On Season 3 of HBO’s The Gilded Age, a similar saga plays out. Gladys Russell is betrothed—against her will but to her mother ...

They did, however, have an insanely lavish wedding.

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

See Inside Dowager Duchess of Marlborough's $24 Million London Home (Her Bedroom Is an Entire Floor!) The five-floor townhouse dates back to 1835 and has nine bedrooms, two kitchenettes, two ...

CONSUELO, DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH, HERE; Visits Land of Birth for First Time Since Marriage. Share full article. Aug. 20, 1902. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough: the aristocrat with attitude. Her beauty and fierce intelligence left Proust and Rodin obsessed, and the upper-classes besotted.

an american duchess; the duke of marlborough weds mrs. hamersley. a civil marriage before mayor hewitt and a religious ceremony in church. share full article. june 30, 1888.

NEW YORK – Sometimes a lady likes to have some fun. For Lady Sarah Churchill (Rachel Weisz), the caustic Duchess of Marlborough in "The Favourite," that means going out to the palace lawn and ...

Murder, abduction from a convent, the destruction of her own legendary beauty, the Aesop’s Fable of wishing to marry a Duke, years of reclusive seclusion… All were combined in the long and ...