Swept away by HBO's The Gilded Age? Me too. But how much of what we see on screen actually happened? In this episode of The Gilded Heiresses, I pull back the gilded curtain on 1880s New York…from Mrs Astor's infamous "Four Hundred" and Alva Vanderbilt's legendary 1883 ball, to the real battles between old money and new, the mansions that rivalled palace…
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Gilded Heiresses
Exploring the real lives of American heiresses in the Gilded Age — the women who inspired HBO’s The Gilded Age.
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