Welcome to Dun & Dun. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn,

where nothing is linear and everything is connected. Thank you for joining me today as we investigate

the life and legacy of another American girl who made a huge impact across the pond.

Her name is Francis Work, known as Fanny,

and you might not be familiar with her story, but I can pretty much guarantee you are very familiar with one of her great-grandchildren, Diana Princess of Wales. You perhaps are familiar with another one of her famous great-grandchildren, Oliver Platt.

Lots of threads in this one today, friends.

But before we begin, I do want to take a moment to pull out my spyglass and give some

enormous thanks to Kelly.

Haza!

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are not done yet specials.

So many good things happening over there.

So grateful to you, Kelly,

and all of our Patreon supporters for your support. So grateful to

you for coming back to listen to today's generational tale. Francis Ellen worked quite different than

our last batch of American girls. Let's investigate.

The story of how Francis Ellen work married into the English aristocracy is drastically different from that of the other American girls, the American heiresses, dollar princesses

that we've talked about. While our first batch of American girls were strongly encouraged or

even forced into their marriages to European nobility, Francis Work, Fannie,

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