Usually, Gladys Deacon came out to walk round the village ... who became a lasting friend, drew her picture. Even at 16, she was clocking up conquests. The art critic Bernard Berenson fell in ...

She married a duke and was the it-girl of the 1900s, but Gladys Deacon’s world rapidly disintegrated ... Duke of Marlborough in 1895 in New York. Picture: Historical Marl Many men claimed ...

Until March 25 there will be an exhibition in the long library titled Gladys Deacon— An Eccentric Duchess ... the 7th duchess paints a very different picture of her from the apocryphal one.