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A 1928 news report suggested that an unnamed American dollar princess might be last in the running to wed Boris III of Bulgaria. [10] Consuelo Yznaga became Viscountess Mandeville, and was the inspiration for Edith Wharton's The Buccaneers. She became the Duchess of Manchester when her husband succeeded to the dukedom in March 1890 [2]
Catherine Murat, Princess Murat (née Catherine Daingerfield Willis) This is a non-exhaustive list of some American socialites, so called American dollar princesses, from before the Gilded Age to the end of the 20th century, who married into the European titled nobility, peerage, or royalty. The titles in this list are all mentioned or ...
The Dollar Princess is a musical in three acts, with music by Leo Fall, adapted into English by Basil Hood with lyrics by Adrian Ross (from the 1907 Die Dollarprinzessin with a German-language libretto by A. M. Willner and Fritz Grünbaum, after a comedy by Gatti-Trotha).
Cornelia Craven, Countess of Craven (née Martin; September 22, 1877 – May 24, 1961) was an American-born heiress who married into the British aristocracy and was known as one of the "Dollar Princesses". She was also a prominent art collector.
Consuelo as a child Consuelo as a teenager. Born in New York City, Consuelo was the only daughter and eldest child of William Kissam Vanderbilt, a New York railroad millionaire, and his first wife, Alva Erskine Smith, a Southern belle, budding suffragist, and daughter of Murray Forbes Smith.
Margaret "Daisy" Howard, Countess of Suffolk (born Margaret Hyde Leiter; 1 September 1879 – 5 March 1968) was an American-born heiress who married into the British aristocracy and was known as one of the "Dollar Princesses".
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Portrait by John Singer Sargent, 1907. Consuelo Yznaga was born in 1853, in New York City, [5] the second of four children of diplomat Don Antonio Modesto Yznaga del Valle and Ellen Maria Clement of Ravenswood Plantation, Concordia Parish, Louisiana, Louisiana, paternal granddaughter of José Antonio de Yznaga y Borrell wife María Francisca del Valle y Castillo and maternal granddaughter of ...