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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 71820, member: 44&quot;]Winston&#039;s mother, Jennie Jerome, certainly had an interesting life to put it mildly. I have the 2 volume biography <i>Jennie, The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill </i>by Ralph Martin. Boy, my life has been&nbsp; dull, humdrum, in comparison. Back in that day the impoverished nobility looked for a wealthy American heiress to save the family estates, and parents of wealthy American heiresses combed the nobility market for a title to add to their possessions. Love didn&#039;t enter the picture for the grubbing parents of these matches on either side of the big pond. Consuelo Vanderbilt was very much in love with a young man that her mother felt wasn&#039;t socially high enough for her daughter. The mother was the one that approached the Duke who supposedly jumped at the offer. Today the daughters would probably flip off their parents wishes.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, a few years ago,I had my picture taken sitting on that Conservatory wrought iron bench. Hmmmm... wonder in a 100 years or so if people will speculate that I most have been a notable person to be in those surroundings. I highly recommend anyone in the Ashville, NC, area take the time to tour the Biltmore. The house itself is the largest American home in the country. The estate has it all: history, architecture, furnishings, antiques, gardens, scenic vistas of the Smoky Mts., ... </p><p><a href="http://www.biltmore.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.biltmore.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.biltmore.com</a></p><p><a href="http://www.biltmore.com/visit/visitor-information/suggested-itineraries" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.biltmore.com/visit/visitor-information/suggested-itineraries" rel="nofollow">http://www.biltmore.com/visit/visitor-information/suggested-itineraries</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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