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Overview
During the 1910s, many fabulously wealthy American heiresses and parvenus were introduced to the now poor-high society of English gentlefolk as debutantes. These women had little to no family heritage, but their bank accounts lured in the vieil argent of British aristocracy. These women belonged to the wealthiest families in the world. Their parents used these well-polished ladies to grow their prestige back in the New World.

These families belong to the Gilded Age, this was when American income brackets grew larger than those of their European counterparts, which saw a massive uprise in the concentration of the so-called American Royalty. This was due to the increase in American industries churning out better, more and cheaper goods. This was also an era that was overseen by a peak in industries such as railway, textile and natural resources.

With bulging pockets, they travelled to Europe which was looked upon by Americans as an upper-class Eden. But on their arrival, they saw symbolic business opportunities to be part of the old money of nobility. But this symbol was just what it sounded like symbolism. These dukes and nobles lived in a small frame of their baroque past, with creaking palaces and water-clogged castles and mounting debts.

The business-sharp mothers of these young beautiful women launched them as debutantes into sequestered European-élites. The families of these women presented them as an offer to these land-rich but cash-poor patriciate houses. To their desperate avail, these men and their families had no chance but to do as they were told. These women lived in an era when men were viewed as superior to their opposite sex but these women, changed that narrative exceeding their husbands in money, practical power and influence.

These families traded titles in turn for incredible dowries, jointures and salaries. These American families were viewed one rank above their partners in the American business scene and were hailed by the nouveau riche culture of Americans, who were fascinated by the old money in Europe and wanted to be them. Whereas these British families were looked down upon by their piers, Queen Victoria once said to a duke, "What causes such curse and desperation that you has to marry a carpetbagger.". During this time, Americans were viewed as rural and pastoral by high society or arrivistes.

Whatever, must it has caused them, these now baronesses, duchesses and vicereines had made their stamp on sovereign Britain. Their ancestry can be traced to the Royal Family and the House of Lords.