The glitter and the gold.

Description:

This book is so much fun. If you're interested in the history of the upper class in the US or England, it is well worth checking this book out. Parts of it are laugh-out-loud funny, such as the description of dinner with the Duke; others are edge-of-your-seat exciting, such has her escape from the oncoming Germans in WWI; and others are just poignant, such as some of the anecdotes from her childhood. She is a classy lady and only kisses and tells about those she thinks really deserve it (mainly her first husband).

subjects: Social life and customs,  Vanderbilt family,  Nobility, great britain,  Great britain, biography,  Inheritance and succession,  Women, united states, biography,  United states, social life and customs,  France, social life and customs,  Great britain, social life and customs,  Churchill family,  Manners and customs,  Heiresses,  Biography,  Nobility,  United states, biography

People: Churchill family,  Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan,  Consuelo Vanderbilt Marlborough Duchess of

Places: Great Britain,  United States,  France

Times: 20th century