Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-11
LADY VAUDEVILLE.
The Pretty American Girl Who Mar
ried a Dukes Extravagant Son.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
When the beautiful Senorita Consuelo YZnaga
married the Viscount George Victor Drogo
Vaudeville, the eldest son of the seventh duke
of Manchester, she won title and became a
member of an old and distinguished English
family. But there was very little money with
the title, although one or two castles and a
house in London, with many acres of land in
the north of Ireland. still belonged to the fam
lily. Yesterday Lord Vaudeville was declared
a bankrupt.
Lady Vaudeville has become better known in
New York since her marriage than before it,
for she was a southern girl, native of Louis
lana, and only came north during the summer
to spend few months at Saratoga. The few
who saw her at that then ultra-fashionable re-
sort talk of her girlish beauty and exquisite
voice with admiration.
Her mother was native of Louisiana. her
parents being French. Her father, Senior An
tonic YZnaga del Vale. was a native of Cuba.
and belonged to an old and distinguished Span
ish family. He settled in Louisiana after his
marriage on a great cotton plantation. and here
Lady Vaudeville received her education. She
had an English gOverness, and even went to
the convent at Georgetown, but French was the
language of the family, and she still has a no
ticeable French accent, although her English is
very perfect
reared more like young princess. Her father
owned some 300 slaves, and until after the war
she had four maids to come and 60 at her bid
ding At the close of the war the family was
somewhat poorer, but still lived in their south
ern home surrounded by every luxury, and
after disposing of some property in Cuba they
again were able to come to Saratoga for the
summer, with retinue of ten servants and
horses and carriages.
In 1875, when Senorita Yznaga was but seven
IL Al
States hotel, and at one of the weekly balls was
introduced to the young Viscount Vaudeville.
He was then a handsome youth of twenty-five
summers, TALL slender, and fair, and had come
to America on pleasure trip to .'do the states"
as he expressed it. But during the entire sum-
mer he got no further than Saratoga, for he
had fallen in love with the little Spanish
French-American beauty, and was only waiting
fitting opportunity to lay his heart at her
feet.
The opportunity came one moonlit evening,
as they prOmenaded the hotel piazza and a
diamond bethrOthal ring soon glistened on the
taper finger of the senorita. The duke of Man.
chester was Gully informed of his sons inten-
tions by letter, and, it is said, was almost
heartbroken to think that his son was to bring
to the ancestral halls a little American saw
age, as he called her. The viscount's mother,
who was the Countess Louise Frederick Augusta
Won Alien of Hanover. was also deeply grieved
but they consented, after a struggle, to receive
the young daughter-in-law into the family.
As already remarked above, the wedding took
place during the centennial year. The bride
wore white satin and lace veil that belonged
to her great-grandmother, and which after
ward astonished the duchess of Manchester with
its old age and beauty, and also pearl neck
lace worth $4,000. They sailed for England
and arrived in the spring. in time for the bride
to be presented atcourt. Her youth. beauty
and refinement of manner and speech, her
little French accent, her wedding dowry of
$100, 600 from her father, all won her place in
the affections and admiration of her husbands
relatives and the fashionable London world,
and before August she was the sensation of the
season.
Lady Vaudeville is a most beautiful woman.
Hers is the American-Spanish type of beauty
She has soft, dreamy brown eyes, with deli
cately penciled eyebrows, Jet black, and in di-
rect contrast to the hair, which is golden. Her
forehead is low and broad and her lips remind
one of sculpture. She has vivacious manners
and is an accomplished musician. Her favor
lite instrument is the guitar, ON which she ac-
companies herself when singing. Her sister,
Miss Emily Yznaga, taught the Prince of Wales
how to play on the banjo, and they sometimes
play together with Lady Vaudeville. Lady
Vaudeville has three Children son and two
daughters. 1t is not known whether her pri-
vate fortune has been touched by her husband
or not.