Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan was a Palm Beach society fixture from the time she settled in Manalapan with her second husband ...

They did, however, have an insanely lavish wedding.

Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan was a Palm Beach society fixture from the time she settled in Manalapan with her second husband until her death in 1964.

Alva Belmont was a prominent Gilded Age socialite who married a Vanderbilt railroad heir. Later in life, she became a women's suffrage activist.

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.

Soon Consuelo was moving in the same circles as Edward VII, Kaiser Willhem II and the Tsar of Russia. The Vanderbilts had come a very long way since Consuelo’s great-grandfather Cornelius Vanderbilt, ...

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Elise Taylor is the senior living writer at Vogue. She covers interiors, travel, food, royals, and weddings. Previously, she worked at Vanity Fair and has contributed to The New York Times ...