Three years ago, audiences were introduced to Julian Fellowes’s The Gilded Age, a grand, guilty pleasure which chronicles the colorful lives of New York’s upper crust during the 1880s. Set amidst a rapidly changing social and industrial landscape, the story is centered around an epic old-money-versus-new-money feud between Mrs. Bertha Russell (played by Carrie Coon), the nouveau-riche wife of a controversial railroad tycoon, inspired by Alva K. Vanderbilt, and Mrs. Caroline Schermerhorn Astor (played by Donna Murphy), the de facto queen bee of the city’s elite. Returning to HBO on June 22 for third season, The Gilded Age sees the Russell family attempt to solidify their position atop New York society with advantageous marriages of both their children—love be damned—in a plot point that echoes the true story of Consuelo Vanderbilt.
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