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In the 40 years from 1874 to the outbreak of war in 1914, almost a hundred "Dollar Princesses" married into the frequently impecunious British aristocracy. Led by the redoubtable Jenny Jerome, whose marriage to Lord Randolph Churchill started a veritable invasion (and spawned a certain Prime Minister), these educated, wealthy and lightly flirtatious young ladies descended on their newly adopted, unsuspecting country with a vengeance, egged on by their socially determined mothers in New York.
This was, however, far more than merely cash for coronets: the results galvanised their prey. In this delightfully easy read, which belies both its depth of research and insight, the author of "Debs at War" and "The Viceroy's Daughters" has done it again.
A thoroughly enjoyable and perceptive
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In the 40 years from 1874 to the outbreak of war in 1914, almost a hundred "Dollar Princesses" married into the frequently impecunious British aristocracy. Led by the redoubtable Jenny Jerome, whose marriage to Lord Randolph Churchill started a veritable invasion (and spawned a certain Prime Minister), these educated, wealthy and lightly flirtatious young ladies descended on their newly adopted, unsuspecting country with a vengeance, egged on by their socially determined mothers in New York.
This was, however, far more than merely cash for coronets: the results galvanised their prey. In this delightfully easy read, which belies both its depth of research and insight, the author of "Debs at War" and "The Viceroy's Daughters" has done it again.
A thoroughly enjoyable and perceptive
thisoldHoarehouse.com
![The Twelve Days of Christmas [correspondence] by John Julius Norwich, illustrated by Quentin Blake](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_6zUu8b_-rc/mqdefault.jpg "The Twelve Days of Christmas [correspondence] by John Julius Norwich, illustrated by Quentin Blake
This delightful stocking-stuffer, of immense humour and charm, was originally published in 1998, and remains a Christmasy classic. Being thank you notes on the part of a well-bred lady to her invisible admirer, which increase in portent with each passing day (and delivery), these lead inevitably to a colourful showdown, involving an assortment of geese, maids-a-milking and questionable old men cavorting on the lawn.
Accompanied by Quentin Blakes peerless illustrations, a prime example of British humour at its seasonal best. Delectable!
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