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The Duke, for his part, allegedly gave up the woman he loved back in England and collected $2,500,000 ($91,600,000 in 2023 dollars) in railroad stock as a marriage settlement. [16] Consuelo, c. 1910. Consuelo married the Duke at Saint Thomas Church in New York, on 6 November 1895. [17]
The Duke at the Devonshire House Ball of 1897, dressed as the French Ambassador to the Court of Catherine the Great. Marlborough was married twice. His first wife was the American railroad heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, whom he married at Saint Thomas Church in New York City on 6 November 1895. The marriage was a mercenary one.
George Montagu, 8th Duke of Manchester: United Kingdom: May 22, 1876 – 18 August 1892 (his death) [3] Consuelo Vanderbilt: Duchess of Marlborough Manhattan, New York City, New York: Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough: United Kingdom: November 6, 1895 – 1921 (divorce) [4] Bettina Riddle: Baroness von Hutten Erie, Pennsylvania
The 9th Duke of Marlborough married Consuelo Vanderbilt, member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family. The 11th Duke of Marlborough married in 1961 Athina Livanos, former wife of Aristotle Onassis. In 1972 he married Countess Rosita Douglas-Stjernorp, daughter of Swedish nobleman and diplomat Count Carl Douglas-Stjernorp. They were ...
John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough (1926–2014), who married four times. [16] [17] [18] Lady Rosemary Mildred Spencer-Churchill (b. 1929), a lady in waiting to Queen Elizabeth II, she married Charles Robert Muir (d. 1972) at Oxford in 1953. [19]
Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt, married Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough in 1895. [7] Nancy Langhorne, daughter of Chiswell Langhorne, married Waldorf Astor (later 2nd Viscount Astor), eldest son of William Waldorf Astor and a great-great-grandson of John Jacob Astor, in 1897. [2]
Lord Ivor Charles Spencer-Churchill (14 October 1898 – 17 September 1956) was a British aristocrat, soldier, and art collector. He was the younger son of the 9th Duke of Marlborough and his first wife, the former Consuelo Vanderbilt, an American railroad heiress.
Coat of Arms of Winthrop Rutherfurd. In 1895, Consuelo Vanderbilt fell in love with Rutherfurd, and Rutherfurd proposed marriage to her. [16] [17] However, Consuelo's mother Alva Vanderbilt forced Consuelo to travel to Europe, and pressured her to marry Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, in order to gain the title and status of a duchess.