Oscar Wilde, J.P. Morgan and Mamie Fish are a few of the real people who have appeared on the HBO historical series ...

Only time will tell if the life of Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough hints at what's to come for Gladys on the HBO period ...

Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan was a Palm Beach society fixture from the time she settled in Manalapan with her second husband ...

On November 6, 1895, the 18-year-old Consuelo Vanderbilt married Charles, the ninth Duke of Marlborough at St. Thomas’s ...

Gladys Russell has had a huge season 3 story, and episode 4 only cemented that further, but the downtrodden character ...

Consuelo Vanderbilt was the best known “dollar princess”—or, American heiresses that English aristocrats married for their ...

Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, Marjorie Merriweather Post, Eva Cromwell Stotesbury, Mona Williams Bismarck, and Anita O’Keeffe Young—left indelible marks on society. These women, known for their wealth, ...

They did, however, have an insanely lavish wedding.

Gladys Russell's show-stopping wedding gown was designed by a worldwide team of artisans—and nodded to a real-life heiress.

Screenwriter Julian Fellowes has been known to borrow from history for his phenomenally successful period dramas before, and now, it seems that The Gilded Age creator has used the tragic tale of ...

Alva Belmont was a prominent Gilded Age socialite who married a Vanderbilt railroad heir. Later in life, she became a women's ...

John Singer Sargent is a minor character in the third season of HBO's "The Gilded Age"—but he was the major high society ...