Consuelo Vanderbilt was the best known “dollar princess”—or, American heiresses that English aristocrats married for their ...

Eagle's Nest was built for William K. Vanderbilt II between 1910 and 1936, and is now home to a museum, planetarium, hiking ...

Dollar Princesses, also known as Buccaneers, American Duchesses, and Banknote Brides, were wealthy American heiresses from ...

Good catch! She did not take that standing down. Which brings us to our next big fact vs. fiction check on Season 3 of “The ...

The HBO series The Gilded Age, featuring the New York elites in the 1880s, is growing to be a widely appreciated show as it ...

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Eagle's Nest was built for William K. Vanderbilt II between 1910 and 1936, and is now home to a museum, planetarium, hiking trails, and more.

The rich, glamorous, American women who married into the English aristocracy faced prejudice on both sides of the Atlantic – ...

The IRL Consuelo, Duchess of Buckingham was a friend of the Vanderbilt family — she was Consuelo Vanderbilt’s godmother and namesake — so Alva Vanderbilt was very aware of the weakness ...

Alva Vanderbilt took the opportunity to have a Duchess in the family, and paid a dowry of $2.5 million to the Duke of Marlborough for him to wed her daughter, Consuelo.