Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt

by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart

  Malone, Dudley Field 371, 375, 433

  Manchester, 8th Duke of (Viscount Mandeville) 49–50

  Manchester, Duchess of (nee Consuelo Yznaga) 30, 40–41; Consuelo’s godmother 50, 109; daughter’s death 110–11; eccentricity 49; guest of honour at Vanderbilt ball 60, 63; literary interests 354; lovers 109–11; marriage 49–50, 109, 113; relations with Alva 42, 46; and Wharton 402, 425–6; widowed 50; as Viscountess

  Mandeville 50, 60

  Mandeville, Viscount, see Manchester, 8th Duke of Mandeville, Viscountess seeManchester, Duchess of

  Mangold, Ernest 448

  Mann, Col. D’Alton 104–5, 183, 245, 298, 302, 521n

  Manning, Bishop 415–19, 423, 425, 428, 447

  Mansart, Jules Hardouin 90

  Marble House, Newport 100, 372, 403; Alva’s ownership 111; balls 116, 118, 127–9, 342–3, 349; bought back by Harold 499; construction of 78–9; Consuelo’s life in 91–2, 119; interior 89–91, 214; Marlborough’s stay 126; opened 92; ‘social workers’ conference’ 341–7; sold 440, 448; suffrage meetings 311–13, 315, 335, 364

  Marie, Peter 41

  Marlborough, 1st Duke, John Churchill xxi, 134, 165, 166, 205, 227

  Marlborough, 3rd Duke, Charles Spencer 166

  Marlborough, 4th Duke, George Spencer 166–7, 264

  Marlborough, 5th Duke, George Spencer-Churchill 167, 168

  Marlborough, 6th Duke, George Spencer-Churchill 167

  Marlborough, 7th Duke, John Winston Spencer-Churchill 167–8, 169, 171

  Marlborough, 8th Duke, George Spencer-Churchill 117, 164, 168–70, 213

  MARLBOROUGH, 9TH DUKE, Charles Richard John (Sunny) Spencer-Churchill

  LIFE: affair with Gladys Deacon 250, 253, 255, 259, 262–3, 274–5, 361; annulment of marriage 412–24; arrested in Central Park 138, 139; attentions to Consuelo 103, 116–18, 139; birth 169; and Blenheim 164, 172, 201, 202, 204, 214, 223, 459; Boer War 226, 245–7; brings Consuelo to Blenheim 192–7; childhood 169–70, 172, 239; in Consuelo’s memoirs 487, 489, 491; death 237, 452, 454; divorce 361, 389–91, 423; engagement to Consuelo 133–6; financial problems 170–71; honeymoon 149–50, 172–5, 177–86; inherits title 170–71, 172; insures Consuelo’s life 182, 238, 522n; as historian 164, 165; marriage difficulties 236, 237, 245, 248–50, 261, 452–4; marries Consuelo 4, 6–7, 139, 142–3, 146–9, 151, 155, 172, 418; Newport visit 118, 122, 123–4, 126–32; political career 226–7, 249–50 259–60, 266–7, 269, 353–4, 383; and press 112, 125, 132, 136–40, 150–51, 172, 174, 520n; public interest in 143, 173–4; relations with Consuelo 149, 178, 183–6, 237–40, 242, 255, 257, 267, 269, 353, 359–61; relations with Consuelo’s family 298; relations with royals 213–14, 281, 289; remarriage 391, 452–3; separation from Consuelo 269–70, 272–7

  PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: anti-American sentiments 174–5, 238, 240, 249, 383; appearance 103, 126, 137, 192, 219; class-consciousness 149, 163, 171, 238, 244, 288; depression 241, 277–8, 289, 360; domineering streak 238, 239; dress 175, 208, 221–2; Epstein bust of 452; insecurity 263; insensitivity 183, 238, 239; intellect 164; isolation following separation 289; ostentation 180–81, 184–5, 205–6, 208, 210, 214, 229, 238; personality 132, 163–4, 169, 172 181, 238, 261, 454; portraits 264–5; religion 413; self-absorption 238–9; self-pity 363; snobbery 243; temper 239, 360–61

  Marlborough, 10th Duke, John Albert Edward William Spencer-Churchill (Consuelo’s son) 359, 477, 483–4, 538n; attends Alva’s funeral 441–2; attends Consuelo’s second wedding 392; birth 222–3, 250, 298; children of 412; christening 223–4; and Consuelo’s death 501, 503; on Consuelo’s memoirs 488; dress sense 484; inherits title 459; manner of speech 483–4; marriage 387, 389; military service 363–4; and parents’ separation 276; personality 483; portraits 264–5; taste for actresses 383; visits Balsans 483

  Marlborough, Consuelo, Duchess of see Vanderbilt, C.

  Marlborough, Frances, Dowager Duchess of 103, 167–8, 179, 191, 220, 222

  Marlborough, Lilian, Duchess of (Hammersley) 117, 168

  Marlborough, Mary, Duchess of (Consuelo’s daughter-in-law) 387, 389, 392, 441–2, 488, 498

  Marlborough, Sarah, first Duchess of 165–6

  Marlborough House Set 102, 181, 231

  Marlborough School of Mothercraft 332

  Marshall, Charles C. 423

  Marshall, Thomas R. 386

  Martindale, Father 413, 423

  Martineau, Harriet 401

  Mary, Queen 330

  Mary Curzon Hostel for Women 331, 358, 388

  Masham, Abigail 166

  Mason, A. E. W. 269

  Masses, The 328

  Masterson, Kate 261

  Maud, Princess 216, 219

  Mauritania 303

  Maxwell, Elsa 405, 417, 440, 447, 449; and Alva’s will 439, 449; assessment of Alva 447; composer of operetta 367; on Consuelo’s love of France 479; lesbianism 367, 404; quarrels with Balsans 473; relations with Alva 367, 398, 437; visits Balsans 471–2

  May, Henry 401

  Maze, Paul 456–8, 460–2, 465, 492

  Maze, Pauline 456, 462

  Melinda and Her Sisters (operetta) 367–9

  Melton Mowbray 221, 243, 524n

  Mensdorff, Count Albert 229, 253, 257, 355–361

  Mercer, Lucy 154

  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 91, 478; Costume Institute 505–7

  Metropolitan Opera, New York 65, 73

  Metternich, Count 253–4

  Michael, Grand Duke 230

  ‘Mike’ (Egyptian pageboy) 183–4, 201

  Milholland, Inez 327, 372–3

  Miller, Paul 90, 214

  Mills, Mrs Ogden 295

  Milner, Alfred 331

  Milner, Henry 229

  Mobile, Alabama 21, 22–4, 91

  Monkswell, Lady 208

  Montagu, Lady Alice 110

  Montagu, Lady May Alva 110–11

  Monte Carlo 179–80, 183, 238, 400

  Montesquiou, Comte Robert de 252

  Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh 167

  Moran, Lord 471–2

  Morand, Paul 356–7, 358

  Morgan, H. Wayne 43

  Morgan, John Pierpont 79, 88

  Morning Post 246

  Morrell, Lady Ottoline 452

  Morton, Alice 154

  Morton, Edith 6, 146, 147

  Morton, Governor Levi P. 149, 154

  Morton, Major 475–6

  Muir, Lady Rosemary (nee Spencer-Churchill, Consuelo’s granddaughter) 477, 478, 483, 494, 503

  Munich Agreement 458

  Munsey’s Magazine 4, 19, 506

  Murat, Prince Achille 31

  Napoleon III, Emperor 31, 32, 33

  Nash, Beau 37

  National American Woman Suffrage Association 315, 318; Alva’s disenchantment with 319–21, 324, 327–9, 340; Alva joins 305–6; conservatism 308–9, 337, 366, 445; disbanded 406; headquarters 309, 311, 316, 324, 340, 385, 444; histories of 447; Shaw’s presidency 309, 316; state-by-state approach to suffrage 327; wartime truce 373

  National Anti-Sweating League 334, 335

  National Efficiency movement 331–2

  National Physical Recreation Society 331

  National Suffrage Convention 340

  National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) 309, 321–2, 329

  National Woman’s Party (NWP) 446, 447; and Alva’s funeral 441–3; Alva’s last communication with 439; Alva leaves newspaper clippings to 430; Alva’s political ambitions for 406–9, 432; Alva’s presidency 409, 411, 433; bequest in Alva’s will 448; end of 403; excluded from IWSA 410–11, 415; friction with Alva 435–6, 437; headquarters 409, 433–4, 436, 438, 448; international interests 410, 438–9; lesbianism 404; militancy 373, 385–6, 445; pickets White House 373, 374–5, 385, 445; see also Congressional Union; see also Woman’s Party

  National Women’s Trades Union League 345

  Neagle, Dame Anna 289

  Neustretter, Nellie 105, 107, 109–11

  New Dorp, Stat
en Island 12, 50

  New Liberalism 287–8, 332

  New York 82, 106; architecture 55–6, 58; economic boom 33–4; gentlemen’s clubs 28, 38; Grand Central Terminal 15; poverty 43–4; press 103–5, 125, 134, 136–40, 174; prostitution 87; shirt-waist strikers 316–17, 442; Smith family in 24, 27–30, 33, 37; society 16–17, 27–8, 30, 33–42, 77, 84, 103–4, 295; wealth 34–6 New York Call 346

  New York Central Railroad 15, 18, 51, 135, 450, 484

  New York City Journal 66, 70

  New York City Mail 323

  New York City Tribune 323

  New York Customs House 140

  New York Evening Journal 291, 320

  New York Evening Sun 313

  New York Herald 35, 104, 165, 175, 176, 297; on Consuelo’s marriage 140–41, 145, 147, 149, 150; on Marlborough’s US visit 126, 127, 130, 134; on suffragists 343, 345

  New York Journal 408, 498

  New York Mail and Express 307

  New York Stock Exchange 35

  New York Sun 74, 321, 369, 433

  New York Telegraph 369

  New York Times 3, 6, 47, 79; on Alva’s article 408; on Alva’s feud with Bishop 417; on Alva’s funeral 442, 444; on annulment of Marlborough marriage 415, 416, 419, 423, 534n; on Consuelo’s funeral 502; on Consuelo’s marriage 144, 145, 148, 151, 250; on Consuelo’s separation and divorce 289, 390; on Consuelo’s social work 293, 333; obituaries 50; society column 104; on suffragists 327, 339, 343, 344, 368, 411; New York Tribune 112, 137, 385

  New York World 104, 142, 176, 297; Alva’s articles for 328; on Alva’s divorce 89, 108–10; on Consuelo’s marriage 1, 3–4, 144, 145, 147, 148; on Consuelo and Rutherfurd 112; detectives 118; ‘Diary of the Most Interesting Couple in America’ 139; on Marlborough’s US visit 134, 136–40, 143; scoops Vanderbilt ball 64; on suffragists 313, 314, 318, 320, 385

  New York Yacht Club 131

  Newport, Rhode Island 82, 159; Bridge Club 300; cars banned 299; Consuelo feted in 349; Field in 375–7; Golf Club 113, 116, 126; Preservation Society 90, 214, 379, 499; Marlborough’s visit 118, 122, 123–4, 126–32; Smith family holidays in 27, 30, 76; society 76–8, 94, 112, 294–7, 300; suffragists in 311–14, 327, 341–3, 345; summer cottages 76–7, 202, 214; see also Marble House

  Newport Daily News 133

  Newport Journal 126–7, 134

  Newport Mercury 126

  Nicholas II, Tsar 229, 230–31

  Nicolson, Harold 495

  Nineteenth Century and After, The 331

  Noel, Leon 476

  Nolan, Mary 375

  Norfolk, Duke of 259

  North American Review 290, 291, 305, 391

  North Southwark 383, 386–7

  North Star 16, 17

  Obolensky, Prince Serge 399, 502

  Oelrichs, Blanche 82, 93, 94, 135

  Oelrichs, Lily 312

  Oelrichs, Lucie, see Jay, Lucie

  Oelrichs, Mrs 86

  Oelrichs, Tessie 294, 295–7, 312, 345, 372

  Ohio Star 346

  Old Fields, Long Island 471, 479, 496, 537n

  O’Sullivan, Mrs Fitzstephen 332–3

  Oxford 217, 219; Bishop of 413; University 83, 218, 330

  Oxford Times 192, 195, 197, 523n

  Oxfordshire Hussars 224

  Paget, Arthur 49

  Paget, Lady (Minnie, nee Stevens) 426; facilitates Consuelo’s meeting with Duke 102–3, 116–17; friendship with Alva 40, 46; gossip 271; marriage 49; social position 40–41, 42, 102

  Pall Mall Magazine 164

  Pankhurst, Christabel 338–9, 405

  Pankhurst, Emmeline 321, 326, 335, 338, 339, 373

  Pankhursts: Alva’s relations with 335–9, 430, 445; militancy 329 344; wartime truce 364; and WSPU 292, 309–10

  Paris 55, 180, 269–70; Alva in 25, 30–33, 410; Consuelo visits 81–2, 99, 115–16, 184–5, 245, 248, 250; Consuelo’s debut 100–101; Consuelo’s house in 390, 395–6, 432, 477; Deacon in 255, 258–9, 391; horse racing 242, 245; William K. in 105, 107, 245

  Parsons, Schuyler 53

  Patriarchs 37, 60, 61, 112

  Patterson, Jerry E. 163, 485–6

  Patti, Adelina 65

  Pau, France 464, 466

  Paul, Alice 346, 348, 349, 403, 404, 449; and Alva’s funeral 441–3; on Alva’s personality 446; arrested 375, 385; CU leader 339–41, 365; equal rights amendment 406, 409, 410, 445; militancy 339, 366, 373–5, 386, 445; relations with Alva 341, 365, 374, 403, 411, 434, 439; relations with Stevens 448; visits Augerville 433–4; on Woman’s Party 370, 408–9

  Pauncefote, Sir Julian 143, 148

  Pelier, Louise 31

  People 422–3

  Perkins, Mr 117, 216, 225

  Pétain, Marshal Henri-Philippe 472–3, 474

  Phelps, Col. 140

  Pittsburgh Times 335

  Political Equality Association (PEA) 343, 345, 365, 366; closure 385; Department of Hygiene 325–6, 328; founded 316; headquarters 316, 324–5, 385; lunchroom 323, 324; Negro Men and Women League 317–18; settlements 319

  Portland, Duke and Duchess of 355

  ‘Position of Women, The’ (Consuelo’s articles) 291, 305, 329

  Post, Charles 41

  Post, Daisy 146, 175, 502

  Potter, Bishop 146

  Pougy, Liane de 179

  Powers, Elsie 379

  Powers, Hiram 16

  Pralin, Duc de 31

  Preston, Stuart 487

  Pretoria, South Africa 246

  Prince, Norman 382

  Pritzelwitz, Col. von 253, 254

  Prochaska, Frank 285

  Progressives 383–4, 386

  Proust, Marcel 62

  Pulitzer, Joseph 104, 136

  Queen Mary’s Hospital 261, 388

  Redding, Josephine 141

  Reilly, Caroline 341, 364

  Representation of the People Act (1918) 373

  Reynolds, Sir Joshua 264

  Roberts, Lord 226, 246–7

  Robinson, Helen Ring 345, 346

  Rome 182, 259

  Ronald, Reginald 5

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. 471, 472, 474, 475

  Roosevelt, Theodore 34, 281

  Rosa, Mr 82

  Rosalie (Consuelo’s maid) 200

  Rosebery, Lord 178–9, 354

  Ross, Ellen 332

  Rota 133, 414, 415, 418, 419–21, 424

  Rothermere, Lord 398

  Rothschild, Baron Louis de 466

  Rowntree, Seebohm 288

  Rowse, A. L. 163, 168, 181, 188, 215, 360

  Roxburghe, Duke of 82, 157, 270

  Royal Free Hospital 362, 388

  Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria 80

  Russell, Edwin 482

  Russell, Lady Sarah (nee Spencer-Churchill, Consuelo’s granddaughter) 459, 480, 482, 496, 498, 501, 503

  Russia 228–31, 256, 459

  Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris 83, 112, 114, 526n

  Rutherfurd, Winthrop 132, 156, 157; background 112–13; Consuelo’s romance with 112–15, 491; and Marlborough annulment 419, 421; marriage 154; separated from Consuelo by Alva 114–15, 119–20, 121, 122; wedding gift to Marlboroughs 143; Wharton and 402

  Rylance, Dr J. H. 146

  Ryman, Mrs 195, 200, 224

  Sackville-West, Vita: The Edwardians 201

  St Georges-Motel, France 431, 455–7, 459–65, 477–8, 495, 538n; children’s sanatorium 456, 461–6

  St Petersburg 229–30

  St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue: Alva’s funeral 441–2; Consuelo’s funeral 501–2; Consuelo’s wedding 2–3, 5–6, 11, 144, 145

  Salisbury, Lady 215

  Salisbury, Lord 180, 188, 213, 226, 259, 266

  Salisbury Hall, St Albans 271

  San Francisco Voters Convention 366

  Sandringham 214

  Saratoga 76

  Sargent, John Singer xxi, 247, 264–5

  Schiff, Dorothy 471

  Schlichting, Kurt 15

  Schneiderman, Rose 345, 346

  S
chofield, Mabel 366

  Scotland 81

  Sears, Eleonara 372

  Second Empire France 31, 32–3, 55

  Segonzac, André Dunoyer de 456, 457–8, 495

  Selznick, David O. 494

  Seminole 370, 371, 372

  Seneca Falls Convention (1848) 308, 312

  Sevres, Mademoiselle de 32

  Sewall-Belmont House see Alva Belmont House, Washington

  Shaw, Anna Howard: Alva’s relations with 316, 384; enlists Alva in National American 305–6, 318; in London 321; Marble House speech 313; non-militant views 322, 324, 337, 339, 366–7; President of National American 305–6, 309, 311, 319; strikers addressed by 317

  Shaw, George Bernard 283, 354

  Shearburn, Mary 461

  Sheridan, Gen. Philip 29

  Sherman, Gen. William 29

  Shuvalova, Countess Olga 229

  Sice, General 475

  Sloane, Adele 83, 120, 157

  Sloane, Emily 120

  Slocum, Eileen 94, 122

  Smith, Alfred 76

  Smith, Alva Erskine, see Belmont, A.

  Smith, Armide (Alva’s sister) 31, 39, 86, 143, 304

  Smith, Desha (Alva’s brother) 39

  Smith, F. E. (1st Earl of Birkenhead) 164, 361

  Smith, Jane Norman 411

  Smith, Jenny, see Tiffany, J.

  Smith, Julia (Alva’s sister) 28, 304

  Smith, Murray Forbes (Alva’s father) 21; business activities 21, 24, 30; death 48, 87; financial problems 38, 40, 42, 43, 44; homes 27, 38, 91; ill health 44, 46; moves to Paris 30–31; relations with daughters 23; returns to New York 33, 37; as slave owner 29; social standing 28, 35, 37–8

  Smith, Murray Forbes Jr (Alva’s brother) 23, 39

  Smith, Phoebe (nee Desha, Alva’s mother): Alva’s relations with 22, 26–7; death 38–9, 86; family background 21; marriage 21; and slaves 24; social standing 23, 28; travels 25, 30–31, 80

  Smythe, Dame Ethel 443

  Soames, Mary (nee Churchill) 164, 398, 460–61, 481, 503

  Sommi Picardi, Marquess 436

  Souls 355, 357

  South Africa 226, 245–6

  Southern Woman Suffrage Conference 531n

  Spain 178

  Spectator 313–14

  Spencer, Earl 210

  Spencer-Churchill, Lord Ivor Charles (Consuelo’s son) 224, 359, 363, 389, 458; appearance 495; art collection 495; and Consuelo’s memoirs 488, 490, 494; at Consuelo’s second wedding 392; death 495–6; Epstein bust of 452; grave 502, 504; marriage 494; and parents’ separation 276; personality 495–6; portrait 264–5; relations with Consuelo 495; war work 475