Crowninshield wrote in a 1940s issue of Vogue: “The bride’s unhappy father was obliged to sign a contract, the sealing of which the prudent Duke had, from the very first, insisted upon. The contract involved, among other sundries, the payment to His Grace of two and a half million dollars, a sum so tidy that the Most Noble Charles Richard John, etc., was able not only to renovate Blenheim, his historic palace near Oxford, but to build, as well, one of the most prideful residences in London—Sunderland House, at the end of Curzon Street, in Mayfair.”

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