Gladys Russell's show-stopping wedding gown was designed by a worldwide team of artisans—and nodded to a real-life heiress.

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

Only time will tell if the life of Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough hints at what's to come for Gladys on the HBO period ...

Screenwriter Julian Fellowes has been known to borrow from history for his phenomenally successful period dramas before, and now, it seems that The Gilded Age creator has used the tragic tale of ...

Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, once a society fixture, is the real life inspiration behind one of the central characters in ...

On November 6, 1895, the 18-year-old Consuelo Vanderbilt married Charles, the ninth Duke of Marlborough at St. Thomas’s ...

They did, however, have an insanely lavish wedding.

Consuelo Vanderbilt was the best known “dollar princess”—or, American heiresses that English aristocrats married for their ...

Alva Belmont was a prominent Gilded Age socialite who married a Vanderbilt railroad heir. Later in life, she became a women's ...

The tangerine-colored dining room might raise Consuelo Vanderbilt's aristocratic eyebrows. But most of the former Duchess of Marlborough's Manalapan love nest — the loggia's Portuguese tiles ...