Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Consuelo Vanderbilt as the wife of the French Ambassador at the Court of Catherine of Russia NPG Ax41116

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Alexander Bassano, photogravure by Walker & Boutall

Consuelo Vanderbilt was the richest American heiress to marry into British aristocracy. Her mother, Alva, was ambitious for her daughter's marriage prospects and named her after Consuelo Yznaga, a childhood friend. Another of Alva's friends, Minnie Paget, introduced Consuelo to the eligible Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough. Her objection to the match was overruled, and Consuelo was said to have cried throughout her wedding day in 1895, aged seventeen. Her dowry of $2.5 million was used to improve Blenheim Palace. After... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.