Jane, Elizabeth & Julia

Three beautiful, kind, articulate and intelligent women helped each other find the man of their dreams, choosing to marry for love above all else. They chose men without titles at a time when their beauty, wealth and accomplishments could easily have attracted titled suitors and members of the aristocracy. In the end, each of their husbands ultimately ascended to aristocratic titles of their own, achieving high status in society, including accomplishments on the battlefield, in agriculture, animal husbandry and parliament. At a time when lucrative dowries were seen as more important, John Howard, James Dutton and Thomas Coke chose to follow their hearts instead, marrying for love, even risking disinheritance, in order to marry the women they loved. Follow the descendants of these three marriages over a period of more than two hundred years.