'The Buccaneers,' the acclaimed historical drama series currently streaming on Apple TV+, features a group of glamourous young American women whom history has dubbed the "dollar princesses." Wealthy and ambitious, these daughters of the nouveau riche had everything at hand, everything that is except the hand of an ennobled man. And it was a titled husband that these women desired the most. But why did they turn to England to get hitched, and what did British lords get in return?
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