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

They did, however, have an insanely lavish wedding.

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

Together, she and Vanderbilt had three children: Consuelo, William Kissam Jr., and Harold Stirling. In 1882, the couple spent $3 million to build a mansion on "Millionaires' Row" on Fifth Avenue ...

Soon Consuelo was moving in the same circles as Edward VII, Kaiser Willhem II and the Tsar of Russia. The Vanderbilts had come a very long way since Consuelo’s great-grandfather Cornelius Vanderbilt, ...

Gloria Vanderbilt was an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1924. Numerous key galleries and museums such as National Arts Club have featured Gloria Vanderbilt's work in the past.

In 1895, she forced her daughter, Consuelo Vanderbilt, to marry the Duke of Marlborough. Picture shows Consuelo Vanderbilt, the 9th Duchess of Marlborough, dressed for the coronation of Edward VII.