A Dollar Princess’s First English Christmas

An American bride, an ancestral home, and the Earl who did not smile

Christmas 1905 was not meant to look like this.

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A Christmas That Was Never Going to Feel Ordinary

For the first time in her life, Alberta Sturges was spending Christmas away from her family. Newly married, newly arrived, newly transplanted into England, she found herself doing something that every American heiress before her would recognise instinctively: learning, very quickly, that marriage did not simply mean a new husband — it meant a new country, a new family, and a set of unspoken rules no one thought to explain.