The author with John Churchill, brother of Winston Churchill, in the electric car given her by her mother.
At Blenheim in 1904, left to right, front row, Mrs. Reginald Ronald, Edith Wharton; back row, Lady Randolph Churchill (Winston Churchill’s mother), the Duchess of Marlborough, and her mother-in-law, the Marchioness of Blandford.
Blenheim Palace, seat of the dukes of Marlborough at Woodstock in Oxfordshire.
The Great Hall at Blenheim.
The First State Room at Blenheim. On the wall is a portrait of the author painted by Carolus Duran in 1894, the year before her marriage to the Duke of Marlborough.
The lower terrace at Blenheim (Combine Photos).
The upper terrace at Blenheim (Combine Photos).
The author in 1904.
With her son Ivor, painted by Boldini, 1905.
The Duchess of Marlborough with her sons in Scotland, 1908.
A weekend at Hackwood, Lord Curzon’s home. Left to right: Lady Ravensdale (Lord Curzon’s daughter), Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, the Duchess of Marlborough, Winston Churchill, Lord D’Abernon, the Marchioness of Salisbury, and the Honorable Mrs. Rochfort Maguire.
Tennis at Esher, the home of Lord D’Abernon. Left to right: Lady Herbert (later Countess of Pembroke), the Duchess of Marlborough, and Arthur James Balfour.
A royal shooting party at Elveden, country seat of Viscount Iveagh, 1912. Left to right: back row, Lord Acheson, Sir Charles Frederick, Major Clive Wigram, Lady Cooper, Lord Valletort, Mrs. E. Guinness, Mr. Rupert Guinness, Lord Iveagh, Mr. E. Guinness, Hon. H. Stonor, Sir Derek Keppel and Marquis de Soveral; front row, Lady Gwendolen Guinness, Lady Iveagh, Duchess of Marlborough, Lady Linlithgow, H. M. King George V, Lady Valletort, Countess Hochberg, Lady Acheson and Count Mensdorff.
Lord Curzon speaking at the opening in 1913 of the Mary Curzon Hostel for Women which was sponsored by the author. She is seated with Princess Victoria on her right and Queen Alexandra on her left (European).
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont speaking at a suffragette meeting at her home in Newport, R. I., in 1914. Her daughter, the author, is seated at the far right (Brown Brothers).
The author’s home in Crowhurst, England – 1907 to 1920.
Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill, at eighteen.
The Marquess of Blandford – the present Duke of Marlborough – at nineteen (Photograph by F. A. Swaine).
The author at a sale in Sunderland House for the benefit of her Home for Prisoners’ Wives. On the right is Prebendary Carlisle, Head of the Church Army (European).
Touring the slums of Southwark with the young Prince of Wales, 1919 (Combine Photos).
The present Duke of Marlborough and his wife – former the Honorable Mary Cadoga, daughter of the Viscount Chelsea – during a visit to Colonel and Madame Balsan at a shooting lodge in Scotland in the twenties.
The author and her husband Colonel Jacques Balsan, with her grandchildren – left to right: Blandford, Caroline Rosemary and Sarah – at Eze in France during the thirties.
The Château at Saint Georges-Motel, Normandy, summer home of the Balsans from 1930 to 1940.
Consuelo and Jacques Balsan on the terrace of Saint Georges-Motel.
Colonel Jacques Balsan, during World War I (Photograph by G. L. Manuel Frères).
The house and formal garden at Lou Sueil, home of the Balsans at Eze, on the French Riviera
Living room in the house at Lou Sueil.
A bedroom.
Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan in 1942 (Photograph by George Hoyningen-Huene).
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan 1953
Introduction copyright © Serena Russell Balfour 2011
All rights reserved.
The right of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan to be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
First published in Great Britain in 1973 by George Mann Books
First published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2011
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ISBN: 978-1444730975
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