List of American heiresses
This is a list of some American socialites, 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.
Before 1865
- Countess Vincent von Rumpff on 25 October 1825
- Marianne Wellesley, Marchioness Wellesley on 29 October 1825
- Catherine Murat, Princess Murat and Princess of Naples on 12 July 1826
- Caroline Murat, Princess Murat and Princess of Pontecorvo on 18 August 1831
- Elizabeth Stafford-Jerningham, Baroness Stafford on 26 May 1836
- Jane de Pierres, Baroness de Pierres on 7 June 1842
- Adeline de La Valette, Marquise de La Valette in 1842
- Countess :fr:André Étienne Justin Pascal Joseph François d'Audebert de Férussac|Amédée d'Audebert de Férussac on 27 August 1845
- Mary Cunard, Lady Cunard in May 1849
- Baroness :de:August von Wächter|August von Waechter-Lautenbach on 19 December 1855
- Eliza Pellew, Viscountess Exmouth on 5 October 1858
- Princess Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Princess von Noer on 3 November 1864, then Countess Alfred von Waldersee on 14 April 1874
From 1865 to 1965
- The Hon. Mrs Ralph Harbord on 5 September 1865
- Mathilde Lante Montefeltro della Rovere, Princess and Duchess Lante Montefeltro della Rovere on 28 April 1866
- Elizabeth de Talleyrand-Périgord, Marquise de Talleyrand on 18 March 1867
- Elise, Countess of Edla on 10 June 1869
- Baroness Gustav von Overbeck on 16 March 1870
- Augusta Pellew, Viscountess Exmouth on 14 May 1873
- Lady Randolph Spencer-Churchill on 15 April 1874
- Alice Chapelle de Jumilhac, Duchess de Richelieu on 27 February 1875, then Princess of Monaco on 30 October 1889
- Consuelo Montagu, Duchess of Manchester on 22 May 1876
- Mary Paget, Lady Paget on 27 July 1878
- The Hon. Mrs James Roche on 22 September 1880
- Médora Manca-Amat de Vallombrosa, Marquise de Morès et de Montemaggiore on 15 February 1882
- Josephine Ruspoli, Princess of Poggio Suasa on 18 June 1885
- Tennessee Cook, Lady Cook and Viscountess de Monserrate on 15 October 1885
- Adele de Talleyrand-Périgord, Duchess of Dino on 25 January 1887
- Princess Louis de Scey-Montbéliard on 27 July 1887, then Princess Edmond de Polignac on 15 December 1893
- Lily Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough on 29 June 1888, then Lady William Beresford on 30 April 1895
- Clara de Riquet, Princess de Caraman-Chimay on 19 May 1890
- Princess Friedrich Wilhelm von Ardeck, Princess von Ardeck on 17 December 1890, then Baroness József Döry de Jobaháza on 4 February 1904
- Adele Capell, Countess of Essex on 14 December 1893
- on 27 November 1894
- The Hon. Mrs Bertrand Russell on 13 December 1894
- Countess Boni de Castellane on 4 March 1895, then Duchess de Sagan on 7 July 1908
- Maud Cunard, Lady Cunard on 18 April 1895
- Mary Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston, Vicereine of India on 22 April 1895
- Pauline Paget, Baroness Queenborough on 25 July 1895
- Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough on 6 November 1895
- , Baroness Fairhaven on 12 November 1895
- Princess Pierre Troubetzkoy on 18 February 1896
- Princess Mikhail Cantacuzène, Countess Speransky on 24 September 1899
- Helena Montagu, Duchess of Manchester on 14 November 1900, then Helena Keith-Falconer, Countess of Kintore on 23 November 1937
- Countess Aldebert de Chambrun on 19 February 1901
- Alice Seymour, Countess of Yarmouth on 27 April 1903
- Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe on 10 November 1903
- Countess Josef Gizycki on 14 April 1904
- Countess Louis de Gontaut-Biron on 27 June 1904
- The Hon. Mrs Frederick Guest on 28 June 1905
- Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor on 3 May 1906
- Mary Falle, Baroness Portsea on 18 July 1906.
- Mary Elsie Torlonia, Princess di Civitella-Cesi on 15 August 1907
- Countess László Széchenyi de Sárvár-Felsővidék on 27 January 1908
- Jean Ward, Lady Ward on 23 June 1908
- Hazel Lavery, Lady Lavery in 1909
- Beatrice Forbes, Countess of Granard on 14 January 1909
- Princess Miguel of Braganza on 15 September 1909
- Margaretta Finch-Hatton, Countess of Winchilsea on 8 June 1910
- Mildred Acheson, Countess of Gosford on 21 June 1910
- Helen Eliot, Countess of St Germans on 22 June 1910
- Marguerite Caetani, Princess di Bassiano and Duchess di Sermoneta in 1911
- Helen Beresford, Baroness Decies on 7 February 1911
- Princess Victor von Thurn und Taxis on 1 November 1911
- Helena Murat, Princess Murat on 6 February 1913
- Laura Rospigliosi, Princess Rospigliosi on 30 June 1914
- Countess Gyula Apponyi de Nagy-Appony on 29 July 1914
- Countess Roger de Périgny on 17 August 1915
- Grace Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston on 2 January 1917
- Princess Houreddin Vlora on 20 June 1917
- Baroness Friedrich von und zu Weichs zur Wenne on 28 September 1917
- Princess Afonso of Braganza on 23 November 1917
- Princess Dmitri Golitsyn on 19 April 1919
- Ava Lister, Baroness Ribblesdale on 5 June 1919
- Countess Eugeniusz Dąmbski on 5 November 1919, then Princess Serge Mdivani on 14 May 1927
- Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark on 1 January 1920
- Mary Wallop, Viscountess Lymington on 31 July 1920
- Gladys Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough on 25 June 1921
- Edith Paget, Baroness Queenborough on 19 July 1921
- Countess Frédéric de Janzé on 21 September 1921
- Catherine Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon on 17 July 1922
- Countess Roger de Périgny on 12 November 1923
- Countess Ludwig von Salm-Hoogstraeten on 8 January 1924
- Iris Origo, Marquise di Val d'Orcia on 4 March 1924
- Princess Viggo of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Countess af Rosenborg on 10 June 1924
- Princess Obolensky-Neledinsky-Meletzky on 24 July 1924, then Ava Hofmann, Edle von Hofmannsthal on 21 January 1933
- Margaret Caracciolo, Princess di Castagneto and Duchess di Melito on 8 January 1925
- Gloria Le Bailly de La Falaise, Marquise de La Coudraye on 28 January 1925
- Kay Bourbon del Monte, Princess di San Faustino on 30 March 1925
- Baroness Roland de Graffenried de Villars on 5 May 1925
- Princess Mstislav Galitzine, Countess Ostermann on 22 September 1925
- Elsie Mendl, Lady Mendl on 10 March 1926
- Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness on 27 June 1926
- Princess David Mdivani on 27 June 1926
- Princess Romanovskaya-Ilyinskaya on 21 November 1926, then Princess Dimitri Djordjadze in March 1937
- Countess André-Marie de Saint-Phalle on 7 June 1927
- Doña Margaret Cuevas, Marquise de Piedrablanca de Guana, aka Marquise de Cuevas on 3 August 1927
- Countess Folke Bernadotte, Countess af Wisborg on 1 December 1928
- Princess Serge Mdivani on 27 April 1931
- Constance Le Bailly de La Falaise, Marquise de La Coudraye on 22 November 1931
- Katherine Runciman, Viscountess Runciman of Doxford on 11 April 1932
- Lady Charles Cavendish 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 in November 1955
- Elizabeth Beresford, Baroness Decies on 25 May 1936
- Geraldine Lindsay-Hogg, Lady Lindsay-Hogg on 18 November 1936
- Wallis Windsor, Duchess of Windsor on 3 June 1937
- Virginia Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey on 30 July 1937
- Princess Artchil Gourielli-Tchkonia in June 1938
- Lela de Talleyrand-Périgord, Duchess de Talleyrand and Duchess di Dino on 30 August 1938
- The Hon. Mrs Cecil Howard on 12 February 1939
- Countess Oleg Cassini Loiewski on 1 June 1941
- Princess Vladimir Eristavi-Tchitcherine on 15 June 1941
- Josephine Molyneux, Countess of Sefton on 9 December 1941
- Oona Chaplin, Lady Chaplin on 16 June 1943
- Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington on 6 May 1944
- Doña María Aline Griffith Dexter de Figueroa Perez de Guzmán, Countess de Quintanilla and Countess de Romanones in 1947
- Princess Alexander zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst on 21 May 1951
- Virginia Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie on 23 October 1952
- Baroness Philippe de Rothschild on 8 April 1954
- Countess Albrecht von Bismarck-Schönhausen on 5 January 1955
- The Princess of Monaco on 19 April 1956
- Princess Alfred von Auersperg on 20 July 1957
- Nobile Catherine Cordero di Montezemolo in 1958
- Princess Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł on 19 March 1959
- Princess Andrew Romanov on 21 March 1961
- Nancy Keith, Baroness Keith of Castleacre in 1962
After 1965
- Countess Augusto Gregorini di Savignano di Romagna in 1966, then Barbara Starkey, Lady Starkey on 27 April 1981
- Baroness Otto Kurt von Hoffmann in 1966
- Princess Joan of Luxembourg on 1 March 1967, then Duchess de Mouchy on 3 August 1978
- Linda McCartney, Lady McCartney on 12 March 1969
- Pamela Ormsby-Gore, Baroness Harlech on 11 December 1969
- Baroness Donald von Wiedenmann on 12 July 1971
- Victoria de Rothschild, Lady de Rothschild on 1 July 1973
- Catherine de Castelbajac, Marquise de Castelbajac on 5 April 1979
- Baroness Arnaud de Rosnay on 12 September 1981, then Countess Emmanuel de Buretel on 29 August 1993
- Frau Martin Rochus Sebastian von Haselberg on 16 December 1984
- Jamie Haden-Guest, Baroness Haden-Guest on 18 December 1984
- Countess Carl-Eduard von Bismarck-Schönhausen on 27 February 1987
- Princess Andrew Romanov on 17 December 1987
- Kathleen Buxton, Baroness Buxton of Alsa on 16 July 1988
- Countess Alexandre de Lesseps on 16 March 1993
- Countess Patrick Houitte de la Chesnais on 1 April 1993
- Princess Alexander-Georg von Auersperg on 10 June 1995
- Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece on 1 July 1995
- Princess Alexander von Fürstenberg on 28 October 1995
- Princess Paul-Philippe von Hohenzollern on 15 September 1996
Fictional American heiresses
- Alexis Colby, Fallon Carrington Colby, Amanda Carrington, Krystle Carrington and Dominique Deveraux on the TV series Dynasty
- Pam Ewing, April Stevens Ewing, Ann Ewing, Sue Ellen Ewing, Valene Ewing and Lucy Ewing on the TV series Dallas
- Constance Weldon Carlyle in the primetime television soap opera Flamingo Road
- Angela Channing in the primetime television soap opera Falcon Crest
- Sue Ellen Mischke in the sitcom Seinfeld
- Mary Beth, Andrew Van de Kamp's friend on the television series Desperate Housewives
- Stephanie Forrester, Pamela Douglas, Felicia Forrester, Steffy Forrester, Phoebe Forrester, Brooke Logan, Taylor Forrester, Darla Forrester, Caroline Spencer and Caroline Spencer Forrester in the TV soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful
- Mackenzie Browning, Gloria Abbott Bardwell, Jill Foster Abbott, Victoria Newman, Cassie Newman, Abby Newman, Summer Newman, Colleen Carlton, Faith Newman, Ashley Abbott, Katie Newman and Katherine Chancellor in the TV soap opera The Young and the Restless
- Victoria Lord, Meredith Lord, Tina Lord, Megan Gordon, Jessica Buchanan, Natalie Buchanan, Sarah Roberts, Starr Manning, Dorian Lord, Blair Cramer, Kelly Cramer, Adriana Cramer, Cassie Callison, Langston Wilde in the TV soap opera One Life to Live
- Claire Meade and Alexis Meade in the American dramedy series Ugly Betty
- Cora Crawley on the British period drama TV series Downton Abbey