Consuelo Vanderbilt
1877 – 1964 American aristocrat, socialite
Vanderbilt heiress whose arranged marriage tied the family to the Churchill dukes of Marlborough.
- Religion
- Protestant (Episcopalian).
- Affiliations
- Duchess of Marlborough by marriage; a leading example of the Gilded Age 'dollar princess' marriages into British aristocracy.
In a marriage pushed by her mother, she wed Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, in 1895, trading a large Vanderbilt dowry for a British title. The union, later annulled, made her a cousin by marriage of Winston Churchill and a symbol of transatlantic dynastic matchmaking.
Connections
- family of William Henry Vanderbilt — Her grandfather.
- family of William Henry Vanderbilt — His granddaughter, who married the Duke of Marlborough.
- family of Winston Churchill — Cousin by marriage through the Spencer-Churchill family.