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.
The incomers were.
The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached.
Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain.
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