The picture of marble house is actually the breakers mansion
@willtee15264 жыл бұрын
That image was not Marble House it was The Breakers.
@BuzzMo13 жыл бұрын
Picture of woman in wedding dress is not Consuelo. I've never found an actual photo, but what was broadly shared was a drawing of it. It had huge, puffy long sleeves. Several years ago Blenheim Palace did a reproduction of it and had it on display. You can see very clearly in those photos what the dress looked like.
@MA-yh2ko2 жыл бұрын
I graduated from Dowling College which the Idle Hour Mansion anchored. Sadly the school shut down in 2017 and the entire property is currently for sale. The Mansion was where the administrative offices were and the ballroom was used for school parties and rented out for weddings etc.
@janetpitts73023 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed the video, thank you for your time and work!
@gracemccurdy6474 жыл бұрын
Very informative ignore the hate
@gloriaramirez41453 жыл бұрын
Very nice historical pictures and background! Thanks!
@tomedmonds69203 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your encouraging words.
@gaymichaelis75814 жыл бұрын
Very well done! Very interesting and fascinating! Thank you very much…
@waynepelts7824 жыл бұрын
What a fascinating tension between mother, Alva, and daughter, Consuelo. The architect is Richard Morris Hunt, not William Morris Hunt. Thank you for this detailed treatment of the fascinating Vanderbilts.
@sunsetmotionpictures14183 жыл бұрын
It just goes to show you that love is more important than a title
@eduardoramirezjr44034 жыл бұрын
Alva Vanderbilt was “battle axe of a mother”.
@janetsaeger84393 жыл бұрын
No wonder Hugh Bonneville was chosen for Downton Abbey. At 14:26, his resemblance to Consuelo's father is uncanny!
@Kat-gx3se2 жыл бұрын
I actually did a double take!
@VeracityLH4 жыл бұрын
RE Consuelo's sons. The elder, as the lecturer said, became the next Duke of Marlborough and his heirs still hold the dukedom and Blenhein Palace. Consuelo's younger son, Ivor's birth was the subject of some scandal. Consuelo and Winthrop Rutherford reconnected and with her husband's reluctant permission, she spent time with Rutherford in Paris. Ivor arrived in due course and his parentage has been much debated, especially since he bears little resemblance to either Sunny Vanderbilt or Ivor's elder brother. Such is life in an unhappy arranged marriage. Sunny's reputation has been polished in recent years to present a more balanced view of the relationship than can be found in Consuelo's memoir. One gets the feeling that these two were like Charles and Diana, that they cared for each other but had little in common, had 2 sons, each spouse took lovers, and it ended badly.
@beverlytrammel28194 жыл бұрын
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@BuzzMo13 жыл бұрын
I heard Consuelo's great grandson speak at Blenheim, while publicizing his book about Consuelo's husband, the 9th Duke of Marlborough. He claims Ivor was not the Duke's son because he didn't look like his brother or his father.. He claimed that Sunny had communicated in a letter, that I believe was found in the Blenheim archives, that his youngest son, Ivor, was not his son, having been told by someone who knew. I suspect the person who told him was his second wife, Gladys, who was a friend of Consuelo's until Gladys starting flirting with the Duke. Gladys was known to be a liar and jealous of Consuelo, so I have a hard time believing it. Just because a child doesn't resemble a father or brother, doesn't mean he was fathered by another man. In the pictures I've seen of Ivor as a child, he looks like Consuelo. I can't understand why this author would slander his great grandmother, other than to sell more books. Ivor has 2 grandsons that are alive, so a DNA test should have been done to prove/disprove the theory.
@monycheri4 жыл бұрын
Thank you .,very interesting story..love the Gilded Age..
@carolberwindscheffler27084 жыл бұрын
I'm a Berwind great great grandaughter of 2 Presidents the Harrison's. My grandad had a home near their house Vanderbilt s ,called the Elms.
@wdm55523 жыл бұрын
And it's a magnificent home, even today. And open to the public.
@LSTEdD1 Жыл бұрын
Love visiting The Elms. I was a guide at the Preservation Society of Newport County in the early 2000’s and would walk through the house just before visitors and enjoy the beautiful fragrance of the large flower arrangements. The newly renovated gardens are beautiful as well!
@KD-11104 жыл бұрын
Fascinating story About wealth ,Family,Love &the Lack of it.consuelo was a survivor !she apparently held her head high and moved on..
@patriciapalmer13773 жыл бұрын
She is the societal icon of a particular segment of an era.
@bugnamedVelma4 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed it. However, Mary, the photo you have captioned as Marble House is actually The Breakers...home of Alva's rival, Alice.
@deemareedubois31373 жыл бұрын
Alva looks like a woman who isn’t to be trifled with. A woman who is going to get her own way no matter what.
@margarete68882 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed your video. Very interesting and informative! Thank you!
@davidrutter97864 жыл бұрын
Great information, but the photo of Marble House is her Uncle Cornelius' Breakers! Also the supposed wedding portrait isn't Consuelo, but an English woman photographed for a presentation at court.
@lisamunoz56774 жыл бұрын
Love the story
@sunsetmotionpictures14183 жыл бұрын
Thanks again for a wonderful education of the guilted age
@beckywaytoomuch2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this!
@graceyoakum88632 жыл бұрын
Thank you, It was very nice.
@thatsmyjam60654 жыл бұрын
This is great. Keep it up!
@howudoing183 жыл бұрын
Gladys Deacon’s father killed her mother’s lover, not her mother.
@elinkeykramme65112 жыл бұрын
Important detail
@bookmouse27192 жыл бұрын
Oh that makes a difference.....(still killed somebody).
@brittnyrv5087 Жыл бұрын
I loved this video. Well done.
@lauramarles84452 жыл бұрын
Wonderful lecture, Thank you!
@miniprepper82842 жыл бұрын
There are a lot of comments about Consuelo's long neck. I think she did have a nice long neck, but I think some of those early images were manipulated. Photographers back in those days could make waists smaller, add shadows, smooth out complexion flaws and manipulate features to some extent, just like we can do with Photoshop and filters today. Seems a long, swanlike neck was in vogue back then. There is a yt video about that practice. You can see in the last photo with CZ Guest, Consuelo's neck looks much more "normal".
@lmnh822 жыл бұрын
She wore a metal brace that straightened and elongated her neck
@marciasloan5342 жыл бұрын
Thank-you very much.
@thomasburton29424 жыл бұрын
The architect responsible for both Marble House and the Petit Chateau was Richard, not William, Morris Hunt.
@TheMoonwalker1012 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!!
@richardw34704 жыл бұрын
Win Rutherford was eventually married to Lucy Mercer of the FDR scandal. The younger son of CV died some time in the 50s of a medical problem--a brain tumor or cancer, I think.
@trishemerald24873 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: $2.5M USD in 1985 (her dowry) is the equivalent of over $81M USD today.
@ursamahan-worlds57263 жыл бұрын
You mean 1885?
@azabujuban-hito80852 жыл бұрын
She's already died in 1985
@bookmouse27192 жыл бұрын
@@azabujuban-hito8085 you don't say.
@Samantha-ys2pp4 жыл бұрын
Loved the narration.
@Gentlebreeze3974 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed this!
@Beautyjoy984 жыл бұрын
That would be about a 62 million dollars today! In a dowery. Holy crap! My heart breaks for her though. To have no Freedom or choice. When I was little I always wished I was a princess. But as I grew to understand what princesses were actually put through I was in shock. I stopped wishing in the turkey wish bone to be a princess. Nope, no thank you.
@mcbrineart2 жыл бұрын
The painter John Singer Sargent was known to stretch out necks to make the sitter look more elegant but in this case he simply painted what he saw!
@alinebatistuti4 жыл бұрын
Redemption in the end👏🏻
@pinkbeautytwinkle4 жыл бұрын
She had such a long neck.
@vintagedesignerfinds8364 жыл бұрын
The brother of Etienne Balsan who was friends with Coco Chanel.
@andreayaya4 жыл бұрын
How interesting! Thanks for the comment.
@lesleyh26314 жыл бұрын
That’s not OHP in the picture you posted.
@ericelmore2 жыл бұрын
You are correct...somewhat. It's NOT Oliver Hazard Perry (who died in 1819); it's Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, who married Alva Vanderbilt after she divorced Willie K. Vanderbilt.
@carmensandiego2113 жыл бұрын
loved it
@charlesvanderhoog70563 жыл бұрын
Marble House a prison? Well, I'd like to live in a prison like that. Especially with unlimited funds at my disposal.
@dannybeun9483 жыл бұрын
Tres tres chic 👌
@prettyfar334 жыл бұрын
She had the longest neck!!! Very pretty!!!
@dawnprudenti19644 жыл бұрын
I didn't realize the Vanderbuilts had a house in Oakdale
@w.urlitzer18694 жыл бұрын
yes they vander-built it.
@wdm55523 жыл бұрын
@@w.urlitzer1869 And now it's gone.
@dollyvandenbrink52114 жыл бұрын
Is Anderson cooper related to Alba Vanderbilt?
@nanwood594 жыл бұрын
Yes, but only by marriage. Alva Smith's first husband was William K. Vanderbilt. His brother, Cornelius Vanderbilt II had a son Reginald Vanderbilt. Reggie & his second wife Gloria Morgan had a daughter, Gloria Vanderbilt. Gloria & her third husband Wyatt Cooper had a son, Anderson Cooper. Anderson has a son named WYATT MORGAN Cooper.
@mr.rightnow.73002 жыл бұрын
She had an extremely long neck. It's almost strange looking.
@peggylee22672 жыл бұрын
👽
@emeraldkimble76024 жыл бұрын
The biggest vaderbiltedt estate is in Asheville B.C. andis called biltmore
@suenetteedwards59654 жыл бұрын
I believe you mean NC.
@tonibauer29494 жыл бұрын
Suenette Edwards indeed.
@bethknight44363 жыл бұрын
I have never understood what compelled Consuela to marry the Duke of Marlboro.
@michelebeatty49273 жыл бұрын
Her mother.
@dannybeun9483 жыл бұрын
Just for the tittle darling .... tres tres chic 👌
@wdm55523 жыл бұрын
Her overpowering mother! But it's the Duke of Marlborough, not Marlboro like the cigarettes.
@janetsaeger84393 жыл бұрын
Duty and guilt. Alva faked a heart attack and Consuelo was convinced Alva would die unless she agree to marry the Duke. Alva was a horror
@AlexS-oj8qf3 жыл бұрын
It was her mother's decission not her's.
@carolberwindscheffler27084 жыл бұрын
Have you done anything on my family
@genniejefferson44144 жыл бұрын
Wedding dress is very beautiful.
@BuzzMo13 жыл бұрын
It is not a pix of Consuelo in her wedding dress. Her dress had long sleeves.
@natalieabrams47224 жыл бұрын
Dear mom please call Ian
@teenieneenie6304 жыл бұрын
And to think, this nonsense still goes on amongst todays High Society! Geeezzz...people grow up and get Real!!
@lindacuttic63834 жыл бұрын
Consuelo looks. like she had her neck stretched
@Checheelingling4 жыл бұрын
Yes I noticed her neck was long.
@wdm55523 жыл бұрын
@@Checheelingling Her neck was long, like a swan. She was very beautiful.