Could You Have Endured Consuelo Vanderbilt's Upbringing?
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Published 2014-12-18
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All Comments (21)
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I most certainly could endure every bit of her pampered upbringing. The better question is could Consuelo have endured mine?
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The thing that I noticed most was this: not a single member of that family seemed remotely contented by their fabulous wealth. All that money and the only thing Mrs. Vanderbilt cared about was that her daughter could become a Duchess. They had everything most people then could have ever wished for, but it was never quite enough, it seems.
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THE wig on that kid though. Resembles closer to Rasputin than an aristocrat.
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Abuse is abuse I'd rather be poor and in a loving home than rich and treated like an asset
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Poverty sucks and abuse sucks. Whether you’re fearing a lack of food or the wrath of a brutally oppressive mother, neither is easy to live with. Kind of hard to say that one is necessarily worse than the other.
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I read that she was forced to marry a man she didn't love so her mother could move up in society. On her wedding day they had to use a lot of make up and cover her face with a veil to hide the fact that she had been crying. Consuelo reminds me of Rose, from Titanic.
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I would rather be rich and miserable then poor and miserable !
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I have Consuelos autobiography and have read it twice. It's a fun and pleasant read. She's incredibly well mannered in her literary voice and in detailed control of her mind. That comes through clearly in the book. She respects her audience by coherently including stories that would be interesting to read. She does not come off as snobby and you find yourself rooting for her.
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A prison is a prison no matter how pretty the walls are
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I am astounded that one interviewee disparagingly refers to Consuelo's passing of the entrance papers to both Oxford & Cambridge Universities with "flying colors" as indicating that she was "extremely well-trained". It sounds like Consuelo had a brilliant mind. Pity it was wasted upon becoming a decorative wife for a clueless British aristocrat.
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Why y’all put that ragtag wig on that child’s head? 😩
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Rich or not I'm thinking this girl was a prisoner enduring the rich form of child abuse. Poor girl would rather have lived elsewhere I guarantee it
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Pampered life?..She had a domineering,abusive mother who forced her into a loveless marriage with a poor duke.
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"Well-bred, well-trained..." Are we still talking about a person?
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can we just talk about the fact that they never called her educated, or said anyone taught her anything. it was always that she was ‘well trained’ like a dog.
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She may have been American royalty but was being treated like an animal. She was wealthy but the physical and emotional pain she must have suffered at Mom's hands is disheartening.
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Alva is equivalent to a modern pageant mom.
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Poor Consuelo! She ended up being married off at 19 to the 9th Duke of Marlborough, who didn’t care about anything but her money and most of their marriage was spent living apart. The marriage was finally annulled in 1926 and Consuelo went on to marry a French author and found happiness. I wouldn’t trade my life for hers for any amount of money. Unless Alva got killed off as part of the deal! That woman was an absolute horror!
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What a horrible abusive childhood. Sad she was never able to experience being a child with her own thoughts.
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Alva didn't want a daughter; she wanted a prized show horse. Kind of sad...
