For much of the history we're discussed on this podcast, marriages were the best way to advance one's social position. In the Gilded Age, a special subset of advantageous marriages emerged: in which wealthy American heiresses paid generous dowries to marry into the European nobility.
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The Queen Mother Who Refused to Die
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A Medievalist of the Seven Kingdoms (with Dr. Hugh Doherty)
33:23