From the Vanderbilts to the 9th Duke of Marlborough, meet the historical socialites, aristocrats, robber barons, and more ...

Learn about the real people in "The Gilded Age," including J.P. Morgan and Alva Vanderbilt, as the series intertwines history ...

The Gilded Age perfectly captures the essence of a historical drama with its elaborate storylines that are often inspired by ...

The storyline, though fictional, echoes a very real chapter in Gilded Age history—the forced marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt, an American heiress whose union to British nobility became one of the ...

Costume designer Kasia Walicka Maimone dug deep into the lives of New York’s famous families: the Astors, the Goelets, the Livingstons, the Van Rensselaers and the Vanderbilts.

Consuelo Vanderbilt, who married the 9th Duke of Marlborough in 1895, with her son, The Marquess of Blandford, in 1899. She later married Jacques Balsan and moved to Palm Beach..

Her character takes inspiration from Consuelo Vanderbilt’s marriage to Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough.

During a Europe trip, Alva met Charles Spencer-Churchill, the 9th Duke of Marlborough—a man with an aristocratic lineage and an estate deep in debt.

Gladys Russell’s wedding in "The Gilded Age" closely mirrors Consuelo Vanderbilt’s real-life marriage to the Duke of ...