- Featured in this installment: Wallis Simpson, Nancy Astor, and Maud Cunard.
- It's the early 20th century, about forty years after American heiresses first streamed overseas to trade cash for British titles, and England finds itself undergoing seismic political changes. The end of the First World War has brought amazing opportunities for women, especially the American transports. Over the next two decades, they will take high society by storm, take a seat in Parliament, and even take down a king. Experience these women's remarkable stories, which inspired "Downton Abbey," and discover how their legacy lives on today.
- By the 1930s, the legacy of America's millionaire princesses paves the way for a new generation of American women to enter, and transform, the British ruling class. Some will leave their marriages to explore independent destinies, one will trade charisma instead of wealth to marry into royalty, and one will unwittingly bring about the greatest royal crisis of the 20th century. Witness stories of character and courage as these women escape loveless marriages, break barriers, create their own happy endings and make history. Featured in this installment: Wallis Simpson, for whom Edward VIII abdicated his throne; Nancy Astor, who married Waldorf Astor and eventually became a viscountess and then the first women ever elected to Parliament; and Maud Cunard, baroness and society hostess.
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