Dollar Princesses

History Tea Time

Lindsay Holiday

History

4.5 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In the late 1800s, American industrialists were raking in cash and living like princes, but they had no way, other than their mansions, servants and yachts, of making it clear that they were better than everyone else. Meanwhile, across the pond, the British aristocracy had come on hard times. They still had their titles, historic estates and aire of superiority, but they were running low on funds. This became a match made somewhere south of heaven when hundreds of American heiresses married cash-strapped British noblemen. Millions of dowry dollars crossed the pond to renovate ancient English mansions and bolster the ailing peerage, while American fathers got to brag that they had a baroness or a duchess in the family. There was even a magazine, “The Titled American” in which British nobles with a title to sell could advertise their eligibility to rich American ladies. But marriages based on exchanging cash for coronets weren’t always destined to be happy. Let’s get to know five of the American women who became Dollar Princesses... Jennie Jerome Consuelo Yznaga Consuelo Vanderbilt Mary Leiter Nancy Langhorne Shaw Join me every Tuesday when I'm Spilling the Tea on History! Check out my Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/lindsayholiday Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091781568503 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/historyteatimelindsayholiday/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@historyteatime Please consider supporting me at https://www.patreon.com/LindsayHoliday and help me make more fascinating episodes! Intro Music: Baroque Coffee House by Doug Maxwell Music: Butterflies In Love by Sir Cubworth Angevin - Thatched Villagers by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) #HistoryTeaTime #LindsayHoliday Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com if you would like to advertise on this podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.3	Within three short centuries, these islands would become the center of an empire which ruled a quarter of the globe and on which the sun never set. I'm Dr Samuel Hume, a historian of the British Empire, and my podcast, Pax Britannica, follows the people and events that built those islands into a global superpower.
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1:09.9	Hello and welcome to History Tea Time. I'm Lindsay Holiday and I'm spilling the tea on history.
1:22.5	Dollar Princesses
1:25.3	In the late 1800s, American industrialists were raking in cash and living like princes.
1:36.3	But as the U.S. Constitution forbade royal and noble titles, these new Vaurich robber barons had no way, other than their mansion
1:46.3	servants and yachts, of making it clear that they were better than everyone else. Meanwhile,
1:52.5	across the pond, the British aristocracy had fallen on hard times. They still had their
1:59.8	titles, historic estates, and Arab superiority. But as the
2:04.8	right to tax the peasants had been taken away in 1660 following the English Civil War,
2:10.9	they were running low on funds. This became a match made somewhere south of heaven, when hundreds of American heiresses in search of titles married cash-strapped British nobleman.
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