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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 ...
After his death, Cornelia sold Coombe Abbey to a builder named John Grey in 1923 and moved to another Craven estate, Hamstead Lodge in Hamstead Marshall. [2] [3] At Hamstead Marshall, Cornelia often hosted Princess Marie-Louise, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, who divorced her husband Prince Aribert in 1900 at age 28, and never remarried. [3]
The Countess of Suffolk, 1910. Margaret Hyde "Daisy" Leiter was born in Chicago on 1 September 1879. She was the third daughter and youngest of four children born to Mary Theresa (née Carver) and Levi Ziegler Leiter, the co-founder of Field and Leiter dry goods business, and later partner in the Marshall Fields retail empire.
The Duchess of Marlborough, c. 1903, by Paul César Helleu Determined to secure the highest-ranking mate possible for her only daughter, a union that would emphasize the preeminence of the Vanderbilt family, Alva engineered a meeting between Consuelo and the indebted, titled Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, chatelain of Blenheim Palace.
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Mary Goelet was born in 1878. Her parents were Mary Wilson Goelet (1855–1929) [2] and Ogden Goelet (1851–1897), a prominent heir and landlord in New York City and great-grandson of Peter Goelet, heir to one of the largest fortunes of the time.
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