Name: 見見這位女繼承人黛西-萊特（與露西-沃斯利合影） (Meet the heiress: Daisy Leiter (with Lucy Worsley))
Uploaded: 2025-06-17T15:09:58.000Z
Duration: 16 min 7 s

This is the name given to rich American heiresses who came over to Britain at the turn of the 20th century and who made a habit of marrying members of the aristocracy.

這是對 20 世紀初來到英國的美國富家女繼承人的稱呼，她們習慣於與貴族成員結婚。

You know, like in Downton Abbey, he brings a title, she brings a fortune.

就像《唐頓莊園》裡那樣，他帶來頭銜，她帶來財富。

But is there something a bit reductive about this term?

但是，這個詞是否有些簡化了？

I've come to meet some of the staff and volunteers for English Heritage here at Kenwood in London to learn about one of the real women behind the label.

我來到倫敦肯伍德與英格蘭遺產的一些工作人員和志願者會面，瞭解標籤背後的一位真實女性。

This dollar princess was called Daisy Lighter.

這位一元公主名叫黛西-打火機。

We are looking at a wonderful and very large portrait of Daisy Lighter by John Singer Sargent that was painted in 1898.

我們現在看到的是約翰-辛格-薩金特（John Singer Sargent）於 1898 年為黛西-萊特（Daisy Lighter）創作的一幅精彩的巨幅肖像畫。

I have never seen a more glamorous looking lady.

And I think she knows it as well by the look on her face.

從她的表情來看，我想她也知道這一點。

It's a very kind of assured, confident portrait.

And it was painted when Daisy was only 19.

But she was entering society at that time.

And it's quite the statement of here I am.

Well, newspapers are actually a kind of interesting way to look at Daisy's life because we try to tease out the fact from the fiction through them.

報紙其實是一種觀察黛西生活的有趣方式，因為我們試圖通過報紙從虛構中找出事實。

She was one of four children born into a very wealthy family and lived a life of real luxury and excess in America.

她出生在一個非常富裕的家庭，是四個孩子中的一個，在美國過著真正奢華富足的生活。

It says here that her father was in dry goods.

這裡說，她的父親是做乾貨生意的。

Dry goods and I think a bit of real estate as well.

And this was this portrait was a gift from Daisy's parents to her when she turned 19.

這幅肖像畫是黛西 19 歲時父母送給她的禮物。

So her sister gets married to an English Lord, Lord Curzon.

於是，她的妹妹嫁給了英國勳爵寇松勳爵。

And Daisy starts getting all of these offers of marriage.

So this was painted the year before she joins her sister in India in 1899.

是以，這幅畫是在 1899 年她去印度與姐姐團聚的前一年畫的。

And it's there that she meets the man who will eventually become her husband five years later.

在那裡，她遇到了五年後最終成為她丈夫的男人。

But in that time, she has many, many offers of proposals.

但在這段時間裡，她收到了很多很多的求婚邀請。

And in the Tatler, it was recorded that she was revered in American society because she had the largest number of British proposals and American refusals.

據《Tatler》雜誌記載，她在美國社會備受推崇，因為她擁有最多的英國求婚和美國拒絕。

It's a good the most engaged lady in the world.

Well, I'm not sure if they were real proposals.

我不確定它們是否是真正的提案。

In the newspapers is a back and forth between Daisy and her mother where she refutes that she is engaged to these men despite the reports of it.

在報紙上，黛西和她的母親來來回回地說著，儘管有報道說她和這些男人訂婚了，但她還是否認了。

Mrs. Leiter authorizes the statement that her daughter Miss Daisy Leiter is not engaged.

萊特夫人授權聲明她的女兒黛西-萊特小姐沒有訂婚。

I love the papers reporting that she's not going to marry anybody.

我喜歡報紙報道她不會嫁給任何人。

It's a kind of fiercely independent statement to make at that time.

這在當時是一種激烈的獨立聲明。

But I think this is a portrait of a fiercely independent woman.

但我認為，這是一個獨立女性的寫照。

She does end up marrying Henry Howard, who was the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire in 1904, the year that her father died.

她最終嫁給了亨利-霍華德（Henry Howard），後者在 1904 年，也就是她父親去世的那一年，成為了薩福克郡和伯克郡的伯爵。

So she was actually part of a trend of American heiresses who marry British peers at the time who they desperately needed an injection of cash into their crumbling family homes across the country.

是以，她實際上是美國女繼承人中的一員，她們嫁給了當時急需為全國各地搖搖欲墜的家宅注入資金的英國同齡人。

And these new money American women provided that that cash in exchange for ancient family titles.

而這些美國新移民婦女提供了現金，以換取古老的家族頭銜。

So there's a lot of stereotyping at the time around these women.

是以，當時對這些女性有很多刻板印象。

But she does appear to have married for love.

但她似乎確實是為了愛情而結婚的。

She certainly had the pick of men at the time.

And she did settle down happily with Henry Howard, who was the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire.

她與亨利-霍華德（Henry Howard）幸福地生活在一起，後者是薩福克郡和伯克郡的伯爵。

What I like about her story is her power that she had.

我喜歡她的故事，更喜歡她所擁有的力量。

She had everybody at her feet and she just kept turning them down.

所有人都站在她的腳下，而她只是不斷地拒絕他們。

And she does appear to be a very powerful and vivacious young woman who had that choice in her life that maybe some other women weren't afforded.

她看起來確實是一個非常強大和活潑的年輕女性，在她的生活中，她有這樣的選擇，也許其他一些女性沒有得到這樣的選擇。

艾拉，一美元公主到底是什麼？

It was labelled by the British press on these women, these American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy.

英國媒體給這些嫁給英國貴族的美國女繼承人貼上了標籤。

I think there's quite a lot of controversy around it because it's a loaded term.

我認為圍繞這個詞有很多爭議，因為它是一個有內涵的詞。

It reduces them to the money that they brought into this country, the dollars that they brought over.

這使他們淪為他們帶到這個國家的錢，他們帶來的美元。

I guess the term dollar princess implies that they really want to marry British aristocrats too.

我猜美元公主這個詞意味著她們也很想嫁給英國貴族。

And once you start looking at that stereotype, it starts to crumble because lots of these women, they weren't necessarily significantly more wealthy than the British men that they were marrying.

一旦你開始審視這種刻板印象，它就會開始崩潰，因為這些女性中的很多人，並不一定比她們所嫁的英國男人富裕得多。

For some of them, it was their second or their third marriage.

對其中一些人來說，這是他們的第二次或第三次婚姻。

But there are situations like Daisy's where she is young, she is very wealthy and she is marrying a British peer.

但也有像黛西這樣的情況，她很年輕，很富有，而且要嫁給一位英國貴族。

And I think that's where the stereotype grows from.

我認為這就是陳規定型觀念的來源。

Daisy, she ended up opening her house, Charlton Park, as a nursing ward during the First World War.

黛西最終在第一次世界大戰期間將自己的住宅查爾頓公園（Charlton Park）作為護理病房開放。

So Ella, this article here is talking about this painting and it calls her the bewitching Miss Daisy at whose feet all London fell down when they beheld her portrait by Sergeant at the Royal Academy last year.

艾拉，這篇文章是關於這幅畫的，文章稱她是迷人的黛西小姐，去年在皇家學院欣賞她的肖像畫時，整個倫敦都拜倒在她腳下。

I guess that shows something of the power of the picture, doesn't it?

我想，這也說明了照片的力量，不是嗎？

But what we don't know is what she really felt about it.

但我們不知道她對此的真實感受。

But she certainly is looking very confident and very happy in the portrait itself.

但從肖像本身來看，她確實非常自信，也非常快樂。

And she did bring the portrait with her to Charlton Park when she married.

她結婚時確實把肖像帶到了查爾頓公園。

So the fact that it travelled from her family home to stay with her suggests that she was very happy with it.

是以，它能從她家來到她家，說明她對它非常滿意。

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見見這位女繼承人黛西-萊特（與露西-沃斯利合影） (Meet the heiress: Daisy Leiter (with Lucy Worsley))

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