Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Consuelo Vanderbilt NPG D38261

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Frederick John Jenkins, after Heller

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.