‘Million Dollar American Princesses’
The November, both HBO’s The Gilded Age and Apple TV+’s new adaptation of Edith Wharton’s The Buccaneers will plunge 21st century viewers into the opulent world of the late 1800s. While the robber barons and titans of industry of this age usually get all the airtime on the History Channel, these newly wealthy men’s daughters subtly changed the course of history. Smithsonian Channel’s fizzy docuseries Million Dollar American Princesses tells the true stories of the dozens of Yankee heiresses who married into the English aristocracy, forever changing high society forever. Downton Abbey star Elizabeth McGovern hosts this series, which looks at everyone from Jennie Jerome to Consuelo Vanderbilt, and everyone in between. Need more Gilded Age? Desperate for some background on The Buccaneers? Million Dollar American Princesses is your answer.