The Husband Hunters

The Glittering Lives of the Dollar Princesses Who Infiltrated British High Society Towards the end of the nineteenth century, 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 was breached by a group of young women from the New World. From 1874, when Jennie Jerome, the first known 'Dollar Princess', married Randolph Churchill, to 1905, dozens of wealthy American heiresses married into the