“The girls’ mothers are coming over to London in order to effectively sell their girls into the aristocracy,” Katherine Jakeways, the series’s creator, said in a video interview from her London home.
“And the aristocracy are welcoming them with open arms because they’ve got roofs to mend.”Added Beth Willis, an executive producer, from her home in Scotland: “How lonely that would be for so many of them.
In America they might speak up a bit more at the dining table.
In “The Buccaneers,” Mabel (Josie Totah) is torn between a marriage of convenience, to a man, and a romance of passion, with her friend Conchita’s new sister-in-law (Mia Threapleton).
(In a refreshing twist, the most avid gold diggers in both series are men.)
Persons:
” Katherine Jakeways, they’ve, Beth Willis, Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duke of Marlborough, ”, Hannah Greig, ’, ” Mabel, Josie Totah, Conchita’s, Mia Threapleton, Oscar Van Rhijn, Blake Ritson, John Adams, Gladys, Taissa
Organizations:
Vanderbilt, The Buccaneers, ‘ The Buccaneers
Locations:
London, Scotland, America, England, ‘ The, The