Season 3 of The Gilded Age just delivered what may be its most devastating moment yet: a wedding. Not just any wedding, but one that, as fans have been shocked to learn, was inspired by a real-life ...

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

Gladys Russell’s wedding gown in “The Gilded Age” was a couture creation inspired by real-life heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt.

Palm Beach,” on Netflix, coming in December, promises to reveal “the Southern socialites at the center of all the opulence.” ...

While Gladys' season 3 storyline may seem a bit too extreme to be made up, even it was based on the experiences of the real ...

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, ...

Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, once a society fixture, is the real life inspiration behind one of the central characters in ...

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 and Gladys Russell from 'The Gilded Age' (Image: Hulton Archive, HBO) The Gilded Age was an era of social climbing, flaming fortunes, and grounded revolutions that changed America ...

Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan was a Palm Beach society fixture from the time she settled in Manalapan with her second husband until her death in 1964.

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

The marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt may have been ill-fated, but the wedding remains one of the grandest in history—so much so that it inspired the HBO show The Gilded Age.