"Rank squanders money; trade makes it;--and then trade purchases rank by re-gilding its splendour." --Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now Consuelo Vanderbilt, the most famous of the Dollar Princesses, was also the most beautiful. It should have been a win-win for her husband the Duke, nicknamed "Sunny" (but whose dreary personality was anything but). Yet lurking beneath Consuelo's lovely exterior was a brilliant mind and a sensitive disposition. Her autobiography The Glitter and the Gold relates the story of this ill-fated marriage. |