Lady Grantham of ‘Downton Abbey’ is definately not an anomaly. British aristocrats married American heiresses in droves in the early 1900s. But had been it surely since straightforward as ‘cash for class’?
Tim Teeman
Senior Editor and Writer
PBS/Photofest
It’s the many animated this Downton Abbey fan has ever seen Lady Grantham. Elizabeth McGovern, whom plays the time detergent opera’s slack-jawed, sleepy-eyed matriarch Cora—who constantly appears listlessly zonked, whatever catastrophe has simply befallen her spouse or unlucky-in-love daughters—gallops with gusto through the tales associated with the real-life American heiresses who married British aristocrats in the Smithsonian Channel’s documentary series Million Dollar American Princesses. Okumaya devam et “The Real-Life ‘Downton’ Millionairesses Who Changed Britain”