The Buccaneers' Conchita Conchi Closson is based on a famous real life figure.
This article contains spoilers forThe Buccaneersthrough episode 6.
Wharton in fact modeled her character after Consuelo Vanderbilt, the real-life wife of a tycoon.
Everyone wants to be friends with her, everybody wants her at their party.
Were so steeped in period dramas that are all about the bit before the wedding.
Her friends visiting from New York to make it find their own husbands is what saves Conchi from boredom.
In the following episodes, the happily ever after she expected doesnt pan out.
Conchi struggles with feeling like an outsider around her in-laws, the Brightlingseas.
Some of these conversations have clear racial overtones as well.
We wanted her to feel that shes obviously a fish out of water, Jakeways says.
Consuelo Vanderbilt in real life wasthe daughter of William Kissiam Vanderbilt and his first wife Alva Erskine Smith.
Her uncle was railroad tycoonCornelius Vanderbilt II, who many people associate with this era.
She turned down the offers of several American and British suitors.
Consuelosmother eventually forced her to marryCharles Spencer-Churchill, the 9th Duke of Marlborough in 1895.
She was named after her godmotherConsuelo Yznaga Montagu, the Duchess of Manchester.
She became the Duchess of Manchester in 1890 when her husband inherited the title.
Whartons novel blends both Montagu and Vanderbilts.
They want Conchitas money, but they dont want Conchita, Willis says.
And that is a really horrible experience for her.
The repeated micro and macro aggressions take a toll on Conchi and Dickies relationship.
Conchi and Dickie separating is also similar to Consuelos story.
They formally separated in 1906 and were officially divorced in 1921.
Consuelo was well-known for her philanthropic work but unlike Conchi was largely viewed as popular in society.
Can Conchi and Dickie avoid a set-in-stone divorce?
Well have to watch the remaining episodes ofThe Buccaneersto find out!
The first six episodes ofThe Buccaneersare streaming on Apple TV+ with new episodes released on Wednesdays.
