The Million Dollar Duchesses: How America's Heiresses Seduced the Aristocracy

POWER, SCANDAL, GLAMOUR, FAME
 
On 6th November 1895, the beautiful and brilliant heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt was wedded to the near-insolvent Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough in a dazzling yet miserable match – it glittered above all others for high society’s marriage brokers who, in this single year, forged a series of spectacular, and lucrative, transatlantic unions.

The bankrupt and ailing British aristocracy was suddenly injected with all the wealth and glamour of America's newest dynasties. Millions of dollars changed hands as fame, money, power and privilege were all at play.
 
Brimful of scandal, illicit affairs, spurned loves and unexpected tragedy, The Million Dollar Duchesses reveals the closed-door bargaining which led to these most influential matches and how America’s heiresses shook-up British high society for ever. 
 

• The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
• The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York
• Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls
• Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt
• An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew
• American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt
• The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home
• The Quest for Queen Mary
• When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age
• Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the British Royal Household