In all, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles. Wallace The Million Dollar Studs by Alice-Leone Moats In a Gilded Cage. It was the peak year of a social phenomenon that began in the Gilded Age after the Civil War and handed down the legacy of Anglomania, Preppies, the Jet Set, even Winston Churchill and Princess Diana, offspring of such Anglo-American alliances. To Marry an English Lord or, How Anglomania Really Got Started by MacColl, Gail McD. To Marry an English Lord or, How Anglomania Really Got Started by Gail MacColl & Carol McD. In 1895, nine American girls, including a Vanderbilt (railroads), LaRoche (pharmaceuticals), Rogers (oil) and Whitney (New York trolleys), married peers of the British realmoXamong them, a duke, an earl, three barons and a knight.
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