Anne de Courcy sets the stories of these young women and their families in the context of their times. From 1874 - the year that Jennie Jerome, the first known Dollar Princess, married Randolph Churchill - to 1905, dozens of young American heiresses married into the British peerage, bringing with them all the fabulous wealth, glamour and sophistication of the Gilded Age. The incomers were a group of young women who, fifty years earlier, would have been looked on as the alien denizens of another world - the New World, to be precise. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached. Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. Book Synopsis A delicious group biography of the young American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century - the real women who inspired Downton Abbey. About the Book A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married into the impoverished British aristocracy at the turn of the 20th century-the real women who inspired Downton Abbey.y.
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