Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Mother and a Daughter in the ‘Gilded Age’A fabulously wealthy New York beauty marries a cold hearted British aristocrat at the behest of her Machiavellian mother then leaves him to become a prominent Suffragette. Consuelo Vanderbilt was one of the greatest heiresses of the late 19th century, a glittering prize for suitors on both sides of the Atlantic. When she married, a crowd of over 2,000 onlookers gathered, and newspapers frenziedly reported every detail of the event, right down to the