List of American heiresses

This is a list of some American socialites, from the Gilded Age to the end of the 20th century, who married into the European nobility, peerage and royalty :

— The titles of this list are all mentioned or translated into English —

Princess Friedrich Emil August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Princess von Noer on 3 November 1864, then Countess Alfred von Waldersee on 14 April 1874 (née Mary Esther Lee)

Countess Carl Gustaf von Rosen (née Ella Carlton Moore) on 10 November 1864

Beginning of the Reconstruction Era and the Gilded Age (at the End of the American Civil War) on 9 May 1865

Hon. Mrs Ralph Harbord (née Elizabeth Pole Schenley) on 5 September 1865

Mathilde Lante Montefeltro della Rovere, Princess and Duchess Lante Montefeltro della Rovere (née Mathilde "Tilly" Davis) on 28 April 1866

Elisa de Saxe-Coburgo e Gotha, Countess de Edla (née Elise "Elisa" Friedericke Hensler, previously De Azevedo Gomes) on 10 June 1869

Lady Randolph Spencer-Churchill (née Jeanette "Jennie" Jerome, aka the first known American Dollar Princess in Europe) on 15 April 1874

Alice Chapelle de Jumilhac, Duchess de Richelieu on 27 February 1875, then Princess of Monaco on 30 October 1889 (née Alice Heine)

Consuelo Montagu, Duchess of Manchester (née Consuelo Yznaga) on 22 May 1876

Frances Roche, Baroness Fermoy (née Frances Ellen Work) on 22 September 1880

Médora Manca-Amat de Vallombrosa, Marchioness de Morès et de Montemaggiore (née Medora Marie von Hoffmann) on 15 February 1882

Tennessee Cook, Lady Cook and Viscountess de Monserrate (née Tennessee Celeste Claflin) on 15 October 1885

Princess Louis de Scey-Montbéliard on 27 July 1887, then Princess Edmond de Polignac on 15 December 1893 (née Winnaretta Eugenie Singer)

Lily Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough on 29 June 1888, then Lady William Leslie de la Poer Beresford on 30 April 1895 (née Jane Lilian "Lily" Warren Price, previously Hammersley)

Clara de Riquet, Princess de Caraman-Chimay (née Clara Ward) on 19 May 1890

Princess Friedrich Wilhelm von Ardeck, Princess von Ardeck (née Anne Hollingsworth Price) on 17 December 1890

Adele Capell, Countess of Essex (née Adele Grant) on 14 December 1893

Lady Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope (née Mary Augusta "May" Yohé, aka the first known American Stage Princess in Europe) on 27 November 1894

Hon. Mrs Bertrand Arthur William Russell (née Alys Whitall Pearsall Smith) on 13 December 1894

Countess Boni de Castellane on 4 March 1895, then Duchess de Sagan on 7 July 1908 (née Anna Gould)

Maud Cunard, Lady Cunard (née Maud Alice Burke) on 18 April 1895

Mary Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston, Vicereine of India (née Mary Victoria Leiter) on 22 April 1895

Pauline Paget, Baroness Queenborough (née Pauline Payne Whitney) on 25 July 1895

Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (née Consuelo Vanderbilt) on 6 November 1895

Cara Broughton, Baroness Fairhaven (née Cara Leland Rogers, previously Duff) on 12 November 1895

Princess Pierre Troubetzkoy (née Amélie Louise Rives, previously Chanler) on 18 February 1896

Princess Mikhail Cantacuzène, Countess Speransky (née Julia Dent Grant) on 24 September 1899

Countess Aldebert de Chambrun (née Clara Eleanor Longworth) on 19 February 1901

Alice Seymour, Countess of Yarmouth (née Alice Cornelia Thaw) on 27 April 1903

Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe (née Mary "May" Goelet) on 10 November 1903

Countess Josef Gizycki (née Eleanor Josephine Medill "Cissy" Patterson) on 14 April 1904

Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (née Nancy Witcher Langhorne, previously Shaw) on 3 May 1906

Mary Elsie Torlonia, Princess di Civitella-Cesi (née Mary Elsie Moore) on 15 August 1907

Countess László Széchenyi de Sárvár-Felsővidék (née Gladys Moore Vanderbilt) on 27 January 1908

Hazel Lavery, Lady Lavery (née Hazel Martyn, previously Trudeau) in 1909

Beatrice Forbes, Countess of Granard (née Beatrice Mills) on 14 January 1909

Princess Miguel of Braganza (née Anita Rhinelander Stewart) on 15 September 1909

Helen Beresford, Baroness Decies (née Helen Vivien Gould) on 7 February 1911

Princess Victor von Thurn und Taxis (née Lida Eleanor Nicolls, previously Fitzgerald) on 1 November 1911

Countess Gyula Apponyi de Nagy-Appony (née Gladys Virginia Steuart) on 29 July 1914

Countess Roger de Périgny (née Frances Evelyn "Fannie" Bostwick, previously Francis) on 17 August 1915

Grace Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (née Grace Elvina Hinds, previously Duggan) on 2 January 1917

Princess Houreddin Vlora (née Helen Margaret Kelly, previously Thomas) on 20 June 1917

Baroness Napoléon Gourgaud (née Eva Gebhard) on 25 September 1917

Baroness Friedrich von und zu Weichs zur Wenne (née Vernal Edna Andrews, aka Fern Andra) on 28 September 1917

Princess Afonso of Braganza (née Nevada Stoody Hayes, previously Van Valkenburgh) on 23 November 1917

Princess Dmitri Golitsyn (née Frances Simpson Stevens) on 19 April 1919

Ava Lister, Baroness Ribblesdale (née Ava Lowle Willing, previously Astor) on 5 June 1919

Countess Eugeniusz Dąmbski on 5 November 1919, then Princess Serge Mdivani on 14 May 1927 (née Apolonia Chałupiec, aka Pola Negri)

Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark (née Nonie "Nancy" May Stewart, previously Leeds) on 1 January 1920

Countess Jean de Maupas de Juglart (née Laura Consuelo Morgan) on 8 July 1920

Gladys Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (née Gladys Marie Deacon) on 25 June 1921

Edith Paget, Baroness Queenborough (née Edith Starr Miller) on 19 July 1921

Countess Frédéric de Janzé (née Alice Silverthorne) on 21 September 1921

Countess Roger de Périgny (née Margaret Copley Thaw, previously Carnegie) on 12 November 1923

Countess Ludwig von Salm-Hoogstraeten (née Mary Millicent Abigail Rogers) on 8 January 1924

Iris Origo, Marchioness di Val d'Orcia (née Iris Margaret Cutting) on 4 March 1924

Princess Viggo of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Countess af Rosenborg (née Eleanor Margaret Green) on 10 June 1924

Princess Obolensky-Neledinsky-Meletzky on 24 July 1924, then Ava Hofmann, Edle von Hofmannsthal on 21 January 1933 (née Ava Alice Muriel Astor)

Margaret Caracciolo, Princess di Castagneto and Duchess di Melito (née Margaret Clarke) on 8 January 1925

Gloria Le Bailly de La Falaise, Marchioness de La Coudraye (née Gloria May Josephine Swanson, previously Somborn) on 28 January 1925

Kay Bourbon del Monte, Princess di San Faustino (née Katherine "Kay" Linn Sage) on 30 March 1925

Countess Roland de Graffenried de Villars (née Dorothy Gould) on 5 May 1925

Princess Mstislav Galitzine, Countess Ostermann (née Amy "Aimée" Isabella Crocker, previously Miskinoff) on 22 September 1925

Elsie Mendl, Lady Mendl (née Ella "Elsie" Anderson De Wolfe) on 10 March 1926

Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness (née Thelma Morgan, previously Converse) on 27 June 1926

Princess David Mdivani (née Marie Adrienne Koenig, aka Mae Murray) on 27 June 1926

Princess Romanovskaya-Ilyinskaya on 21 November 1926, then Princess Dimitri Djordjadze on March 1937 (née Anna Audrey Emery)

Countess André-Marie de Saint-Phalle (née Jeanne Jacqueline Harper) on 7 June 1927

Margaret Cuevas, Marchioness de Piedrablanca de Guana, aka Marchioness de Cuevas (née Margaret Rockefeller Strong) on 3 August 1927

Countess Folke Bernadotte, Countess af Wisborg (née Estelle Romaine Manville) on 1 December 1928

Princess Serge Mdivani (née Mamie Harris, aka Mary McCormic, previously Rankin) on 27 April 1931

Constance Le Bailly de La Falaise, Marchioness de La Coudraye (née Constance Campbell Bennett, previously Plant) on 22 November 1931

Katherine Runciman, Viscountess Runciman of Doxford (née Katherine Schuyler Garrison) on 11 April 1932

Lady Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish (née Adele Marie Austerlitz, aka Adele Astaire) on 9 May 1932

Countess Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow on 14 May 1935, then Princess Igor Troubetzkoy on 1 April 1947, then Baroness Gottfried von Cramm on November 1955 (née Barbara Woolworth Hutton)

Elizabeth Beresford, Baroness Decies (née Elizabeth Wharton Drexel) on 25 May 1936

Geraldine Fitzgerald, Lady Lindsay-Hogg (née Geraldine Mary Fitzgerald) on 18 November 1936

Wallis Windsor, Duchess of Windsor (née Bessie Wallis Warfield, previously Simpson) on 3 June 1937

Virginia Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey (née Virginia Cherrill, previously Grant) on 30 July 1937

Princess Artchil Gourielli-Tchkonia (née Chaya Rubinstein, aka Helena Rubinstein, previously Titus) in June 1938

Lela de Talleyrand-Périgord, Duchess de Talleyrand and Duchess di Dino (née Lela Alexander Emery, previously Mackintosh) on 30 August 1938

Hon. Mrs Cecil John Arthur Howard (née Frances Dean, aka Frances Drake) on 12 February 1939

Countess Oleg Cassini Loiewski (née Gene Eliza Tierney) on 1 June 1941

Princess Vladimir Eristavi-Tchitcherine (née Lucy Cotton, previously Magraw) on 15 June 1941

Oona Chaplin, Lady Chaplin (née Oona O'Neill) on 16 June 1943

Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (née Kathleen Agnes "Kick" Kennedy) on 6 May 1944

Doña María Aline Griffith Dexter de Figueroa Perez de Guzmán, Countess de Quintanilla and Countess de Romanones (née Aline Griffith) in 1947

Princess Alexander zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (née Patricia Anne "Honeychile" Wilder, previously Cernadas) on 21 May 1951

Virginia Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie (née Virginia Fortune Ryan) on 23 October 1952

Baroness Philippe de Rothschild (née Pauline Fairfax Potter, previously Leser) on 8 April 1954

Countess Albrecht von Bismarck-Schönhausen (née Mona Travis Strader, previously Williams, aka Mona Bismarck) on 5 January 1955

The Princess of Monaco (née Grace Patricia Kelly) on 19 April 1956

Princess Alfred von Auersperg (née Martha Sharp Crawford, aka "Sunny" von Bülow) on 20 July 1957

Nobile Catherine Cordero di Montezemolo (née Catherine Murray, aka Catherine di Montezemolo) in 1958

Princess Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł (née Caroline Lee Bouvier, previously Canfield) on 19 March 1959

Princess Andrew Romanov (née Kathleen Norris, previously Roberts) on 21 March 1961

End of the practice of granting hereditary peerages in the UK (with the Baron Margadale) on 1 January 1965

Lady Charles George William Colin Spencer-Churchill (née Gillian Spreckels Fuller) on 23 July 1965

Baroness Otto Kurt von Hoffmann (née Barbara Kingsbury, aka Barbara Carrera) in 1966

Princess Joan of Luxembourg on 1 March 1967, then Duchess de Mouchy on 3 August 1978 (née Joan Douglas Dillon, previously Moseley)

Linda McCartney, Lady McCartney (née Linda Louise Eastman, previously See) on 12 March 1969

Baroness Donald von Wiedenmann (née Ellen Naomi Cohen, aka Cass Elliot, previously Hendricks) on 12 July 1971

Victoria de Rothschild, Lady de Rothschild (née Victoria Lou Schott) on 1 July 1973

Catherine de Castelbajac, Marchioness de Castelbajac (née Katherine "Catherine" "Kate" Lee Chambers) in 1979

Baroness Arnaud de Rosnay (née Jenna Severson, aka Jenna de Rosnay) in 1981

Frau Martin Rochus Sebastian von Haselberg (née Bette Midler) on 16 December 1984

Jamie Haden-Guest, Baroness Haden-Guest (née Jamie Lee Curtis) on 18 December 1984

Countess Carl-Eduard von Bismarck-Schönhausen (née Laura Elena Herring Martínez, aka Laura Harring) on 27 February 1987

Kathleen Buxton, Baroness Buxton of Alsa (née Kathleen Peterson) on 16 July 1988

Countess Alexandre de Lesseps (née LuAnn Nadeau, aka LuAnn de Lesseps) on 16 March 1993

Countess Patrick Houitte de la Chesnais (née Stefanie Zofya Paul, aka Stefanie Powers, previously Lockwood) on 1 April 1993

Princess Alexander-Georg von Auersperg (née Nancy Louise Weinberg) on 10 June 1995

Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece (née Marie-Chantal Miller) on 1 July 1995

Princess Alexander von Fürstenberg (née Alexandra Natasha Miller) on 28 October 1995

Princess Paul-Philippe von Hohenzollern (née Lia Georgia Triff, previously Belli) on 15 September 1996

These are some other major American heiresses, living and past:

Barbara Daly Baekeland

Aline Barnsdall

Georgina Bloomberg

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Susan Alice Buffett

Whitney Kroenke Burditt

Sarah Turner Butler

Nancy Cunard

Katharine Drexel

Doris Duke

Mary Billings French

Florence Harding

Amanda Hearst

Anne Hearst

Patty Hearst

Lydia Hearst-Shaw

Francesca Hilton

Nicky Hilton

Paris Hilton

Brooke Hogan

Casey Johnson

Teresa Heinz Kerry

Ann Walton Kroenke

Kate Macy Ladd

Nancy Walton Laurie

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Victoria B. Mars

Cindy McCain

Loraine McMurrey

Marie-Christophe de Menil

Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer

Tinsley Mortimer

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Edie Sedgwick

Kyra Sedgwick

Victoria Siegel

Lynsi Snyder

Sylvana Tomaselli

Henrietta Tower

Ivanka Trump

Gloria Vanderbilt

Grace Vanderbilt

Flora Payne Whitney

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Olivia Wilde