“PRINCELY MARRIAGES”

Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1926, Page 9

“PRINCELY MARRIAGES”

OUTSPOKEN CRITICISM PENCHANT OF RICH AMERICANS. SIDELIGHTS ON RECENT EVENTS. Br Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. New York, Nov. 21. Cornelius Vanderbilt, jun., in a copyrighted article in the New York Amercan, on Sunday, says his cousin Consuelo, formerly Duelwss of Marlborough, was “sold by the hierarchy, better known as the Four Hundred, in which her parents are the dominant fae. to the Duke of Marlborough. The recent annulment of the marriage by the Catholic Church has created ail inter-' national stir. Mr. Vanderbilt says: “It is no family secret now to tell that Consuelo, when she was forced to marry the Duke of Marlborough, was in love with an American, a handsome young man who later made a name for himself greater than he inherited, and greater than that of the man she was forced to marry.'' Concluding his condemnation of the penchant of wealthy American families for “jrineely marriages,” Mr. Vanderbilt says: “There is one family in New York which for the past ten years has exerted every effort to form an alliance with the British Crown. If the Parliament of Britain would set aside a certain ceremony required as precedent to such marriage it would be possible, and a New York girl, not so distantly related to t>>e writer, would become the future Queen of England.”