Sheila Woolf gave us a talk entitled Here Come The Girls - a very Special Relationship.

At the end of the 19th century many aristocratic young men found that title alone was insufficient: what their estates needed was cash!

Beautiful young American women often supplied this need, making for the "ideal" marriage for both parties.  This talk considers a variety of Warwickshire's own Anglo-American liaisons, from Coombe to Stoneleigh to Wellesbourne...  "Downton Abbey" with a local twist...