I've read enough Regency, Victorian, and Edwardian romances that the topic of this book sounded interesting, so I picked it up when it was on sale recently. As indicated by the blurb, this is a nonfiction book about the American heiresses that married impoverished British nobility, largely in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The book covers the topic thoroughly, from the society snubs that caused the "new money" heiresses to look elsewhere for acceptance, through the expected fripperies involved in a society/nobility marriage, the education and childhood of the American heiress, through to what was expected of a British noble's young wife. There was a lot of interesting information, plenty of anecdotes and individual stories of various nobles and heiresses, and quite a few pictures.

The formatting of this book for Kindle was sloppy, unfortunately, and the book's content suffered as a result. There were several "blocked off" stories used to highlight a chapter's topic, but on the Kindle they simply interrupted the original text, often mid-sentence, causing me to need to page back to catch the thread of the original text when I was done. The formatting was also strangely uneven, with pages displaying differently depending if I paged forward or backwards, although it's possible this is a Kindle quirk and not the fault of the eBook. I also found the long lists of people's names to be better suited for an appendix, rather than chunks in the actual text, and thus they seem like they were filler used just to take up space.

This was an interesting and lighter nonfiction book than I typically read, and I enjoyed it. Fans of this type of romance might find it educational, but those who are not interested in the topic or in similar romances should probably not pick this one up.