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   William K. Vanderbilt and his daughter Consuelo  
   Vanderbilt Churchill Duchess of Marlborough  

William Kissam Vanderbilt left a fortune of $ 55 million, mostly to his two sons, William Kissam Vanderbilt jr and Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, having given his daughter Consuelo the amount of $ 15 million a little earlier.
The first of Willam Kissam and Alvah Vanderbilt's three children and their only daughter, Consuelo Vanderbilt (1877-1964) was the main actor in a society drama which epitomized the spirit of the Gilded Age …

 

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