List of American heiresses

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Catherine Murat, Princess Murat (née Catherine Daingerfield Willis)

This is a non-exhaustive list of some American socialites, so called American dollar princesses, from before the Gilded Age to the end of the 20th century, who married into the European titled nobility, peerage, or royalty. The titles in this list are all mentioned or translated into English.

From 1865 to 1965

After the beginning of the Reconstruction Era and the Gilded Age (at the end of the American Civil War on 9 May 1865):

Lady George Hugo Cholmondeley (née Clara Elizabeth Taylor, previously Stirling)
Baroness Eugène von Rothschild; formerly Countess Erwein von Schönborn-Buchheim (née Kitty Wolff)
Princess Alfred zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (née Catherine Britton)

After 1965

No hereditary peerages have been created in the UK since Baron Margadale on 1 January 1965.

Fictional American heiresses

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