Word: vanderbilt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlantic to England last week, the S. S. 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...
Winthrop Rutherfurd married in 1920; now lives in Manhattan. In terviewed, he admitted he "admired" Miss Vanderbilt at the date in question; declined further comment. With these distressing rev elations coming thick and fast, the Protestant half of Manhattan recalled that there was still a pronunciamento to come, a review of all the premises and conclusions which would undoubtedly clear the air, explain all. This would be the self-volunteered statement promised by Protestant Episcopal Bishop Manning. The Bishop, Society remembered, had once known sharp-tongued Mrs. Belmont; had excluded her name, as divorcee, from the year book...
Brushing aside this question of principle, the Roman Catholic clergy pointed out the perfect technical propriety of the Vanderbilt- Marlborough annulment by the Rota, a court so august that the sheer weight of its legal machinery prevents it being set in motion except in behalf of litigants of some consequence. Said Father Parsons, editor of the Roman Catholic Weekly America, speaking over the radio at Manhattan: "Let it be remembered that the Rota has been sitting on cases such as this since 1323. For over 900 years persons having grounds for believing that their marriages are invalid have appeared before...
Frederick Vanderbilt Field of New York City...