Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough with her sons Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill and John Albert Spencer-Churchill NPG x41297

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Rita Martin

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.