The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau

A study of the history, objectives, and motivations of American heiresses and their families in crossing the Atlantic to find husbands in 1895. On 6 November 1895 Consuelo Vanderbilt married Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough. Though the preceding months had included spurned loves, unexpected deaths, scandal and illicit affairs, the wedding was the crowning moment for the unofficial marriage brokers, Lady Minnie Paget and Consuelo Yzanga, Dowager Duchess of Manchester, the origin