The Million Dollar Duchesses: How America’s Heiresses Seduced the Aristocracy - Softcover

Ferry, Julie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781317879 ISBN 13: 9781781317877

Publisher: Aurum Press, 2018

Synopsis

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. 
 

About this title

About the Author:

Julie Ferry is a freelance journalist and has written for The Guardian, Independent, Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph. She lives with her husband and two children in Bristol. 

Review:

'A fascinating read.' - Town & Country Magazine

‘I always have shelf space for a good and gossipy historical tome and The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau doesn’t disappoint.’  - RED Magazine

‘A wonderfully fun look at a year in which a number of American heiresses married into the British aristocracy.’ - Stylist Magazine

'A riveting read on an overlooked aspect of aristocratic society.' - History of Royals Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Aurum Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1781317879
• ISBN 13: 9781781317877
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304