Claire Evans will present:  From Uptown Girls to Downton Abbey: How American Gilded Age Heiresses Invaded the British Aristocracy

Cash-flush Gilded Age American socialites were willing to trade their family’s money for an ancient title and often a chilly reception in the British aristocracy. Fans of “Downton Abbey” and “The Gilded Age” on television and film will delight as Anglophile and former U.K. resident Claire Evans recounts the tales of some of the famously loaded young Americans who infused bank accounts of many stately homes, including close relatives of Winston Churchill and Princess Diana.

And!  Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale hits theaters Sept. 12.

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