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Million Dollar American Princesses

Million Dollar American Princesses

Million Dollar American Princesses

2015 2 Seasons 7 Episodes ⭐ 7.0 Documentary

Join Elizabeth McGovern as she takes an in-depth look at the young American heiresses whose real life stories inspired the acclaimed TV drama Downton Abbey. This series explores the time between the 1870s and the outbreak of World War One, when more than 200 daughters of America's new industrial millionaires marry into the money-strapped British aristocracy. They use their affluence, allure and ingenuity to their advantage, and they bring dramatic changes to the English ruling class and eventually the world.

Join Elizabeth McGovern as she takes an in-depth look at the young American heiresses whose real life stories inspired the acclaimed TV drama Downton Abbey. This series explores the time between the 1870s and the outbreak of World War One, when more than 200 daughters of America's new industrial millionaires marry into the money-strapped British aristocracy. They use their affluence, allure and ingenuity to their advantage, and they bring dramatic changes to the English ruling class and eventually the world.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Cash For Class

They're commonly called "the nouveau riche." Snubbed by New York's old-money families, these ambitious new millionaires,

EP 2

Wedding of the Century

Marriages between the daughters of new-money Americans and a cash-strapped British aristocracy hit its stride by 1895. B

EP 3

Movers & Shakers

By the 1930s, the legacy of America's millionaire princesses paves the way for a new generation of American women to ent

EP 1

Queens of the Screen

They were three American actresses about to take on the biggest roles of their careers, thousands of miles from Los Ange

EP 2

Queens of Culture

They had passions for paintings, music, entertaining, and obliterating the constraints of societal norms. Meet the "Quee

EP 3

Beautiful and Doomed

Host Elizabeth McGovern continues her exploration of the Million Dollar American Princesses who inspired the series "Dow

EP 4

Leading Ladies

They were three leading ladies, American heiresses who came to England and had a major impact on the fashion world, inte

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