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Gloria Vanderbilt (Senior – mother to the ‘Poor Little Rich Girl’ Gloria who passed away earlier this year) and her identical twin sister Thelma (pronounced as in the Spanish: ‘Telma’) Viscountess Furness began life ‘on the Continent’, daughters of the peripatetic and well-connected couple, Laura and Harry Hays Morgan, a career diplomat.
Little Gloria was living in the United States. Mother Gloria was in Europe and didn’t seem to mind the situation at all—she didn't spend much time with her daughter anyway. But then a trustee of the estate decided that Morgan Vanderbilt didn’t need quite so much money anymore. She wasn’t caring for the child after all.
Jun 17, 2019 · Born in New York City on Feb. 20, 1924, Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt arrived to much fanfare as the daughter of railroad empire heir Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt and his second wife, Gloria Morgan.
Jun 25, 2018 · Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt (widow of Reginald Vanderbilt) with her daughter Gloria Laura. 1926. Photograph. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images) And in this world, although “the one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom,” due to the fact that “people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box,” more often than not, equality and justice are merely ...
Jun 18, 2019 · Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt was born Feb. 20, 1924, in New York City. She was the only child of Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt and his second wife, Gloria Morgan, a teenage socialite less than ...
Jun 17, 2019 · Born in New York in 1924, Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt grew up in France. Her father, financier Reginald Vanderbilt, the heir to a railroad fortune, died when she was a baby.
Indeed, it seemed like Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt was destined for a wonderful life of privilege when she was born on February 20, 1924. Her father, Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, was a great-grandson of railroad and shipping magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, one of America’s richest men.
