The storyline, though fictional, echoes a very real chapter in Gilded Age history—the forced marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt, ...

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

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

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

Oscar Wilde, J.P. Morgan and Mamie Fish are a few of the real people who have appeared on the HBO historical series ...

Screenwriter Julian Fellowes has been known to borrow from history for his phenomenally successful period dramas before, and ...

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 ...

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

The character's plot line closely mirrors that of Consuelo Vanderbilt, who tied the knot with the Duke of Marlborough in 1895 ...

Five prominent Palm Beach socialites—Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, Marjorie Merriweather Post, Eva Cromwell Stotesbury, Mona ...

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

The marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt may have been ill-fated, but the wedding remains one of the grandest in history—so much so that it inspired the HBO show The Gilded Age.