To Marry an English Lord

The story of over 100 American heiresses who swapped dollars for titles, and the only book that tells how they did it.

PROLOGUE CHAPTER 1 THE BUCCANEERS Old New York The Cut Direct At Home on Washington Square The Mrs. Astor Rule Britannia At Home on Berkeley Square Their Noble Lordships The London Season Pushy Mamas Words for Those on the Outside Wanting In The Age of Revenge Wall Street Father No. 1: The Sporting Man The First Marriages The Wilson Family Scorecard #1: May & Ogden The Last Word CHAPTER 2 THE FAIR INVADERS A Turn in the Tide Calling-Card Protocol The Wilson Family Scorecard #2: Orme & Carrie The Big Showdowns Audacity & Innocence The Genius of Clothes Wall Street Father No. 2: The Silent Partner The Top Dollars The Siege of London The Flip Side: Queen Victoriao_s Court Fifth Avenue Meets the Peerage The Wilson Family Scorecard #3: Belle & Mungo Miss Daisy Miller The Competition Points in Her Campaign Poor Peers Estate Drains Rating a Mate Darling Daisy The Self-Made Girlo_s Wedding CHAPTER 3 AMERICAN HEIRESSES: WHAT WILL YOU BID? He Stoops to Conquer The Other Astors The Princess Diana Connection Dukeo_s Progress: The English Lordo_s American Journey The Plutocrato_s Daughters The Louis Fixation Wall Street Father #3: The Collector The Match of the Century Like Father, Like Son The Newport Schedule Doing the Continental Annus Mirabilis Leto_s Make a Deal She Is Now a Duchess The Heiresso_s Newport The Wilson Family Scorecard #4: Grace & Neily The American Aristocrato_s Wedding The Vanderbilt-Whitney Show CHAPTER 4 MARRIED HEIRESSES Happily Ever After Bringing Home the Bride A Room with a View American Wives & English Husbands Jennie Gets Pinned The Heir & the Spare o?I Baptize thee Albert Edwardor Chatelaine, or Where the Money Went Upstairs, Downstairs A Place for Everyone Costume Changes Survival of the Fastest In the Public Domain The Glitter & the Gold Portrait of a Lady: Sitting to Sargent At Long Last, Love A Wealth of Love CHAPTER 5 THE NEW HEIRESSES Vivant Rex Thoroughly Modern Jennie Earning a Title The Great Durbar Devonshire House Ball Entertaining Edward Taking the Measure The Crowning Touch Out of the Past o?I thought everyone must knowor The Last Marriages Court Curtsey o?Are there any more like you at home?or Till Death or the Judge Do Us Part: The American Heiress Divorce Epilogue o?A Hanging Offenseor AN AMERICAN HEIRESS DIRECTORY Register of American Heiresses Other Distinguished 19-Century Englishmen with American Wives Brothers Who Married Heiresses Cousins Who Married Heiresses Father-Son Duos Once Is Not Enough! The Bridesmaid Connection Walking Tour of the American Heiresseso_ London Bibliography/Selected Reading Index