Her first marriage produced two sons, John Spencer-Churchill, the 10th duke, and Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill. For much of their 25-year marriage, the Marlboroughs lived separately and the marriage was finally annulled. Īlthough the teenage Consuelo was opposed to the marriage arranged by her mother, she became a popular and influential Duchess. The Duke obtained a large dowry by the marriage, and reportedly told her just after the marriage that he married her in order to "save Blenheim Palace", his ancestral home. Her first marriage to the 9th Duke of Marlborough has become a well-known example of one of the advantageous, but loveless, marriages common during the Gilded Age as such, she was known as one of the earliest dollar princesses. Consuelo Vanderbilt-Balsan (formerly Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough born Consuelo Vanderbilt Ma– December 6, 1964) was a socialite and a member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family.
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