Million Dollar American Princesses

Season 22015

Join Elizabeth McGovern as she takes an in-depth look at the young American heiresses whose real life stories inspired the acclaimed TV drama Downton Abbey. This series explores the time between the 1870s and the outbreak of World War One, when more than 200 daughters of America's new industrial millionaires marry into the money-strapped British aristocracy. They use their affluence, allure and ingenuity to their advantage, and they bring dramatic changes to the English ruling class and eventually the world.

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3 Episodes

E01 Cash For Class

They're commonly called "the nouveau riche." Snubbed by New York's old-money families, these ambitious new millionaires, along with their daughters, set their sights on England, and quickly gain entry into the highest levels of the British aristocracy. Join "Downton Abbey" star Elizabeth McGovern as she explores the first transatlantic marriages of the late 1800s. Some will be inspired by love. Some are destined to be simply crude dollar-for-title deals. All of them, collectively, will change the course of history.

January 4, 2015

E02 Wedding of the Century

Marriages between the daughters of new-money Americans and a cash-strapped British aristocracy hit its stride by 1895. But these unions come at a price, financially and emotionally. While some women find true love overseas, others, like Consuelo Vanderbilt, find themselves mired in misery, loneliness and scandal. Host Elizabeth McGovern reveals how their stories inspired the hit series "Downton Abbey." Then, she explores how the daughters of America's wealthy industrialists survived, and even thrived, in their new aristocratic surroundings.

January 11, 2015

E03 Movers & Shakers

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.

January 18, 2015

Million Dollar American Princesses

E01 Cash For Class

E02 Wedding of the Century

E03 Movers & Shakers

Squid Game

Itaewon Class

Money Heist

Business Proposal

Crash Landing on You

Goblin

Hellbound

Extraordinary Attorney Woo

Boys Over Flowers

Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha

Alchemy of Souls

Another Miss Oh

It's Okay to Not Be Okay

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Happiness

Sky of Love: Someone I love is there

Lucifer

Scarlet Heart: Ryeo

Are You Human?

Master's Sun

E01 Cash For Class

E02 Wedding of the Century

E03 Movers & Shakers