The Gilded Age Heiress Who Became an Empress: Lady Curzon’s Forgotten Story

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Mary Curzon, the forgotten Gilded Age heiress who became Vicereine of India — and paid the price for power. Before she was Lady Curzon, she was Mary Leiter — an American heiress who married into the British Empire and became its unofficial empress. She conquered salons in Washington, dazzled London