My mother had decreed that rny father should! accompany me to the church to give me away. “I felt cold and numb as I went down to meet my father and the bridesmaids who w^-e waiting for me. In her memoirs, “The Glitter and the Gold,” published in 1952 by Harper & Brothers, she wrote of her wedding: 6, 1895, her eyes were dimmed with tears. When the slim, elegant and wealthy Consuelo Vanderbilt was married to the ninth Duke of Marlborough at St, Thomas Episcopal Church on Fifth Avenue on Nov. Their son is the present Duke.Ī funeral service will be held Wednesday at 11 A.M. She was a leading figure in European society following her marriage to the Duke of Marlborough. Jacques Balsan, was an heiress to the Vanderbilt family fortune. Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, the former Duchess of Marlborough, died today at her estate here.
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