I always thought of Winston Churchill as nothing but British, especially coming from the Spencer-Churchill family. But I was shocked to learn that his mother was American! Apparently he was also one of only 8 people who received honorary American citizenship.
Churchill made good political use of his mothers origin. When dealing with American diplomats and politicians he frequently reminded them that he was half American.
According to the Republicans of the 2016 presidential election, Ted Cruz was eligible to run for president, even though he'd been born in Canada, because his mother was American. I guess that means that Winston Churchill could've run for president!
It's so tragic how she was forced into a marriage. It was so sweet how she put her energy into the hospital and had the happy marriage she deserved later in life!
you are correct it was Cora's money that saved Downton. Elizabeth McGovern also narrates this subject on a three part series on the Smithsonian Channel about the heiresses of USA saving all these UK broke blokes mansions, etc.
@@cherylreitz4779 they are saying that the video states at the end that the Crowleys were based on these types of marriages. The OP likely posted their comment before they got to that part
Nancy Astor's banters with Winston Churchill were the best 😂 Churchill: *made some kind of comment along the lines of having a woman in Parliament is like having a woman intrude on him in the bathroom * Nancy: Sir, you are not nearly handsome enough to have such fears. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Shane3599 Churchill exchanged zingees like this with all sorts, including his good friend George Bernard Shaw. None of it malicious or mean-spirited and usually with those who could give as good as they got like Astor.
This probably helped in the long run when it came to the issue of inbreeding because practically every noble family was related through blood in one way or another, so marrying these "dollar princesses" allowed new blood to be introduced into a family line which might've saved a few lines from dying out.
There were (and still are) many hundreds of British families with noble titles. Throw in the untitled aristocracy they mixed with and you have many thousands of families. There was no chance of inbreeding, unlike small remote communities elsewhere in the English speaking world from the Western Isles of Scotland, to the Appalacian mountains, to the west coast of Tasmania.
Yeah, while especially in the 1600’s and thereabouts the royal families may have had issues with this, the aristocracy not so much. It’s a pretty large group.
Only the royals married other royals but they were all related over the generations. There are only so many true royals. Noble families married their daughters to other noble families to gain more wealth and form alliances. Noble families where only made noble because the king gave them property and titles for loyalty and service. The king also has the ability to remove titles and their lands. The titles and property were hereditary. Queen Elizabeth married Prince Phillip and his Great Great Grandmother was Queen Victoria. His mother and father were a Princesses and a Prince. Phillip was given the title of Duke but NOT king. Prince Harry is a royal Prince but Meghan is not royal and will not be given the title of Princess. Diana was her Royal Highness, Princess of Wall but that is a title granted to her by the Queen. Kate Middleton has a title of Duchess but has not been granted that title of Princess. Beatrice and Eugenie are royal princess because of royal blood. William, George, Caroline and Louis are also princess and out rank their mother. If Kate is not in the presents of William she would have to bow to Beatrice and Eugenie and Anne and all the rest that have royal blood.
@@ninreck5121 It was on youtube last time I checked. Not sure if all of it is still uploaded but it's niche enough for it to not be targeted for takedowns as much. -> buccaneers mini series 95
I think it’s important to note that Nancy Astor was the first woman to sit parliament not the first elected. The Irish Countess Markievicz was elected in 1918 to represent Dublin but like many Irish elected officials at the time refused to take her seat in protest of British occupation in Ireland and was part of the first Irish Dáil (Parliament). She was also the Irish Minister of Labor for a time! (Comparable in the US to the Secretary of Labor). She often gets erased when talking about women in British parliament in part because she was so influential in the Irish War for Independence and was decidedly opposed to British imperialism in Ireland. She also was dedicated to the poor by the time she died she’d given away so much of her wealth she died in poor ward. Nancy Astor was elected in 1919 and was the first woman to take her seat in Parliament but was definitely not the first woman elected. That said I absolutely love these videos and they’re great! Maybe someday you’ll consider doing a video on Countess Markievicz she’s absolutely fascinating!
@@countofdownablewell aware! I mention that multiple times above, that doesn’t alter the fact Countess Markievicz was the first woman to be elected to the British parliament.
This came right on time Lindsay!!! I am going through an intense fascination with The Gilded Age-and primarily with Consuelo, the Vanderbilt heiress. I just began reading her autobiography, and she is easily my favorite of the Dollar Princesses. You did a fantastic job covering her in this video! Thank you!!!
i totally recommend a well behaved woman. its a biography of her mother alva and its set like a novel, so its not boring in the slightest. alva was really remarkable and their relationship improved greatly as time went on. it sucks that alva is painted as a villain when its documented that she lied about forcing her daughter to marry so she would be divorced easier without using infidelity
@@louisaugustexvi4515 Alva was a villain of some kind that you must agree always ambitious, hot tempered and always contriving to be at the top of high society as the mother to the duchess of malborough and the rich grandmother to the future duke of malborough
Me too. I am obsessed with The Gilded Age! I went to my last Vanderbilt mansion still standing in February 2020. Biltmore in N.C.. Came all the way from Australia..worth it!! I did a walking tour years ago in NYC. The guy was amazing with the history on Vanderbilt row as well as the other robber barons and from that day I decided to visit every mansion still standing. I am also Kennedy obsessed and have visited every home they owned!! Palm Beach was my last on the list! Next was every presidential library...then Covid!!
A fall at 7 months pregnant huh? Reminds me of something my grandmother once said. "Cows and countesses both take 9 months, but it's amazing what an eager bride can do!" Well said Nana.
@@cloudytea. this is untrue, they’re were and are many ways of identity pregnancy without tests. Many women knew they were pregnant before they started to show, by the time one starts to show there are already serval symptoms and changes that would occur. Premature labor also has nothing to do with this. The timing is not the same as a baby being born premature. A miscalculation (which really we aren’t that common even though today ours are more accurate and down to the minute) is different from an actual premature birth. Of course they’re were women who may have discovered pregnancy much later perhaps bc they went without symptoms or other reasons and it still happens today.
Sorry, but another comment: William Astor (not his wife) battled with his sister-in-law Caroline over who should be "the" Mrs. Astor as he was the son of the older brother. He built the Waldorf Hotel right next door to Caroline's house to spite her (her son John Jacob IV built the Astoria hotel on the site of their old house to be taller than the Waldorf before agreeing that the smartest move was to join the two hotels rather than competing = Waldorf Astoria Hotel).
Yes! I think I had commented about this before. My theory is..these marriages are what really cemented the USA on the UK side in ww1.. there were so many of German descent Americans in the period... so their upper class USA/UK marriages really made a difference
Yay! I've been waiting for this one! Dollar Princesses have always been fascinating to me. 👸🏰 But I can't help but feel sorry for a lot of them, especially the dollar princess who was bullied by her gold-digging mother. I'm glad transactional marriages have fallen out of fashion in favor of marrying for love. ❤️
That’s so funny - I was looking at the pics of the beautiful Langhorne sisters at 20:55 and thought, “Wow! They look like they could have been Gibson Girls!” and then they were! 🤦🏻♀️
Just a very slight comment. Lady Astor was not the first female member of the British Parliament. The first woman elected to British Parliament (MP) was Countess Constance Markievitz. However, as she was an Irish Republican, she did not take her seat in Westminster. So Lady Astor was the first female member of British Parliament to take her seat in Westminster
Yay thank you Lindsay! I saw other people posting that they wanted this, so I'm so excited! I've always felt kind of sorry for these dollar princesses- no love, no happiness- just cold, bare, old mansions that their money was *supposed* to be used to refurbish...
It’s a scam. Basically it’s a person with the help of a bot commenting on videos like these giving you compliments to hopefully lead you to an online relationship to ask for money.
The Countess of Grantham in the television series Downton Abbey is a dollar princess, which is covered throughout the series including a visit by her parents. Her mother was played by Shirley McClain. Randolph Churchill's illness caused him to be expelled from the House Of Commons after he was involved in a violent incident.
When you began saying the name Nancy Langhorne, I was sure you were going to say "Nany Landgraab" 🤣 The subject of the video was very new to me and I really enjoyed it. Great job! ❤
Nancy Landgraab from the Sims. 😂 That'd be so funny and actually pretty cool if she was a dollar princess. Though you could argue that her husband Geoffrey is a dollar prince, assuming he didn't come from a wealthy family himself and since Nancy does have noble ancestors in her lineage. 😅
Fascinating and captivating pastiche of the trials and tribulations of the Dollar Princesses!! Thank You for putting this together!! Very Informative!! Makes one feel sorry for the Dollar Princesses and some of the difficulties they endured!! Many of them had such short lives and endured the loss of children!! It was good to hear that a few were able to salvage their fortunes and their independence eventually!!
I really love this topic so fascinating. Million dollar princesses on Smithsonian is a great documentary series about this topic. You are such a great modern historian. I really love the tone of your voice.
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That was the foundation story for Downton Abbey. A wealthy American woman marries a financially strapped noble and brings money to his family and the story then revolves around their family dynamics.
@@jules2291 why do you think an Heiress was able to afford to have had it made? That wasn't cheap, then or now. Also her fundraiser was for Charity, to build an Orphanage in Haiti, not for funding the making of the dress.
This is amazing! So informative and curious. You are undoubtedly one of my favourite youtubers and have invoked my interest in history more and more. Thank you for all your efforts
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I am particularly drawn to Jenny Jerome as her family started a mining town in Arizona bearing the family name. There are pictures of her prior to her voyage to England in the museum in Jerome, Arizona. From all accounts, she was a head strong determined young lady who did not suffer fools gladly. There are rumors of her making miners blush with the blue language she could let loose with. Arizona considers her the closest thing to royalty that the State of Arizona will ever have.
@@Middyrose I recommend you go to Jerome, if you can. Great little town and the Mining museum is worth the wait. My great grandfather was the Electric Engineer for the mine in Jerome so there are pictures of him in the museum. My grandfather grew up in Clarkdale until he moved to Yuma and married my grandmother. The rest, they say, is history from there.
Oh my gosh! I've been there!! A really interesting place, at the end of a crazy winding road, not too far from Prescott. I didn't realize the connection with Jennie Jerome. I watched a very old BBC drama about her life, back when I was a kid (1970s?) on PBS.
It's the Thames TV mini-series Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill (1974, 7 parts of 51 mins - 6 hours altogether). A fascinating and gripping portrait of a marriage, political ambition, and challenging social conventions. Lee Remick is wonderful as Jennie Jerome (Lady Randolph Churchill) - for which she got a BAFTA and a Golden Globe; and Ronald Pickup is a most convincing Lord Randolph Churchill. The series covers the years 1872-1921 (A Must See, on You Tube)
Your comment at the end reminded me of something. With our UK peers the spots on the robes are very meaningful. You might be interested in looking at that. Just love your videos!
There's a fantastic book called 'To marry an English Lord' that is all about the dollar princesses and the Gilded Age. Definitely a must buy if you're interested in this era
Such great research and information! It's interesting that many Americans helped keep Brittan society ALIVE...and contributed greatly to who they are today!
Well in fact Countess Constance Markievicz was the first woman to be elected to the British Parliament but she did not take her seat out of protest as she was a member of the Sinn Fein party. They were in favour of an Irish Republic and rejected the British sovereign
I feel bad for so many of these poor girls- they pretty much got sold to the british nobility. Probably some of them were happy but so many had to have been miserable
Winston Churchills brother was John "Jack" Spencer-Churchill and not John "Jack" Churchill as shown in the video. Jack Churchill was a British Army officer who fought in the Second World War with a longbow, bagpipes, and a Scottish broadsword.
The individual incorrectly shown as Winston Churchill's brother was also known as "Mad Jack." The Nazis made the assumption he was related to the Prime Minister and wanted to try to capture him as leverage.
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Fascinating video as per! Idk if anyone will see this but I think a video on defunct royal houses (Russia, Greece, Italy, Romania etc) and their current members, and if they have support in their home countries would be so interesting!
Im watching this while making brownies so I couldn’t really focus on the video and I’m not a history buff by any means but I kept getting shocked at who the dollar princesses were related to! This was definitely a very interesting and entertaining video 😁
My grandmother knew Lady Astor as a young woman in Virginia as Nancy Langhorne. The only comment was “Nancy always thought more of herself than she aught too.” I’ve often wondered why she said that.
Sorry but I've done extensive reading about Jenny Jerome and she did NOT have an affair with the Prince of Wales prior to her first marriage. First time I've ever heard this. They had an affair a few years later (after the births of her sons). The P of W did not bed the unwed, young aristocratic/upper class women were expected to remain virgins until marriage.
Yes, they were expected to… but they were still human and many carried out premarital and extramarital affairs. The Aristocracy may have seemed uptight and asexual from the surface but behind closed doors most of them were very dirty!
This video was lovely and made my day 100% better! I was wondering if u could also make a video about dollar princesses that married into other countries’ societies such as France, Portugal and others…
Liked and subscribed! You have done a super job on this video...I typically watch a lot of historical videos...and usually learn little new. I was very surprised at the amount of research you had done here. Wonderful work! I learned so much. I was very pleased to see you actually traced them to todays age, as to how ancestors had fared. That was awesome! Loved it.....Thank-you!
A couple of corrections: Mary Leiter's title was Baroness Curzon of Kedleston, not Baroness of Kedleston. Jennie Jerome's title was Lady Randolph Spencer-Churchill, not Lady Spencer-Churchill.
Mary Curzon’s peacock dress and it’s reconstruction has been a very controversial topic in the historical costuming community lately. It is after all, basically a statement by the colonizers that they own India, basically wearing India as a trophy. It is a shame, it’s such a beautiful gown, even a hundred years later when it’s old and tarnished. It must have been dazzling on the night. I also remember watching a documentary on Consuelo Vanderbilt, and her marriage had a great influence on one of her friends who decided she will never be forced into marriage like her unfortunate friend. Can’t recall her name, but she ended up happily marrying into Scottish gentry and spending time doing what she loved most: fishing.
Before these ladies, there was Elizabeth Patterson . The daughter of William Patterson, a wealthy Maryland merchant. In 1803, she married Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, the nephew of Napoleon. Their grandson became the Attorney General of the United States. The current Duke of Manchester was born in Australia and lives in the US. Like the Duke of Manchester, Consuelo's grandson the Duke of Marlborough, had criminal problems before he inherited the title. He seems to have cleaned himself up since inheriting the title, though. His son, the Marquess of Blandford, is a good looking polo player and model. He was one of the most eligible bachelors in the UK till he married in 2018. Mary Curzon wanted a monument like the Taj Mahal built for her when she died. She didn't quite get that, but she got her marble crypt anyway.
this stuff is so cool 😆 I don't know why I haven't heard of this yet- I love downtown abbey and I immediately recognized it as being inspired by these dollar princesses. I also recognized poor Consuelo as suffering a similar story to Blanche Monnier (it's a very sad and disturbing story, so be warned). It's heartbreaking that both an American heiress and a french socialite were forbade from eloping with their lovers and locked in their rooms by their mothers who had the AUDACITY to claim that they felt I'll because of their daughters 'disobedience' and 'wicked behavior' 🙄😒😤 bold claims for a woman who whipped and scolded her daughter like the evil stepmother in Drew Barrymore's 'Ever After'
Out of these five interesting women, Consuelo is probably my favorite. It was her story that first introduced me to the Dollar Princesses and the socially advantageous but loveless marriages that were common during the Gilded Age (I feel happy knowing that her second marriage (the "Gold" in her autobiography title) was a success compared to her first marriage (the "Glitter" in her autobiography title). Her mother Alva is also an interesting figure as well: part of her legacy is the Metropolitan Opera, which she and other "new-money" members of society established because they were excluded from the "old-money" Academy of Music. Seeing as how the Met is still around with great popularity today (my mom and maternal grandmother watched Norma and The Magic Flute there before the pandemic), I'd say that it's a key part of Alva's legacy. EDIT: I was initially shocked to hear that Levi Leiter was a co-founder of Marshall Field's, because before it was bought out in my childhood in the early 2000s, my mom was able to buy Christmas tree ornaments from their selection, some of which we still have today and therefore are almost 20 years old.
…Who apparently made comments racist enough to get sidelined from 1960’s British politics (which is a pretty high bar). I admit she seems very interesting, and the repartee with Churchill was humorous, but before you call her your ‘historical idol’ better go even just to Wikipedia and read some of her quotes concerning Jewish people and a fondness for Hitler. 😬 It’s not great.
@@--enyo-- I love her because (being British) she was the first woman to be allowed into Parliament and despite her being part of the aristocracy, she proved that she was worth more than just being pretty and being a decoration to her husband that could have babies. She was funny, had a killer wit, ambitious, intelligent and savage. But to be fair, unless you're looking at Saints for historical idols, you're going to come up pretty disappointed every time. I.E. : MLK Jr.: Was recorded in a sexual act, having an affair on his wife. Ghandi: Slept naked in bed with minor girls Lord Byron: Coerced his baby mama to send him their daughter for him to raise, only to abandon her to die alone and unwanted in a convent in France at 5 years old. The list goes on. Her blindness to Hitler and Antisemitism were just her faults. I'm not trying to make excuses for her but it just is what it is and no one throughout history is really innocent. It's human nature. Edit: Plus, even of I idolise her for one or a few reasons, it doesn't mean that I have to approve of everything she did or said, you know?
Every time the subject of dollar princesses come up, I feel like it's always the same 10 girls that are discussed. Is there any way to discuss some of the lesser known ones, or at least the top 20 ones?
such a good historical vid. thank you soo much. i had no idea that this sort of thing was so prevalent!! i am so glad that that harridan mother was finally put down and her daughter had a good life and accomplished building that hospital. seems women have had a much greater influence on history than they are ever given credit for. thank goodness at least Clara Barton, Florence Nightingale, Sojourner Truth, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman, and Marie Curie, among others, get some mention!!! 🌷🌱
Very good video. To date there has not been a King George VII: Alexandra was the wife of Edward VII. The Delhi Durbar was King George V and Queen Mary in 1911 (after their coronation). How about a video about the non-British marrying dollar princesses like Anna Gould, Winnaretta Singer and her sister Isabelle-Blanche Singer; er al.?
@@lauravalentine9488 I think there is some confusion in the video about the event: Curzon organized the 1903 durbar, not George and Mary. They actually went to India for their 1911 durbar after George's coronation (Lord Hardinge was Viceroy).
Didn't know that there was a Magazine....to....find a.....suitable....match from over the Ocean. I like that Churchills Parents married in the British Embassy in Paris. Been there once in Spring 2014, such a beautiful Palace. Sipped some whiskey in the garden....
My great great grandfather owned a store in England, he told his children to marry into the aristocracy. Two of his daughters did so, marrying a Bulgarian prince (worthless title by this point) and French Viscount (also a worthless title, but at least this one still had money.) When he lost his wealth, one of his 2 daughters was still rich enough to be the first (with her husband) couple to circumnavigate the globe via airplane (I assume as passengers.)
Amazing video as always!! Well done!! Can you please make a video about the Greek royal family? It is not a well known fact that Greece used to have monarchs . Most people do not even know that prince Philip of Edinburgh was born prince Philip of Greece and Denmark. They have a pretty interesting history.
I always thought of Winston Churchill as nothing but British, especially coming from the Spencer-Churchill family. But I was shocked to learn that his mother was American! Apparently he was also one of only 8 people who received honorary American citizenship.
Exactly what I felt! I was so shocked as well…
Churchill made good political use of his mothers origin. When dealing with American diplomats and politicians he frequently reminded them that he was half American.
According to the Republicans of the 2016 presidential election, Ted Cruz was eligible to run for president, even though he'd been born in Canada, because his mother was American. I guess that means that Winston Churchill could've run for president!
How little people know nowadays of History... I've known this since I studied World History in school.
@@susanfabian1521 No he couldn't have. Until 1934 citizenship status was only available through the father.
Their mothers were basically pimping their own daughters out. Consuelo's mother was downright cruel.
There are two, care to elaborate(/j)
It still happens today. Look at the Kardashians.
It's so tragic how she was forced into a marriage. It was so sweet how she put her energy into the hospital and had the happy marriage she deserved later in life!
Consuelo was the cruelest treated of all. Heartbreaking
I'm glad Consuelo Vanderbilt found love the second time around. She deserved it after everything her mother put her through.
Reminds me of Rose's mother in Titanic. I wonder if she was loosely based on Alma.
I agree. I can't help but feel sorry for her too. Her life was sad until she married her second husband. 😢
I was just thinking that.
@@emmacrooke807 I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.
I think the parents' relationship in Downton Abbey is based on this time period/concept of rich American women marrying British nobles
you are correct it was Cora's money that saved Downton. Elizabeth McGovern also narrates this subject on a three part series on the Smithsonian Channel about the heiresses of USA saving all these UK broke blokes mansions, etc.
Isn't that that the video stated?
@@patstokes7040 HUH??????
@@cherylreitz4779 they are saying that the video states at the end that the Crowleys were based on these types of marriages. The OP likely posted their comment before they got to that part
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Nancy Astor's banters with Winston Churchill were the best 😂
Churchill: *made some kind of comment along the lines of having a woman in Parliament is like having a woman intrude on him in the bathroom *
Nancy: Sir, you are not nearly handsome enough to have such fears.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Damn 🤣
Lmao what a savage!
Danggggg I love it lol
@@Shane3599 Churchill exchanged zingees like this with all sorts, including his good friend George Bernard Shaw. None of it malicious or mean-spirited and usually with those who could give as good as they got like Astor.
Right? Talk about sass and fun lol.
This probably helped in the long run when it came to the issue of inbreeding because practically every noble family was related through blood in one way or another, so marrying these "dollar princesses" allowed new blood to be introduced into a family line which might've saved a few lines from dying out.
There were (and still are) many hundreds of British families with noble titles. Throw in the untitled aristocracy they mixed with and you have many thousands of families. There was no chance of inbreeding, unlike small remote communities elsewhere in the English speaking world from the Western Isles of Scotland, to the Appalacian mountains, to the west coast of Tasmania.
Yeah, while especially in the 1600’s and thereabouts the royal families may have had issues with this, the aristocracy not so much. It’s a pretty large group.
Only the royals married other royals but they were all related over the generations. There are only so many true royals. Noble families married their daughters to other noble families to gain more wealth and form alliances. Noble families where only made noble because the king gave them property and titles for loyalty and service. The king also has the ability to remove titles and their lands. The titles and property were hereditary. Queen Elizabeth married Prince Phillip and his Great Great Grandmother was Queen Victoria. His mother and father were a Princesses and a Prince. Phillip was given the title of Duke but NOT king. Prince Harry is a royal Prince but Meghan is not royal and will not be given the title of Princess. Diana was her Royal Highness, Princess of Wall but that is a title granted to her by the Queen. Kate Middleton has a title of Duchess but has not been granted that title of Princess. Beatrice and Eugenie are royal princess because of royal blood. William, George, Caroline and Louis are also princess and out rank their mother. If Kate is not in the presents of William she would have to bow to Beatrice and Eugenie and Anne and all the rest that have royal blood.
@@patstokes7040Now she is princess of wales.
I’m not going to lie Lindsay, your videos are one of the things i look forward to most in life
For me too!
Heck yeah!
Indeed!
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There is a mini series on this called Buccaneers, about rich American heiresses marrying British aristocrats. I enjoyed watching it☺️
do you know where one can watch it?
Where can i find this show?
@@ninreck5121 It was on youtube last time I checked. Not sure if all of it is still uploaded but it's niche enough for it to not be targeted for takedowns as much. -> buccaneers mini series 95
It was a Masterpiece Theater series from probably 40 years ago.
I watched it in 1st run
@@ladyagnes7781 1995. Which is not 40 years ago, I was born in 84 and I'm 37 :D Stop giving me a midlife crisis!
I love how many of these dollar princesses have a connection to Winston Churchill in some way, whether it is his own mother, in-law, or acquaintances
I think it’s important to note that Nancy Astor was the first woman to sit parliament not the first elected. The Irish Countess Markievicz was elected in 1918 to represent Dublin but like many Irish elected officials at the time refused to take her seat in protest of British occupation in Ireland and was part of the first Irish Dáil (Parliament). She was also the Irish Minister of Labor for a time! (Comparable in the US to the Secretary of Labor). She often gets erased when talking about women in British parliament in part because she was so influential in the Irish War for Independence and was decidedly opposed to British imperialism in Ireland. She also was dedicated to the poor by the time she died she’d given away so much of her wealth she died in poor ward. Nancy Astor was elected in 1919 and was the first woman to take her seat in Parliament but was definitely not the first woman elected.
That said I absolutely love these videos and they’re great! Maybe someday you’ll consider doing a video on Countess Markievicz she’s absolutely fascinating!
You beat me to it.
Didn't take her seat.
@@countofdownablewell aware! I mention that multiple times above, that doesn’t alter the fact Countess Markievicz was the first woman to be elected to the British parliament.
Good point. Much appreciated.
Lady Diana Spencer, who became Diana, Princess of Wales after she married Prince Charles, was related to Winston Spencer Churchill.
This came right on time Lindsay!!! I am going through an intense fascination with The Gilded Age-and primarily with Consuelo, the Vanderbilt heiress. I just began reading her autobiography, and she is easily my favorite of the Dollar Princesses. You did a fantastic job covering her in this video! Thank you!!!
i totally recommend a well behaved woman. its a biography of her mother alva and its set like a novel, so its not boring in the slightest. alva was really remarkable and their relationship improved greatly as time went on. it sucks that alva is painted as a villain when its documented that she lied about forcing her daughter to marry so she would be divorced easier without using infidelity
@@louisaugustexvi4515 Alva was a villain of some kind that you must agree always ambitious, hot tempered and always contriving to be at the top of high society as the mother to the duchess of malborough and the rich grandmother to the future duke of malborough
Me too. I am obsessed with The Gilded Age! I went to my last Vanderbilt mansion still standing in February 2020. Biltmore in N.C.. Came all the way from Australia..worth it!! I did a walking tour years ago in NYC. The guy was amazing with the history on Vanderbilt row as well as the other robber barons and from that day I decided to visit every mansion still standing. I am also Kennedy obsessed and have visited every home they owned!! Palm Beach was my last on the list! Next was every presidential library...then Covid!!
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A fall at 7 months pregnant huh? Reminds me of something my grandmother once said. "Cows and countesses both take 9 months, but it's amazing what an eager bride can do!" Well said Nana.
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Well to be fair many women at that time did have premature labor
@Angel Well, to fair, the pregnancy tests weren't around until the 1920s, so the wonky way of knowing was when there was the bump
@@cloudytea. this is untrue, they’re were and are many ways of identity pregnancy without tests. Many women knew they were pregnant before they started to show, by the time one starts to show there are already serval symptoms and changes that would occur. Premature labor also has nothing to do with this. The timing is not the same as a baby being born premature. A miscalculation (which really we aren’t that common even though today ours are more accurate and down to the minute) is different from an actual premature birth. Of course they’re were women who may have discovered pregnancy much later perhaps bc they went without symptoms or other reasons and it still happens today.
In my family such births were euphemistically called ‘honeymoon’ babies! 😂
Sorry, but another comment: William Astor (not his wife) battled with his sister-in-law Caroline over who should be "the" Mrs. Astor as he was the son of the older brother. He built the Waldorf Hotel right next door to Caroline's house to spite her (her son John Jacob IV built the Astoria hotel on the site of their old house to be taller than the Waldorf before agreeing that the smartest move was to join the two hotels rather than competing = Waldorf Astoria Hotel).
Yes! I think I had commented about this before.
My theory is..these marriages are what really cemented the USA on the UK side in ww1.. there were so many of German descent Americans in the period... so their upper class USA/UK marriages really made a difference
Wait till you hear where the UK royal family comes from
@@dylankennedy4539 I know they had German roots. But the citizens didn't have any preference. And the king didn't declare war. Parliament did
Yay! I've been waiting for this one! Dollar Princesses have always been fascinating to me. 👸🏰 But I can't help but feel sorry for a lot of them, especially the dollar princess who was bullied by her gold-digging mother. I'm glad transactional marriages have fallen out of fashion in favor of marrying for love. ❤️
That one sounds like Angel from Fazbear Frights Gumdrop Angel you know since both of them had gold digging mothers
Qhat does dollar princesses mean? Broke unimportant princess's? Lol
@@Jason.cbr1000rr Have you even watched 30s of the video?
@@Jason.cbr1000rr it means they made 1 dollar in their entire lifetime and wiped their butts with it
@@staceytetzlaff2822 Wow! I had no idea! Interesting Connection!
The Dollar Princesses have always been so fascinating to me - thank you for this video!
That’s so funny - I was looking at the pics of the beautiful Langhorne sisters at 20:55 and thought, “Wow! They look like they could have been Gibson Girls!” and then they were! 🤦🏻♀️
Just a very slight comment. Lady Astor was not the first female member of the British Parliament. The first woman elected to British Parliament (MP) was Countess Constance Markievitz. However, as she was an Irish Republican, she did not take her seat in Westminster. So Lady Astor was the first female member of British Parliament to take her seat in Westminster
Yay thank you Lindsay! I saw other people posting that they wanted this, so I'm so excited! I've always felt kind of sorry for these dollar princesses- no love, no happiness- just cold, bare, old mansions that their money was *supposed* to be used to refurbish...
Titles were bought for them, not love
I feel bad for Consuelo.
Poor girl, I just wanna give her a big hug
(Vanderbilt)
It sounds like her former lover left her with a goodbye present though 🤣.
@@Leelz247 eh?
@@Raymondgogolf Hello, Raymond, wdym beautiful heart?
@@Raymondgogolf very confused
It’s a scam. Basically it’s a person with the help of a bot commenting on videos like these giving you compliments to hopefully lead you to an online relationship to ask for money.
Nancy’s sassiness to Winston Churchill is so funny. I had to replay it a couple times 😅
I’d love to see this become a series, or at least a part II please!
The Countess of Grantham in the television series Downton Abbey is a dollar princess, which is covered throughout the series including a visit by her parents. Her mother was played by Shirley McClain.
Randolph Churchill's illness caused him to be expelled from the House Of Commons after he was involved in a violent incident.
Correct, the series was called, “ Million Dollar Princesses”. I recorded them all. I think there was 3 total videos in that series.
She and her daughters are slightly based on Lady Curzon and her 3 daughters
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This was in the video
When you began saying the name Nancy Langhorne, I was sure you were going to say "Nany Landgraab" 🤣
The subject of the video was very new to me and I really enjoyed it. Great job! ❤
Nancy Landgrab lol 😆 if you know...you know!
Nancy Landgraab from the Sims. 😂 That'd be so funny and actually pretty cool if she was a dollar princess. Though you could argue that her husband Geoffrey is a dollar prince, assuming he didn't come from a wealthy family himself and since Nancy does have noble ancestors in her lineage. 😅
Honestly they seem pretty alike
😂😂😂😂😂
Fascinating and captivating pastiche of the trials and tribulations of the Dollar Princesses!! Thank You for putting this together!! Very Informative!! Makes one feel sorry for the Dollar Princesses and some of the difficulties they endured!! Many of them had such short lives and endured the loss of children!! It was good to hear that a few were able to salvage their fortunes and their independence eventually!!
I really love this topic so fascinating. Million dollar princesses on Smithsonian is a great documentary series about this topic. You are such a great modern historian. I really love the tone of your voice.
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Her voice reminds me of Karina Longworth from, "You Must Remember This" podcast.
That was the foundation story for Downton Abbey. A wealthy American woman marries a financially strapped noble and brings money to his family and the story then revolves around their family dynamics.
That sounds very interesting. I'll have to watch Downton Abbey now. 😊
A good way to remember this history. Thank you.
The peacock dress is following me. I recently discovered Cathy Hay and her project to remake it. And now I hear about it again here.
@@jules2291 why do you think an Heiress was able to afford to have had it made?
That wasn't cheap, then or now.
Also her fundraiser was for Charity, to build an Orphanage in Haiti, not for funding the making of the dress.
Me, too. Last week it turned up on a FB group about textiles that I belong to.
"if only she were willing to put in the practice"
Relatable, sis. Relatable.
This is amazing! So informative and curious. You are undoubtedly one of my favourite youtubers and have invoked my interest in history more and more. Thank you for all your efforts
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This is the perfect primer for someone who is into Downton Abbey.... great work as always!
I am particularly drawn to Jenny Jerome as her family started a mining town in Arizona bearing the family name. There are pictures of her prior to her voyage to England in the museum in Jerome, Arizona. From all accounts, she was a head strong determined young lady who did not suffer fools gladly. There are rumors of her making miners blush with the blue language she could let loose with. Arizona considers her the closest thing to royalty that the State of Arizona will ever have.
Ohh!! Im arizonan and had no idea thats very neat info :)!
@@Middyrose I recommend you go to Jerome, if you can. Great little town and the Mining museum is worth the wait. My great grandfather was the Electric Engineer for the mine in Jerome so there are pictures of him in the museum. My grandfather grew up in Clarkdale until he moved to Yuma and married my grandmother. The rest, they say, is history from there.
Oh my gosh! I've been there!! A really interesting place, at the end of a crazy winding road, not too far from Prescott. I didn't realize the connection with Jennie Jerome. I watched a very old BBC drama about her life, back when I was a kid (1970s?) on PBS.
It's the Thames TV mini-series Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill (1974, 7 parts of 51 mins - 6 hours altogether). A fascinating and gripping portrait of a marriage, political ambition, and challenging social conventions. Lee Remick is wonderful as Jennie Jerome (Lady Randolph Churchill) - for which she got a BAFTA and a Golden Globe; and Ronald Pickup is a most convincing Lord Randolph Churchill. The series covers the years 1872-1921 (A Must See, on You Tube)
Your comment at the end reminded me of something. With our UK peers the spots on the robes are very meaningful. You might be interested in looking at that.
Just love your videos!
There's a fantastic book called 'To marry an English Lord' that is all about the dollar princesses and the Gilded Age. Definitely a must buy if you're interested in this era
Such great research and information! It's interesting that many Americans helped keep Brittan society ALIVE...and contributed greatly to who they are today!
I am really glad that you made a video about it . Thank you so much.
These ladies were the golden era's Young and Restless... how exciting.
Good stuff here
Downton abby is based on this for all of you that didn't know
We knew.
I didnt know, thank u
I knew
Now I know! Thanks!
Well in fact Countess Constance Markievicz was the first woman to be elected to the British Parliament but she did not take her seat out of protest as she was a member of the Sinn Fein party. They were in favour of an Irish Republic and rejected the British sovereign
I feel bad for so many of these poor girls- they pretty much got sold to the british nobility. Probably some of them were happy but so many had to have been miserable
This has become one of my fav videos of yours! Love the stories of the million dollar princesses 👰
Winston Churchills brother was John "Jack" Spencer-Churchill and not John "Jack" Churchill as shown in the video. Jack Churchill was a British Army officer who fought in the Second World War with a longbow, bagpipes, and a Scottish broadsword.
The individual incorrectly shown as Winston Churchill's brother was also known as "Mad Jack." The Nazis made the assumption he was related to the Prime Minister and wanted to try to capture him as leverage.
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I'm always happy when a notification pops up for your videos ! 📹 I enjoy them so much! Thanks again Lindsey!😊
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I can't tell you how long I've wanted this video from you! As always; it's amazing!!!
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Fascinating video as per! Idk if anyone will see this but I think a video on defunct royal houses (Russia, Greece, Italy, Romania etc) and their current members, and if they have support in their home countries would be so interesting!
Hi Lindsay! I recently learned about the Mitford sisters and think their story would be an excellent one for you to cover!
Good idea!
Couldn’t wait to see this after seeing the video about the titles. Thank you !!
Im watching this while making brownies so I couldn’t really focus on the video and I’m not a history buff by any means but I kept getting shocked at who the dollar princesses were related to! This was definitely a very interesting and entertaining video 😁
Agreed ... very interesting presentation.
Great...now I want brownies...
I'm glad Conseulo got her happy ending. Her mother sounded like a piece of work.
Finally there's is second video in 2022, I've been waiting this since your first upload last week 😍❤️
Yesss ! Finally !!! I had issues finding this content on you tube million dollar princesses. Thank you so much Lindsay ! You are awesome 🤩
My grandmother knew Lady Astor as a young woman in Virginia as Nancy Langhorne. The only comment was “Nancy always thought more of herself than she aught too.” I’ve often wondered why she said that.
Sorry but I've done extensive reading about Jenny Jerome and she did NOT have an affair with the Prince of Wales prior to her first marriage. First time I've ever heard this. They had an affair a few years later (after the births of her sons). The P of W did not bed the unwed, young aristocratic/upper class women were expected to remain virgins until marriage.
Yes, they were expected to… but they were still human and many carried out premarital and extramarital affairs. The Aristocracy may have seemed uptight and asexual from the surface but behind closed doors most of them were very dirty!
@@guinevere788 The women did not generally engage in affairs before they were married and had produced sons
@@glen7318 I feel like some still did. Lmao
This video was lovely and made my day 100% better! I was wondering if u could also make a video about dollar princesses that married into other countries’ societies such as France, Portugal and others…
Cora from downtown abbey is a successful example of a dollar princesse, the downtown estate was saved due to her dowry.
I currently work in the hospital lady Curzon built. 👍 This was a wonderful video
Liked and subscribed! You have done a super job on this video...I typically watch a lot of historical videos...and usually learn little new. I was very surprised at the amount of research you had done here. Wonderful work! I learned so much. I was very pleased to see you actually traced them to todays age, as to how ancestors had fared. That was awesome! Loved it.....Thank-you!
building a hospital as a "pet project"...now that's a good flex..
I love all about the dollar brides! Make more videos of maybe each one's lives. They all lived very interesting lives. Thanks!
A couple of corrections:
Mary Leiter's title was Baroness Curzon of Kedleston, not Baroness of Kedleston.
Jennie Jerome's title was Lady Randolph Spencer-Churchill, not Lady Spencer-Churchill.
Also Winston Churchill’s birthdate is November 30, 1874 (not October).
I love how you approach topics.
I just love how Winston Churchill answered people’s question about his birth and conception lmao.
Honestly waiting one week for a new video of yours to come out is worth the wait.
I clicked on this when it said "6 minutes ago" and I got so excited!!! I was looking for one of your videos to watch when this was uploaded
So many connections and modern similarities! Fascinating, well done
Mary Curzon’s peacock dress and it’s reconstruction has been a very controversial topic in the historical costuming community lately. It is after all, basically a statement by the colonizers that they own India, basically wearing India as a trophy. It is a shame, it’s such a beautiful gown, even a hundred years later when it’s old and tarnished. It must have been dazzling on the night.
I also remember watching a documentary on Consuelo Vanderbilt, and her marriage had a great influence on one of her friends who decided she will never be forced into marriage like her unfortunate friend. Can’t recall her name, but she ended up happily marrying into Scottish gentry and spending time doing what she loved most: fishing.
"however, she refused to sleep with either of them, because she was a lesbian." ABSOLUTE GOLD
YES
Before these ladies, there was Elizabeth Patterson . The daughter of William Patterson, a wealthy Maryland merchant. In 1803, she married Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, the nephew of Napoleon. Their grandson became the Attorney General of the United States.
The current Duke of Manchester was born in Australia and lives in the US.
Like the Duke of Manchester, Consuelo's grandson the Duke of Marlborough, had criminal problems before he inherited the title. He seems to have cleaned himself up since inheriting the title, though. His son, the Marquess of Blandford, is a good looking polo player and model. He was one of the most eligible bachelors in the UK till he married in 2018.
Mary Curzon wanted a monument like the Taj Mahal built for her when she died. She didn't quite get that, but she got her marble crypt anyway.
Another simply amazing video!
this stuff is so cool 😆 I don't know why I haven't heard of this yet- I love downtown abbey and I immediately recognized it as being inspired by these dollar princesses. I also recognized poor Consuelo as suffering a similar story to Blanche Monnier (it's a very sad and disturbing story, so be warned). It's heartbreaking that both an American heiress and a french socialite were forbade from eloping with their lovers and locked in their rooms by their mothers who had the AUDACITY to claim that they felt I'll because of their daughters 'disobedience' and 'wicked behavior' 🙄😒😤
bold claims for a woman who whipped and scolded her daughter like the evil stepmother in Drew Barrymore's 'Ever After'
I'm glad Consuelo found happiness in her second marriage. Nancy Aster and Winston Churchill sounds like they were hilarious together.
Out of these five interesting women, Consuelo is probably my favorite. It was her story that first introduced me to the Dollar Princesses and the socially advantageous but loveless marriages that were common during the Gilded Age (I feel happy knowing that her second marriage (the "Gold" in her autobiography title) was a success compared to her first marriage (the "Glitter" in her autobiography title). Her mother Alva is also an interesting figure as well: part of her legacy is the Metropolitan Opera, which she and other "new-money" members of society established because they were excluded from the "old-money" Academy of Music. Seeing as how the Met is still around with great popularity today (my mom and maternal grandmother watched Norma and The Magic Flute there before the pandemic), I'd say that it's a key part of Alva's legacy.
EDIT: I was initially shocked to hear that Levi Leiter was a co-founder of Marshall Field's, because before it was bought out in my childhood in the early 2000s, my mom was able to buy Christmas tree ornaments from their selection, some of which we still have today and therefore are almost 20 years old.
Ooooh!!! A video that includes Nancy Aster, The Viscountess Aster; one of my historical idols! Thanks Lindsay!! ❤❤
Astor
…Who apparently made comments racist enough to get sidelined from 1960’s British politics (which is a pretty high bar). I admit she seems very interesting, and the repartee with Churchill was humorous, but before you call her your ‘historical idol’ better go even just to Wikipedia and read some of her quotes concerning Jewish people and a fondness for Hitler. 😬 It’s not great.
@@--enyo-- I love her because (being British) she was the first woman to be allowed into Parliament and despite her being part of the aristocracy, she proved that she was worth more than just being pretty and being a decoration to her husband that could have babies. She was funny, had a killer wit, ambitious, intelligent and savage.
But to be fair, unless you're looking at Saints for historical idols, you're going to come up pretty disappointed every time.
I.E. :
MLK Jr.: Was recorded in a sexual act, having an affair on his wife.
Ghandi: Slept naked in bed with minor girls
Lord Byron: Coerced his baby mama to send him their daughter for him to raise, only to abandon her to die alone and unwanted in a convent in France at 5 years old.
The list goes on. Her blindness to Hitler and Antisemitism were just her faults.
I'm not trying to make excuses for her but it just is what it is and no one throughout history is really innocent. It's human nature.
Edit: Plus, even of I idolise her for one or a few reasons, it doesn't mean that I have to approve of everything she did or said, you know?
Good Lord....the dukes of Machester have taken quite a hard fall lmfao
Absolutely love this topic fell in love with it a couple years back when I found the dollar princess video But yours is way better
Britain and America have been like this 🤞 since we worked out our problems.
Great video, well told and easy to understand and engaging.
Very interesting! I was at Marshall Fields department store in Chicago the day Macy's took it over.
Yay!!! I love the topic of dollar princesses! Consuelo Vanderbilt is my favorite .
Every time the subject of dollar princesses come up, I feel like it's always the same 10 girls that are discussed. Is there any way to discuss some of the lesser known ones, or at least the top 20 ones?
I like Emerald Cunard but I've never found a proper video on her. Maybe because there's not much known about her early life.
oh my gosh i’m so excited for this!!!
such a good historical vid. thank you soo much. i had no idea that this sort of thing was so prevalent!! i am so glad that that harridan mother was finally put down and her daughter had a good life and accomplished building that hospital. seems women have had a much greater influence on history than they are ever given credit for. thank goodness at least Clara Barton, Florence Nightingale, Sojourner Truth, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman, and Marie Curie, among others, get some mention!!! 🌷🌱
So glad I found your channel 🎉
Very good video. To date there has not been a King George VII: Alexandra was the wife of Edward VII. The Delhi Durbar was King George V and Queen Mary in 1911 (after their coronation). How about a video about the non-British marrying dollar princesses like Anna Gould, Winnaretta Singer and her sister Isabelle-Blanche Singer; er al.?
Actually the Delhi Durbar was held 3 times; 1877, 1903, & 1911
@@lauravalentine9488 The king and queen only went in 1911.
@@lauravalentine9488 I think there is some confusion in the video about the event: Curzon organized the 1903 durbar, not George and Mary. They actually went to India for their 1911 durbar after George's coronation (Lord Hardinge was Viceroy).
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I think the issue is that she made a mistake calling King Edward VII, King George VII. Everyone makes mistakes.
Beautiful. Enjoyed it so much. Thank you!
This was wonderful!!
Have you done any research on Empress Michiko? Her story is heartbreaking at times.
Wasn’t she a commoner as well?
I just love your videos. Thank you so much.
Are we getting a return of Queens of the World? I’v missed those!
Didn't know that there was a Magazine....to....find a.....suitable....match from over the Ocean. I like that Churchills Parents married in the British Embassy in Paris. Been there once in Spring 2014, such a beautiful Palace. Sipped some whiskey in the garden....
My great great grandfather owned a store in England, he told his children to marry into the aristocracy. Two of his daughters did so, marrying a Bulgarian prince (worthless title by this point) and French Viscount (also a worthless title, but at least this one still had money.) When he lost his wealth, one of his 2 daughters was still rich enough to be the first (with her husband) couple to circumnavigate the globe via airplane (I assume as passengers.)
Ooh, I’d been looking forward to this one!
Amazing video as always!! Well done!! Can you please make a video about the Greek royal family? It is not a well known fact that Greece used to have monarchs . Most people do not even know that prince Philip of Edinburgh was born prince Philip of Greece and Denmark. They have a pretty interesting history.
This video is very interesting, and also very entertaining. You never miss Lindsay!!!
Thank you Lindsay!❤️ Elizabeth Bathory please!❤️❤️
Yes! The Blood Countess!
Thank you Lindsy ❤
I’m early!! I actually love how much broad history you cover. I’m sure I’ve seen almost every single video you’ve posted. Anyway love from England🖤
What a great video. Thank you very much indeed and best greetings from Austria.
This reminds me of Downton Abbey and how I thought it was unusual that Cora was American but now it makes sense