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Consuelo Vanderbilt’s tragic love life

Explore Blenheim palace with me while I tell you about the Dollar Princess that saved it; Conseulo Vanderbilt and her tragic love story. #history #dollarprincess #conseulovanderbilt #19thcenturyhistory #blenheimpalace Description——- This is Blenheim palace, one of the many homes saved by the money brought in by an American dollar princess. By the late 19th century the agricultural industry in the U.K. was struggling - Imported American grain was cheaper than grain produced locally causing many farmers to give up farming. Aristocrats, who made a lot of their money from renting their land to these farmers, had to change how they made up their income if they wanted to maintain their lavish lifestyles; over 100 aristocrats chose to do this by marrying a dollar princess. A dollar princess was a nickname given to daughters of rich American families ,who married into an aristocratic family. They were transactional marriages- the aristocrat got vast amounts of money in dowry’s, and the Americans got historic titles and increased statuses. Blenheim’s dollar princess was Conseulo Vanderbilt. Born in New York on the 2nd March 1877, she was the great grand daughter on her father’s side of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who had been the richest man in America. As a child, Conseulos 2 younger brothers attended school but as their only daughter, she was homeschooled so her mother could control her education. While studying, Conseulo was forced to wear a metal pole down her back that was strapped to her forehead and torso to train her to sit perfectly upright. By the age seventeen, Conseulo was beautiful, intelligent and rich. She attended a Parisian ball and received 5 marriage proposals that were all rejected by her mother, as her mother wanted her to marry into the aristocracy. However, Conseulo soon fell in love with Winthrop Rutherford, a man from a wealthy American family rather than aristocracy. On conseulos 18th birthday Winthrop bought Conseulo her favourite flower, and then joined her, her friends and her mother on a bike ride. Conseulo and Winthrop rode as fast as they could to get way out in front of the group and this is when Winthrop asked her to marry him. Conseulo agreed and they kept the engagement secret as they knew her mother wouldn’t agree to it. Conseulo was going back to Europe for a couple of months and so the plan was that he would follow her to europe, and that when she returned to America they would secretly elope. But Conseulo didn’t see or hear from him the entire months she was in Paris - later finding out that he had followed her to Paris like he promised but had been turned away every time he had come to her house, and that letters he had written to her had been confiscated by her mother. Later that year, Consuelo and her mother moved to London and at a ball there she was asked to dance by the Duke of Marlborough. Conseulo was sure she didn’t want to marry the duke especially as she considered herself engaged to Winthrop but despite this, her mother persisted in her plan for her to marry the Duke by inviting him to one of her famous balls in New York. Now back in America, Conseulo was not let out of sight but despite them being kept separate, Conseulo and Winthrop managed to have one short dance together at a ball where he told her his feelings had not changed before she was quickly taken away by her mother. That evening Conseulo stood up to her mother and argued that she should be able to pick who she wanted to marry ending with her mother threatening to murder him. The next morning Conseulo was blamed for caused her mother to have a heart attack and was told that if she kept insisting on marrying her love then she would kill her mother. Distraught, Conseulo agreed to cancel her engagement to Winthrop. Conveniently, this left Conseulo free to marry the Duke that her mother had wanted her to, and on the last night from his trip to America for the ball, the Duke asked Conseulo to marry him. Their marriage agreement came with a huge amount of money totalling $2.5 million roughly $100 million dollars today and on their honeymoon he admitted he only married her for her money to save Blenheim palace. Understandably, the marriage was not a happy one - they went on to have two sons and separated in 1906, officially divorcing in 1921. Conseulo died age 87 in 1965, having remarried and had a long happy second marriage.