From: petertrei@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/5/2024 11:24 AM, Tim Merrigan wrote:   
   > On 9/4/2024 5:55 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:   
   >> On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 02:19:08 -0000 (UTC), "Keith F. Lynch"   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Burroughs was a man of his time.   
   >>   
   >> And his time, it was a-changing.   I don't know how many stories told   
   >> of nobly marrying a girl of common birth, only to discover that she   
   >> was a mislaid princess.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > Wasn't that about the time destitute British nobles marrying the   
   > children (daughters mostly) of wealthy Americans started?   
      
   There were a lot of "Dollar Princesses" during the Gilded Age.   
      
   One prominent example of the progeny of such a marriage is   
   Winston Churchill.   
      
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