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 Hutto has assembled never-published photographs and spoken with descendants of many of those families. Some of their tales are happy, some sad, and some cautionary, but all are fascinating.