Word: marlboroughs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daily savior of the Tsarevitch Alexis' life, and thus listened too readily to the counsels of one whom he believed a holy man, able to "talk with the blood" of Alexis. Deft, Biographer Poliakov adds the tale of how Alexandra, Britain's Dowager Empress, sent the Dreadnaught Marlborough to rescue from a Bolshevik "Prison" in the Crimea her sister the Dowager Empress of Russia...
...Berengaria celebrated Thanksgiving with a dinner. At the Captain's table sat Her Majesty, Queen Marie of Rumania. At a small table, separate, alone, brooded Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, champion of the independence of women, mother of Consuelo Vanderbilt, who was onetime Duchess of Marlborough (TIME, Nov. 22, Nov. 29). Mrs. Belmont avoided other passengers; when asked to speak, refused; between meals sat reading. At times the book would rest in her lap, neglected, while her eyes saw far away...
Meanwhile the Sacred Rota of Rome, harried by indignant Protestants, published the testimony it swore it received before annulling the marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt to the Duke of Marlborough. This revealed breathtaking details. Before the Roman Catholic Diocese of Southwark, Eng., it stated, the Duke of Marlborough with Consuelo, his onetime Duchess, and Mrs. Belmont, her mother, and Mrs. Mary V. S. Tiffany, Consuelo's aunt, and Mrs. Lucy Jay, family friend, confirmed the following: In 1895, Consuelo Vanderbilt was secretly engaged to one Winthrop Rutherfurd. Her mother discovered so; commanded separation on grounds of social prestige. Consuelo demurred...
...placed in a steam-heated modern apartment across from the Vatican, she wept with loneliness, refused luxury in Milan, saying, "He may need my services again." Opportunism. The past week produced loud Episcopal dissent from the Roman Catholic satisfaction over its annulment of the marriage of the Duke of Marlborough to Consuelo Vanderbilt (TIME, Nov. 22). Up spoke first the brave Dr. Arthur Kinsolving (Episcopalian) of Baltimore, onetime rector in the New York Diocese where the Duke was wedded. "That girl was a happy and radiant bride when she went to the altar," said he, referring to the recent testimony...
...present Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, is alleged to have appeared before the Catholic Diocesan Court at Southwark, Eng., with her mother last July, and deposed that she was forced by parental duress to consent to marry in 1895 Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, Ninth Duke of Marlborough, Baron Spencer, Baron Churchill, Earl of Sunderland, Earl of Marlborough, Marquis of Blandford, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Prince of Mindelheim in Suabia, Knight of the Garter, descendant of "England's greatest general" John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), the victor of Blenheim...