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The Real-Life ‘Downton’ Millionairesses Who Changed Britain

Money Tawwks

Lady Grantham of ‘Downton Abbey’ is far from an anomaly. British aristocrats married American heiresses in droves in the early 1900s. But was it really as simple as ‘cash for class’?

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