Picture No | 11072271 |
Date | 1903 |
Description | Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough with her two sons |
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Portrait of Consuelo Vanderbilt (1877 - 1964), American heiress and first wife of Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough. She married the duke in 1895 after being coerced into the marriage by her mother. After her divorce in 1920, she devoted much of her time to social welfare and was married again, to Colonel Jacques Balsan. Pictured here with her two sons, the Marquis of Blandford and Lord Ivor Charles Spencer-Churchill, The little boy in the right of the picture became the 10th Duke of Marlborough.
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Source | Photograph by Alice Hughes in The Tatler, 17 June 1903 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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