Richard Jay Hutto, Historian, Author and Lecturer
Description: With never-published photographs, excerpts from correspondence, and interviews with descendants, author Richard Jay Hutto has painted a fascinating picture of money, beauty, power, and palaces--the lifestyles of the rich and famous--a lifestyle not entirely ended.
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Winston Churchill was proud of his half-American heritage. His mother, the beautiful Jennie Jerome, was the forerunner of an onslaught of American heiresses who wed titled husbands. A few of the marriages were happy but many were crass exchanges of titles for dollars. By the end of the 19th century, literally millions of dollars had exchanged hands and it was difficult to find a titled family that did not include at least one marriage to a wealthy American wife. In this collection of stories, Richard Jay Hu
Author: Richard Jay Hutto Hardback, 212 pp. $29.95 ISBN 978-1-934144-37-4
Americans have heard of King Edward VIII's Wallis Simpson, "the woman I love," for whom he gave up the throne of England. Many recall the beautiful wedding fifty years ago when Grace Kelly became Princess of Monaco. But there are more than one hundred marriages of American women to princes and dukes. Some were calculated business arrangements designed to secure a title while replenishing the bank accounts of destitute royal and noble families. Others were true love affairs. With never-published photographs,
Richard Jay Hutto, Historian, Author and Lecturer