 2024 · All that changed when Alva decided to divorce her husband, William K. Vanderbilt after suffering through years of infidelity. This fateful decision would transform Consuelo’s life forever, as...
