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How Gilded Age women used portraits to define themselves
Portraits and Power of Gilded Heiresses
Feb 10
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Julie Montagu
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Lost Mansions of the Gilded Age
Alberta, Family Houses, and What Survives
Feb 8
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Julie Montagu
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How Britain’s Country Estates Became Winter Playgrounds for Heiresses
Where frost met firelight, and privilege did the rest.
Jan 29
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Julie Montagu
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The Rise of Steam: How Gilded Heiresses Travelled
A sneak peek at what's to come
Jan 27
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Julie Montagu
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8:20
A Dollar Princess and Four Hundred Wedding Presents
The newspapers, as newspapers always do, got there first.
Jan 25
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Julie Montagu
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Consuelo Vanderbilt at Blenheim: Marriage, Money, and the Cost of a Title
I filmed this at Blenheim a couple of years ago, during a period when I was spending long days immersed in Consuelo’s world — walking the rooms, reading…
Jan 24
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Julie Montagu
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Caroline Astor: The Velvet Gloved Bouncer of the Gilded Age
Meet Mrs Astor, the woman who perfected the art of exclusion.
Jan 22
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Julie Montagu
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A Dream Come True: My First Talk at the V&A
Today’s post comes to you from the Muniment Room aka archive room, where I am currently surrounded by Alberta Sturges’ letters and diaries and feeling a…
Jan 21
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Julie Montagu
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Champagne, Five-Day Crossings… and the Day the Lusitania Sank
How speed, modern life, and one American heiress turned a public disaster into a private memorial
Jan 18
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Julie Montagu
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A Dollar Princess’s Paris — A Walk Through the Diaries
I filmed my recent one-day trip to Paris retracing the childhood footsteps of an American heiress — my husband’s great-grandmother, Alberta Sturges …
Jan 12
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Julie Montagu
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Before She Was a Dollar Princess: A Father’s Letters to His American Heiress
There is a particular kind of letter that never makes it into history books.
Jan 4
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Julie Montagu
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Best of 2025 (or: Four Months In, and Look What Happened)
If you have a moment, please tap the heart 💗— it helps others discover Gilded Heiresses, and I’m so grateful.
Dec 31, 2025
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Julie Montagu
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