Only time will tell if the life of Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough hints at what's to come for Gladys on the HBO period ...

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

On November 6, 1895, the 18-year-old Consuelo Vanderbilt married Charles, the ninth Duke of Marlborough at St. Thomas’s ...

Consuelo Vanderbilt was the best known “dollar princess”—or, American heiresses that English aristocrats married for their ...

They did, however, have an insanely lavish wedding.

While Gladys' season 3 storyline may seem a bit too extreme to be made up, even it was based on the experiences of the real ...

Gladys Russell's show-stopping wedding gown was designed by a worldwide team of artisans—and nodded to a real-life heiress.

Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, once a society fixture, is the real life inspiration behind one of the central characters in ...

Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, Marjorie Merriweather Post, Eva Cromwell Stotesbury, Mona Williams Bismarck, and Anita O’Keeffe Young—left indelible marks on society. These women, known for their wealth, ...

Screenwriter Julian Fellowes has been known to borrow from history for his phenomenally successful period dramas before, and now, it seems that The Gilded Age creator has used the tragic tale of ...

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

In an interview with Cosmopolitan, actress Taissa Farmiga weighed in on her character's journey, saying Gladys didn't have ...