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A new edition of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan's memoir—the story of the "real" Lady Grantham of Downton AbbeyConsuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful, and heir to a vast fortune. She was also in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to marry an English Duke. She sailed to England as the Duchess of Marlborough in 1895 and took up residence in her new home—Blenheim Palace. She was the real American heiress who lived long before Downton Abbey's Lady Grantham arrived.Mme. Balsan is an unsnobbish and amused observer of the intricate hierarchy both upstairs and downstairs and a revealing witness to the glittering balls, huge weekend parties, and major state occasions she attended or hosted chronicling her encounters with every important figure of the day—from Queen Victoria, Edward VII and Queen Alexandra to Tsar Nicholas and the young Winston Churchill. The Glitter and the Gold is a richly enjoyable memoir is a revealing portrait of a golden age now being celebrated every week behind the doors of Downton Abbey.

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Consuelo Balsan's autobiography will be of interest to anyone who enjoys Downton Abbey. The book is not as entertaining as the television show, but there are some good parts. It begins with Consuelo's birth and takes the reader through her childhood where she lived in luxurious surroundings but at the mercy of a mercurial mother who insisted that "children be seen and not heard." Alva, the mother, insisted on Consuelo's marriage to the impoverished Duke of Marlborough and thwarted Consuelo's desire to marry someone else. Once married, Consuelo takes the reader across to England and describes life as a duchess in an old, stately mansion. After she produces the heir and the spare to the ducal dynasty, Consuelo parts from her husband and lives in London where she gets involved in the suffragette movement, finds love again with Jacques Balsan and eventually moves to France where they live happily as husband and wife. She describes their idyllic life, both in southern France and in the magnificent chateau she bought with her Vanderbilt millions where the couple lived until the outbreak of World War II which forced their evacuation from occupied France.It is at the end where the book leaves much to be desired. The reader is left hanging as Consuelo sets off for America, her homeland, and somewhere she has not lived for nearly 45 years. It would have been nice to know how she reacquainted herself with the States and how she re-adapted to her native country. Consuelo name drops throughout her book but there doesn't seem to be much substance to the stories she offers about the famous people in her life. No one, not even her two husbands, is more than a two-dimensional character. Perhaps it was her tendency to hold back on describing people fully because it isn't the thing to do, at least among the elite.Consuelo was taught to give back to society and she performs admirably by opening her houses to politicians, suffragettes, social workers and fundraisers and she even operates a sanatorium in France. But her writing is stilted, relying heavily on flowery phrases that show, at least to this reader, that she could be a bit stuffy. Her book could have used a little more gossip and information about the players around her, because that is what the readers want, but if you like Downton, you will enjoy this book.

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