Consuelo Yznaga y Clement, Duchess of Manchester

Birth Name: Francisca María de la Consolacion Yznaga also known as Miss Consuela Yznaga del Valle

Wikipedia (English) ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consuelo_Montagu,_Duchess_of_Manchester ... María Consuelo Montagu, Duchess of Manchester (1853 – 20 November 1909), née Doña María Consuelo Yznaga, was a Cuban American woman who married Viscount Mandeville and later became the Duchess of Manchester. ... etc.

Ryan, Pat. Books ... "For Edith Wharton’s Birthday, Hail Ultimate Social Climbers" ... The New York Times, 19 January 2012 ... [A version of this article appears in print on January 20, 2012, on page C25 of the New York edition with the headline: Tales of New York: For Edith Wharton’s Birthday, Hail Ultimate Social Climbers.] ... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/books/heiresses-of-whartons-era-i... ... Consuelo’s namesake, Consuelo Iznaga, a Cuban-American heiress and dear friend of Consuelo Vanderbilt’s mother (the suffragist Alva Smith), married Viscount Mandeville, the future Duke of Manchester, in 1876. Consuelo Iznaga, an acquaintance of Wharton’s, was the basis for the character Conchita Closson in “The Buccaneers.” Poor Conchita ended “head-over-ears in debt,” in love with one man “while tied to another.” As for the real-life couple, the duke was “a feckless philanderer who squandered her money,” Ms. Lee writes in her Wharton biography. See: The Philadelphia Inquirer 07 Mar 1889, Thu ·Page 2 = Lord Manchester a Bankrupt

Smithsonian Channel (4 January 2015) ... Million Dollar American Princesses: Season 1, Episode 1 "Cash for Class" ... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RVW2XHI/ref=dv_dp_ep1 ... Interesting and well researched portrayal of Consuelo--among others--with many photographs accompanying the engrossing narrative of her debut in England and her disappointing marriage to the Duke.