List of American heiresses
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This is a list of some American socialites, from the Gilded Age to the end of the 20th century, who married into the European nobility, peerage and royalty :
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- Princess Friedrich Emil August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Princess von Noer on 3 November 1864, then Countess Alfred von Waldersee on 14 April 1874 (née Mary Esther Lee)
- Countess Carl Gustaf von Rosen (née Ella Carlton Moore) on 10 November 1864
Beginning of the Reconstruction Era and the Gilded Age (at the End of the American Civil War) on 9 May 1865
- Hon. Mrs Ralph Harbord (née Elizabeth Pole Schenley) on 5 September 1865
- Mathilde Lante Montefeltro della Rovere, Princess and Duchess Lante Montefeltro della Rovere (née Mathilde "Tilly" Davis) on 28 April 1866[1]
- Elisa de Saxe-Coburgo e Gotha, Countess de Edla (née Elise "Elisa" Friedericke Hensler, previously De Azevedo Gomes) on 10 June 1869
- Lady Randolph Spencer-Churchill (née Jeanette "Jennie" Jerome, aka the first known American Dollar Princess in Europe) on 15 April 1874
- Alice Chapelle de Jumilhac, Duchess de Richelieu on 27 February 1875, then Princess of Monaco on 30 October 1889 (née Alice Heine)
- Consuelo Montagu, Duchess of Manchester (née Consuelo Yznaga) on 22 May 1876
- Frances Roche, Baroness Fermoy (née Frances Ellen Work) on 22 September 1880
- Médora Manca-Amat de Vallombrosa, Marchioness de Morès et de Montemaggiore (née Medora Marie von Hoffmann) on 15 February 1882
- Tennessee Cook, Lady Cook and Viscountess de Monserrate (née Tennessee Celeste Claflin) on 15 October 1885
- Princess Louis de Scey-Montbéliard on 27 July 1887, then Princess Edmond de Polignac on 15 December 1893 (née Winnaretta Eugenie Singer)
- Lily Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough on 29 June 1888, then Lady William Leslie de la Poer Beresford on 30 April 1895 (née Jane Lilian "Lily" Warren Price, previously Hammersley)
- Clara de Riquet, Princess de Caraman-Chimay (née Clara Ward) on 19 May 1890
- Princess Friedrich Wilhelm von Ardeck, Princess von Ardeck (née Anne Hollingsworth Price) on 17 December 1890
- Adele Capell, Countess of Essex (née Adele Grant) on 14 December 1893
- Lady Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope (née Mary Augusta "May" Yohé, aka the first known American Stage Princess in Europe) on 27 November 1894
- Hon. Mrs Bertrand Arthur William Russell (née Alys Whitall Pearsall Smith) on 13 December 1894
- Countess Boni de Castellane on 4 March 1895, then Duchess de Sagan on 7 July 1908 (née Anna Gould)
- Maud Cunard, Lady Cunard (née Maud Alice Burke) on 18 April 1895
- Mary Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston, Vicereine of India (née Mary Victoria Leiter) on 22 April 1895
- Pauline Paget, Baroness Queenborough (née Pauline Payne Whitney) on 25 July 1895
- Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (née Consuelo Vanderbilt) on 6 November 1895
- Cara Broughton, Baroness Fairhaven (née Cara Leland Rogers, previously Duff) on 12 November 1895
- Princess Pierre Troubetzkoy (née Amélie Louise Rives, previously Chanler) on 18 February 1896
- Princess Mikhail Cantacuzène, Countess Speransky (née Julia Dent Grant) on 24 September 1899
- Countess Aldebert de Chambrun (née Clara Eleanor Longworth) on 19 February 1901
- Alice Seymour, Countess of Yarmouth (née Alice Cornelia Thaw) on 27 April 1903
- Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe (née Mary "May" Goelet) on 10 November 1903
- Countess Josef Gizycki (née Eleanor Josephine Medill "Cissy" Patterson) on 14 April 1904
- Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (née Nancy Witcher Langhorne, previously Shaw) on 3 May 1906
- Mary Elsie Torlonia, Princess di Civitella-Cesi (née Mary Elsie Moore) on 15 August 1907
- Countess László Széchenyi de Sárvár-Felsővidék (née Gladys Moore Vanderbilt) on 27 January 1908
- Hazel Lavery, Lady Lavery (née Hazel Martyn, previously Trudeau) in 1909
- Beatrice Forbes, Countess of Granard (née Beatrice Mills) on 14 January 1909
- Princess Miguel of Braganza (née Anita Rhinelander Stewart) on 15 September 1909
- Helen Beresford, Baroness Decies (née Helen Vivien Gould) on 7 February 1911
- Princess Victor von Thurn und Taxis (née Lida Eleanor Nicolls, previously Fitzgerald) on 1 November 1911
- Countess Gyula Apponyi de Nagy-Appony (née Gladys Virginia Steuart) on 29 July 1914
- Countess Roger de Périgny (née Frances Evelyn "Fannie" Bostwick, previously Francis) on 17 August 1915
- Grace Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (née Grace Elvina Hinds, previously Duggan) on 2 January 1917
- Princess Houreddin Vlora (née Helen Margaret Kelly, previously Thomas) on 20 June 1917
- Baroness Napoléon Gourgaud (née Eva Gebhard) on 25 September 1917
- Baroness Friedrich von und zu Weichs zur Wenne (née Vernal Edna Andrews, aka Fern Andra) on 28 September 1917
- Princess Afonso of Braganza (née Nevada Stoody Hayes, previously Van Valkenburgh) on 23 November 1917
- Princess Dmitri Golitsyn (née Frances Simpson Stevens) on 19 April 1919
- Ava Lister, Baroness Ribblesdale (née Ava Lowle Willing, previously Astor) on 5 June 1919
- Countess Eugeniusz Dąmbski on 5 November 1919, then Princess Serge Mdivani on 14 May 1927 (née Apolonia Chałupiec, aka Pola Negri)
- Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark (née Nonie "Nancy" May Stewart, previously Leeds) on 1 January 1920
- Countess Jean de Maupas de Juglart (née Laura Consuelo Morgan) on 8 July 1920
- Gladys Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (née Gladys Marie Deacon) on 25 June 1921
- Edith Paget, Baroness Queenborough (née Edith Starr Miller) on 19 July 1921
- Countess Frédéric de Janzé (née Alice Silverthorne) on 21 September 1921
- Countess Roger de Périgny (née Margaret Copley Thaw, previously Carnegie) on 12 November 1923
- Countess Ludwig von Salm-Hoogstraeten (née Mary Millicent Abigail Rogers) on 8 January 1924
- Iris Origo, Marchioness di Val d'Orcia (née Iris Margaret Cutting) on 4 March 1924
- Princess Viggo of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Countess af Rosenborg (née Eleanor Margaret Green) on 10 June 1924
- Princess Obolensky-Neledinsky-Meletzky on 24 July 1924, then Ava Hofmann, Edle von Hofmannsthal on 21 January 1933 (née Ava Alice Muriel Astor)
- Margaret Caracciolo, Princess di Castagneto and Duchess di Melito (née Margaret Clarke) on 8 January 1925
- Gloria Le Bailly de La Falaise, Marchioness de La Coudraye (née Gloria May Josephine Swanson, previously Somborn) on 28 January 1925
- Kay Bourbon del Monte, Princess di San Faustino (née Katherine "Kay" Linn Sage) on 30 March 1925
- Countess Roland de Graffenried de Villars (née Dorothy Gould) on 5 May 1925
- Princess Mstislav Galitzine, Countess Ostermann (née Amy "Aimée" Isabella Crocker, previously Miskinoff) on 22 September 1925
- Elsie Mendl, Lady Mendl (née Ella "Elsie" Anderson De Wolfe) on 10 March 1926
- Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness (née Thelma Morgan, previously Converse) on 27 June 1926
- Princess David Mdivani (née Marie Adrienne Koenig, aka Mae Murray) on 27 June 1926
- Princess Romanovskaya-Ilyinskaya on 21 November 1926, then Princess Dimitri Djordjadze on March 1937 (née Anna Audrey Emery)
- Countess André-Marie de Saint-Phalle (née Jeanne Jacqueline Harper) on 7 June 1927
- Margaret Cuevas, Marchioness de Piedrablanca de Guana, aka Marchioness de Cuevas (née Margaret Rockefeller Strong) on 3 August 1927
- Countess Folke Bernadotte, Countess af Wisborg (née Estelle Romaine Manville) on 1 December 1928
- Princess Serge Mdivani (née Mamie Harris, aka Mary McCormic, previously Rankin) on 27 April 1931
- Constance Le Bailly de La Falaise, Marchioness de La Coudraye (née Constance Campbell Bennett, previously Plant) on 22 November 1931
- Katherine Runciman, Viscountess Runciman of Doxford (née Katherine Schuyler Garrison) on 11 April 1932
- Lady Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish (née Adele Marie Austerlitz, aka Adele Astaire) on 9 May 1932
- Countess Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow on 14 May 1935, then Princess Igor Troubetzkoy on 1 April 1947, then Baroness Gottfried von Cramm on November 1955 (née Barbara Woolworth Hutton)
- Elizabeth Beresford, Baroness Decies (née Elizabeth Wharton Drexel) on 25 May 1936
- Geraldine Fitzgerald, Lady Lindsay-Hogg (née Geraldine Mary Fitzgerald) on 18 November 1936
- Wallis Windsor, Duchess of Windsor (née Bessie Wallis Warfield, previously Simpson) on 3 June 1937
- Virginia Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey (née Virginia Cherrill, previously Grant) on 30 July 1937
- Princess Artchil Gourielli-Tchkonia (née Chaya Rubinstein, aka Helena Rubinstein, previously Titus) in June 1938
- Lela de Talleyrand-Périgord, Duchess de Talleyrand and Duchess di Dino (née Lela Alexander Emery, previously Mackintosh) on 30 August 1938
- Hon. Mrs Cecil John Arthur Howard (née Frances Dean, aka Frances Drake) on 12 February 1939
- Countess Oleg Cassini Loiewski (née Gene Eliza Tierney) on 1 June 1941
- Princess Vladimir Eristavi-Tchitcherine (née Lucy Cotton, previously Magraw) on 15 June 1941
- Oona Chaplin, Lady Chaplin (née Oona O'Neill) on 16 June 1943
- Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (née Kathleen Agnes "Kick" Kennedy) on 6 May 1944
- Doña María Aline Griffith Dexter de Figueroa Perez de Guzmán, Countess de Quintanilla and Countess de Romanones (née Aline Griffith) in 1947
- Princess Alexander zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (née Patricia Anne "Honeychile" Wilder, previously Cernadas) on 21 May 1951
- Virginia Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie (née Virginia Fortune Ryan) on 23 October 1952
- Baroness Philippe de Rothschild (née Pauline Fairfax Potter, previously Leser) on 8 April 1954
- Countess Albrecht von Bismarck-Schönhausen (née Mona Travis Strader, previously Williams, aka Mona Bismarck) on 5 January 1955
- The Princess of Monaco (née Grace Patricia Kelly) on 19 April 1956
- Princess Alfred von Auersperg (née Martha Sharp Crawford, aka "Sunny" von Bülow) on 20 July 1957
- Nobile Catherine Cordero di Montezemolo (née Catherine Murray, aka Catherine di Montezemolo) in 1958
- Princess Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł (née Caroline Lee Bouvier, previously Canfield) on 19 March 1959
- Princess Andrew Romanov (née Kathleen Norris, previously Roberts) on 21 March 1961
End of the practice of granting hereditary peerages in the UK (with the Baron Margadale) on 1 January 1965
- Lady Charles George William Colin Spencer-Churchill (née Gillian Spreckels Fuller) on 23 July 1965
- Baroness Otto Kurt von Hoffmann (née Barbara Kingsbury, aka Barbara Carrera) in 1966
- Princess Joan of Luxembourg on 1 March 1967, then Duchess de Mouchy on 3 August 1978 (née Joan Douglas Dillon, previously Moseley)
- Linda McCartney, Lady McCartney (née Linda Louise Eastman, previously See) on 12 March 1969
- Baroness Donald von Wiedenmann (née Ellen Naomi Cohen, aka Cass Elliot, previously Hendricks) on 12 July 1971
- Victoria de Rothschild, Lady de Rothschild (née Victoria Lou Schott) on 1 July 1973
- Catherine de Castelbajac, Marchioness de Castelbajac (née Katherine "Catherine" "Kate" Lee Chambers) in 1979
- Baroness Arnaud de Rosnay (née Jenna Severson, aka Jenna de Rosnay) in 1981
- Frau Martin Rochus Sebastian von Haselberg (née Bette Midler) on 16 December 1984
- Jamie Haden-Guest, Baroness Haden-Guest (née Jamie Lee Curtis) on 18 December 1984
- Countess Carl-Eduard von Bismarck-Schönhausen (née Laura Elena Herring Martínez, aka Laura Harring) on 27 February 1987
- Kathleen Buxton, Baroness Buxton of Alsa (née Kathleen Peterson) on 16 July 1988
- Countess Alexandre de Lesseps (née LuAnn Nadeau, aka LuAnn de Lesseps) on 16 March 1993
- Countess Patrick Houitte de la Chesnais (née Stefanie Zofya Paul, aka Stefanie Powers, previously Lockwood) on 1 April 1993
- Princess Alexander-Georg von Auersperg (née Nancy Louise Weinberg) on 10 June 1995
- Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece (née Marie-Chantal Miller) on 1 July 1995
- Princess Alexander von Fürstenberg (née Alexandra Natasha Miller) on 28 October 1995
- Princess Paul-Philippe von Hohenzollern (née Lia Georgia Triff, previously Belli) on 15 September 1996
These are some other major American heiresses, living and past :
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- Barbara Daly Baekeland
- Aline Barnsdall
- Georgina Bloomberg
- Lisa Brennan-Jobs
- Susan Alice Buffett
- Whitney Kroenke Burditt
- Sarah Turner Butler
- Nancy Cunard
- Doris Duke
- Mary Billings French
- Florence Harding
- Amanda Hearst
- Anne Hearst
- Patty Hearst
- Lydia Hearst-Shaw
- Francesca Hilton
- Nicky Hilton
- Paris Hilton
- Brooke Hogan
- Casey Johnson
- Teresa Heinz Kerry
- Ann Walton Kroenke
- Kate Macy Ladd
- Nancy Walton Laurie
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Victoria B. Mars
- Cindy McCain
- Loraine McMurrey
- Marie-Christophe de Menil
- Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer
- Tinsley Mortimer
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- Edie Sedgwick
- Kyra Sedgwick
- Victoria Siegel[2]
- Lynsi Snyder
- Ivanka Trump
- Gloria Vanderbilt
- Grace Vanderbilt
- Flora Payne Whitney
- Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
- Olivia Wilde
Fictional American heiresses
- Alexis Colby, Fallon Carrington Colby, Amanda Carrington, Krystle Carrington and Dominique Deveraux on the TV series Dynasty
- Pam Ewing, April Stevens Ewing, Ann Ewing, Sue Ellen Ewing, Valene Ewing and Lucy Ewing on the TV series Dallas
- Constance Weldon Carlyle (portrayed by Morgan Fairchild) in the primetime television soap opera Flamingo Road
- Angela Channing (portrayed by Jane Wyman) in the primetime television soap opera Falcon Crest
- Sue Ellen Mischke (portrayed by Brenda Strong) in the sitcom Seinfeld
- Mary Beth, Andrew Van de Kamp's friend (portrayed by Ashley Austin Morris) on the television series Desperate Housewives
- Stephanie Forrester, Pamela Douglas, Felicia Forrester, Steffy Forrester, Phoebe Forrester, Brooke Logan, Taylor Forrester, Darla Forrester, Caroline Spencer and Caroline Spencer Forrester in the TV soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful
- Mackenzie Browning, Gloria Abbott Bardwell, Jill Foster Abbott, Victoria Newman, Cassie Newman, Abby Newman, Summer Newman, Colleen Carlton, Faith Newman, Ashley Abbott, Katie Newman and Katherine Chancellor in the TV soap opera The Young and the Restless
- Victoria Lord, Meredith Lord, Tina Lord, Megan Gordon, Jessica Buchanan, Natalie Buchanan, Sarah Roberts, Starr Manning, Dorian Lord, Blair Cramer, Kelly Cramer, Adriana Cramer, Cassie Callison, Langston Wilde in the TV soap opera One Life to Live
- Helen Thermopolis (portrayed by Caroline Goodall) in the novel and film The Princess Diaries
- Claire Meade (portrayed by Judith Light) and Alexis Meade (portrayed by Rebecca Romijn) in the American dramedy series Ugly Betty
- Cora Crawley (portrayed by Elizabeth McGovern) on the British period drama TV series Downton Abbey
- Sabine Delburg (portrayed by Manora Thew) in the silent drama film The Man and the Moment
- Rosalie Vanderpoel in the novel (by Frances Hodgson Burnett) The Shuttle
See also
- Born Rich, 2003 documentary created by Jamie Johnson
References
- ^ "The Heirs of Europe LANTE DELLA ROVERE". see line 32 & 33. Ronald Elward 2009-2014. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
- ^ "Victoria Siegel Bullied Online After Death". Radar Online. Jun 12, 2015. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
Sources
- Paul Theroff's Online Gotha.
- The Peerage
- California Digital Newspaper Collection
- D. C. O'Driscoll
- The Heirs of Europe
- Almanach de Gotha
- Burke's Peerage
- Cracroft's Peerage
- Society at Home and Abroad