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Americans and Britons clash over international marriages
A long meditation on American women marrying foreign nobles highlights Jennie Jerome and Mary Vanderbilt as early and modern examples. It notes wealth, status, and love as motives while weighing gains and losses for the United States and lists a string of prominent marriages across generations in Britain and Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Dickinson Sherman Eformers
Germany
Henry James
Jennie Jerome
Brooklyn
Lord Randolph Churchill
England
Marlboroughs
London
Randy
Winny
Winston Churchill
Capt
George Cornwallis-West
St. St. Margaret's Church
Westminster
Britain
Lady Astor
Nancy Witcher Langhorne
Virginia
Robert Gould Shaw
Lord Astor
William Waldorf Astor
Astor
Consuelo Vanderbilt
A Churchill
Duke of Marlborough
Willem K. Vanderbilt
Oo. H. P. Belmont
National Woman's Party
Cornelia Vanderbilt
George W. Vanderbilt
John Francis Amherst Cecil
William Cecil
Biltmore
N. G
United States
Cecil
Anna Gould
Count Boni de Castellane
Duke de Talleyrand-Perigord
Prince de Sagan
Mary Victoria Lester
Chicago
Lord Curzon
Earl of
Continents
Mary Millicent Rogers
New York
H. H. Rogers
Standard Oil Fame
Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraten
Henry H. Rogers
Paris
Europe
Berlin
Vienna
Prince Viggo
Denmark
Eleanor Margaret Green
Abram S. Hewitt
Peter Cooper
Princess Eleanor of Denmark
Rosenborg
Viggo
Christian X
Jacob Wendell
Hertfordshire
Philippa
Randolph Algernon Ronald Stewart