A delicious group biography of the young American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century - the real women who inspired Downton Abbey.
Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself...
I bought the same book twice they had different covers and while same title one book said Social Climbing in London and New York while the other book said American Heiresses Who Married Into The British Aristocracy. Dont be fooled.
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