Episode 158: Consuelo Vanderbilt & the Gilded Age Dollar Princesses

In this week’s episode we crack open the glittering shell of HBO’s The Gilded Age to meet the real women who inspired its most delicious plotline: America’s “dollar princesses.” When cash-poor British dukes needed money and nouveau-riche American dynasties wanted pedigree, transatlantic marriages became a booming business deal—with Consuelo Vanderbilt as the era’s most famous case. Pushed by her…