The storyline, though fictional, echoes a very real chapter in Gilded Age history—the forced marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt, ...

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

Five prominent Palm Beach socialites—Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, Marjorie Merriweather Post, Eva Cromwell Stotesbury, Mona ...

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

The character's plot line closely mirrors that of Consuelo Vanderbilt, who tied the knot with the Duke of Marlborough in 1895 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Gilded Age was a period in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century during whereby several extremely wealthy families managed to construct behemoth houses based on European palaces.

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

As a historical drama, The Gilded Age does its best to stay true to the time period in which it is set, the 1880s. Although ...