Her name's Nancy Walton Laurie. She's a Walmart heiress . I remember, on the first day, she walked in with her floor-length purple mink coat and said, I own a baseball team.
I'll take these two. She is a rich American heiress , who arrives in Paris right at the height of the new, sort of, art scene that's coming up. And she chases this guy for most of the show, but also commissions a ballet, which
to the Duchy of Burgundy-- so they acquired bits of France and the Low Countries up here. And he arranged for his son to marry the heiress of both Castile and Aragon. And so their son then inherited the crowns of a unified Spain.
These were 11 inches by 17 inches. And once again, an interested heiress stepped forward, wrote him a check for $50,000 to build this telescope which has her name. Her name was Catherine Wolfe Bruce.
Yeah, I created an animated show called Allen Gregory, with my two friends Jarrad Paul and Andy Mogel and it's about the world's most pretentious 7-year-old named Allen Gregory. And he has two dads and one of the dads is an heiress . And he loses the money and so Allen Gregory has to go to public school for the first time with normal kids and he finds this disgusting.
It's a marvel to behold. And his example is to compare Liliane Bettencourt, who's the heiress of the L'Oreal fortune, who has literally never worked a day of her life, and Bill Gates, who
They could have promoted from within the ranks. And because of the history of women at the observatory, there was a third heiress , Lydia Hinchman, who was a relative of Mariah Mitchell and who set up a program to pay for a young woman
And then, through a mastermind system of strategic political alliances, marrying into other royal families across Europe, being masterminded by the Habsburg King Maximilian I-- his own marriage was arranged to the heiress to the Duchy of Burgundy-- so they acquired bits of France and the Low Countries up here.
Her family were among the founders of Duke University. Her ancestors had owned the American Tobacco Company, a very, very, very wealthy heiress . And Doris Duke collected Southeast Asian art.
Clara Hughes-Johnson: But we do have some copies for folks. I'm thrilled. So, your novel, "Heiress Without A Cause--" Sara Ramsey: Yes. Clara Hughes-Johnson: has won a couple of pieces of acclaim.