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Between 1870 and 1914, 102 American women – 50 of them from New York – married British peers or the younger sons of peers, and many more married into the upper classes. They were dubbed "dollar princesses" and the popular view was that these were purely transactional marriages – cash for class.
'There was a real gutsiness about them': How the heiresses dubbed the 'dollar princesses' brought US flair to the UK Neil Armstrong 2025
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