82. American Girls | Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan

We continue our series this month with one of the most famous of our American Girls who made an impact in the British Peerage.

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Sources:

The Glitter and the Gold, by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan (Amazon.com)

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York, by Anne de Courcy (Amazon.com)

To Marry an English Lord: Victorian and Edwardian Experience, by Gail MacColl and Carol Wallace (Amazon.com)

The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau: Husband Hunting in the Gilded Age, by Julie Ferry (Amazon.com)

‘Consuelo and Alva’: An Early Story of Celebrity (npr.org)

The Bed Hopping Bride of Blenheim (dailymail.co.uk)

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