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The Duchess of Marlborough, c. 1903, by Paul César Helleu Determined to secure the highest-ranking mate possible for her only daughter, a union that would emphasize the preeminence of the Vanderbilt family, Alva engineered a meeting between Consuelo and the indebted, titled Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, chatelain of Blenheim Palace.
However, Marlborough and Consuelo did not divorce until 1921. Deacon and Marlborough were married in Paris later that year. [4] [5] Artistic and a keen gardener, the new Duchess of Marlborough had enlarged images of her startling blue-green eyes painted on the ceiling of the main portico of Blenheim Palace, where they remain today.
Duchess of Marlborough is a title held by the wives of the Dukes of Marlborough and may refer to: ... Consuelo Vanderbilt (1877–1964), first wife of the 9th Duke;
The egg was made for Consuelo Vanderbilt, who became the Duchess of Marlborough in 1895 when she married Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough. [2]In 1902, the Duchess and her husband travelled to Russia, where they dined with Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and visited his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna at the Anichkov Palace.
While they honeymooned in Europe, Marlborough told Consuelo that he actually loved another woman but had married her to "save Blenheim". [18] They had two sons, John Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford, eventually the 10th Duke of Marlborough, and Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill. Their mother famously referred to them as "the heir and the spare".
Consuelo Vanderbilt, who married the 9th Duke of Marlborough in 1895, with her son, The Marquess of Blandford, in 1899. She later married Jacques Balsan and moved to Palm Beach.
He was born in London on 18 September 1897 as the first of two sons born to Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough and his first wife, the former Consuelo Vanderbilt, an American railroad heiress. [1] His younger brother was Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill who joined the Royal Army Service Corps and fought in the First World War. [2]
Louis Jacques Balsan (September 16, 1868 – November 4, 1956) was a French aviator and industrialist, born at Châteauroux (Indre) in 1868, who was the second husband of society beauty Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough. He married her immediately after her divorce from the 9th Duke of Marlborough in 1921. [1]