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From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles--just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create after reading To Marry An English Lord. Filled with vivid personalities, gossipy anecdotes, grand houses, and a wealth of period details--plus photographs, illustrations, quotes, and the finer points of Victorian and Edwardian etiquette--To Marry An English Lord is social history at its liveliest and most accessible.;Cover; CONTENTS; 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.

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To Marry an English Lord

By Gail MacColl
and
Carol McD. Wallace

WORKMAN PUBLISHING, NEW YORK

Copyright 1989 2012 by Gail MacColl Carol McD Wallace All rights reserved - photo 1

Copyright 1989, 2012 by Gail MacColl & Carol McD. Wallace.

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproducedmechanically, electronically, or by any other means, including photocopyingwithout permission of the publisher. Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited.

eISBN 9780761171980

Cover design by Becky Terhune
Illustrations by David Cain

Photo credits: Front CoverDecorative frame: 100ker/Fotolella; Consuelo, The Duchess of Marlborough: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Workman books are available at special discounts when purchased in bulk for premiums and sales promotions as well as for fund-raising or educational use. Special editions or book excerpts can also be created to specification. For details, contact the Special Sales Director at the address below, or send an e-mail to specialmarkets@workman.com.

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For Peter Jarrett my very own English husband with love and thanks GLM - photo 2

For Peter Jarrett, my very own English husband, with love and thanks.
G.L.M.

With affectionate respect to the memories of Mrs. Wharton and Mr. James.
C.McD.W.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Our heartfelt thanks to:

Lynn Seligman, who always believed it was possible to place this book with a publisher who would understand it,

that publisher, Peter Workman,

and his amazing staff, including Sally Kovalchick, who made sense of it all; Charles Kreloff, who helped inspire us years ago; Kathy Herlihy-Paoli for the beautiful design; Rona Beame for the imaginative and thorough picture research; Lynn St. C. Strong who sorted out our transatlantic inconsistencies, and Bob Gilbert, who was unfailingly patient about logistics.

We also gratefully received editorial advice, research assistance, reminiscences and hospitality from the following in Britain and America: Barbara and David Clague; the Countess of Craven; Mrs. John R. Drexel; Christian Lady Hesketh; Lord Hesketh; Hilary Hinzmann; Libby and Jonathan Isham; Lord Leigh; Victor Montagu; the Hon. Mrs. Charles Pepys; Gemma Nesbit; the Duke of Roxburghe; Sir Michael Culme-Seymour; and Liz Thurber.

The staffs of the following institutions were remarkably helpful: the British Library; the Huntington Library, especially Mary Wright; the New York Public Library; the New York Society Library; the Newport Historical Society; the Newport Preservation Society; and the Redwood Library in Newport.

And finally we thank our husbands, Rick Hamlin and Peter Jarrett, who provided in-house editorial advice and years of moral support.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1
THE BUCCANEERS

Jennie Jerome Lady Randolph Churchill CHAPTER 2 THE FAIR INVADERS - photo 3

Jennie Jerome, Lady Randolph Churchill

CHAPTER 2
THE FAIR INVADERS

Consuelo Vanderbilt Duchess of Marlborough CHAPTER 3 AMERICAN HEIRESSES - photo 4

Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough

CHAPTER 3
AMERICAN HEIRESSES: WHAT WILL YOU BID?

Cornelia Martin Countess of Craven CHAPTER 4 MARRIED HEIRESSES CHAPTER 5 - photo 5

Cornelia Martin, Countess of Craven

CHAPTER 4
MARRIED HEIRESSES

CHAPTER 5
THE NEW HEIRESSES

Elizabeth French Lady Cheylesmore PROLOGUE On a bright fall day in 1860 - photo 6

Elizabeth French, Lady Cheylesmore

PROLOGUE

On a bright fall day in 1860, three hundred thousand people, nearly half the population of New York City, stood jostling each other and craning their necks on either side of Broadway. They were waiting to catch a glimpse of the latest distinguished visitor to their metropolis, a slender, fair-haired nineteen-year-old who had captured the imagination of the populace. He was Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and as his open barouche bowled down the street, the crowds cheered and waved their welcome.

That was his greeting from the democratic masses. The upper-class welcome was fancier, though no less hysterical. A banquet had been proposed, but this idea was dimly received by the Princes suite. His Royal Highness had just left Canada, where he had been to so many banquets. He was awfully fond of dancing. Could there not be a ball to welcome him to New York?


Yes, dance with him, Lady,
and bright as they are,
Believe us hes worthy

those sunshiny smiles,
Wave for him the flag
of the Stripe and the Star,

And gladden the heart
of the Queen of the Isles.

We thank you for all
that has welcomed himmost

For the sign of true love
that you bear the Old Land:
Proud Heiress of all

that his ancestor lost,
You restore it, in giving
that warm, loving hand.

Punch (1860)


The Prince of Wales is introduced to Cousin Columbia by Lord Punch in a cartoon - photo 7

The Prince of Wales is introduced to Cousin Columbia by Lord Punch in a cartoon published at the time of his American visit.


Before the century is out, these clever and pretty women from New York will pull the strings in half the chanceries in Europe.
LORD PALMERSTON, British prime minister


So a ball there was. The select planning committee faced the invidious task of deciding just who in New York society was worthy of meeting the Prince of Wales. Never had there been such groveling, such angling, such pleading for invitations. And when, on the night of October 12, the four thousand chosen people succeeded in fitting themselves into the Academy of Music, another thousand un-chosen succeeded in joining them. The floor promptly collapsed, just as His Royal Highness was about to make his entrance, so the guests had to spend two hours milling around, examining each others toilettes (the Rhinelander emeralds, Mrs. Gardiners silver-and-coral dress from Worth, the new Paris dressmaker) as a swarm of carpenters made an ungodly racket hammering beneath them. The floor was repaired, the ball began, and though his dancing partners had been carefully chosen in advance, the Prince was mobbed by womenprim, well-bred Victorian ladies who would not let him alone. (Not in strict accordance with good breeding, sniffed the Duke of Newcastle, H.R.H.s chaperon.) The Prince did not seem to mind.

The face that launched a thousand daydreams Every socialite in Manhattan - photo 8

The face that launched a thousand daydreams. Every socialite in Manhattan wanted to say shed danced with the Prince of Wales.

The Academy of Music transformed into a vast ballroom Right The Prince - photo 9

The Academy of Music transformed into a vast ballroom. Right: The Prince portrayed by famous Civil War photographer Mathew Brady; an extremely valuable piece of pasteboard.

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