Chapter 1173: Chapter 401: The Old Guard of the West
The elite club Walker spoke of can actually be called the 400 Elite Club!
This is a top-tier club that existed in the previous century, founded by Walker’s grandmother.
At the ti, the Astor Family was still the most elite family in the United States, and the 400 Elite Club founded by Walker’s grandmother naturally beca the top social circle in Arica at the ti.
Later generations even compiled such a story that the Astor Family looked down on the newly risen Vanderbilt Family and refused to allow the Vanderbilt Family to join their 400 Elite Club.
So, to counter the Astor Family’s 400 Elite Club, the Vanderbilt Family organized a ball, a luxurious ball, inviting all the noble families in New York City, and the Vanderbilt Family’s princess invited the Astor Family’s princess, who was Walker’s aunt.
But before the ball officially began, the Vanderbilt Family stood up Walker’s aunt, saying that the parents of both sides did not know each other yet, and thus they were unable to invite Walker’s aunt.
According to the social etiquette of that era, the Vanderbilt couple should have known the Astor couple, only then could Walker’s aunt attend the Vanderbilt Family’s ball.
This situation made Walker’s aunt heartbroken, and Walker’s grandmother, unable to bear her daughter’s sadness, opened up the 400 Elite Club to the Vanderbilt Family.
Later generations of TV series “The Gilded Age” even recreated this scene.
This is why later generations said such a thing had happened, but in reality, it never occurred; it was just because “The Gilded Age” had such a plot that led future generations to imagine this story.
However, there is one thing that is true: although the Astor Family and the Vanderbilt Family had many business collaborations at the ti, the Astor Family indeed looked down on the Vanderbilt Family.
Because the Astor Family was a traditional European noble immigrant family, while the Vanderbilt Family were early New York poor.
To the Astor Family and the European nobility behind the Astor Family, the Vanderbilt Family was just a nouveau riche, “new money.” If the Astor Family dared to let the Vanderbilt Family into the 400 Elite Club, it would likely lose its influence in the 400 Elite Club.
How could this be changed just because of a daughter!
“The people from the elite club want to co?”
Donnie asked Walker.
Walker nodded and said, “That’s right, it’s this group of people. In fact, they’ve already lost their forr glory, but they still cling to their noble bloodline, living in the past century!”
The forr 400 Elite Club indeed had great influence in New York, with the Roosevelt Family and the Taft Family once being mbers of the 400 Elite Club.
However, it is evident that as more and more new generation of Arican aristocrats rise, the mbers of the forr 400 Elite Club have been gradually losing their influence.
“What do you think?” Donnie asked Walker.
This was Walker’s resource, and Donnie was indifferent to these people, so whether to invite them to the Atlantic City’s Racing Club was up to Walker.
Walker thought for a mont and said, “Let them co. Although their influence has waned considerably, they still have influence, and many of these people were friends of my grandmother, having intricate ties to the Astor Family. I don’t want to have any bad blood with them.”
Donnie nodded and said, “Okay, put together a list and give it to Casim Grant, and at that ti, let him invite them to visit in the na of the Atlantic City Racing Club!”
Walker laughed and said, “Sure, you don’t know these old guys, they seem so high and mighty in daily life, adhering to a pile of old rules, claiming their bloodline is noble, but now hearing that George V is coming, they’ve imdiately changed their expressions, all clamoring that they should personally receive George V.”
Tang Fei said, “It’s impossible for them to receive George V, being able to get them to attend is good enough!”
Donnie now couldn’t care less about these old nobles; their era of glory was long gone.
After the two of them finished discussing this matter, Donnie didn’t pay any more attention to it.
When June arrived, the ship carrying George V was about to arrive in Atlantic City.
It was precisely because George V was about to arrive that Atlantic City began to beco more lively.
At this ti on the streets of Atlantic City, it was common to see elderly n wearing top hats, tailcoats, vests, and pocket watches, who used to be European nobles… So didn’t even hold a Viscount title, possibly having had one in their family history, but they claid to be nobles.
Yes, this is what is ant by having noble blood.
But if you think about it carefully, although the United States is known as an immigrant country and its economy rose during this period, when these people ca, the United States was not as it is now.
In the eyes of Europeans at that ti, the United States was backward, barbaric; how could true nobility possibly abandon their luxurious lives in Europe to immigrate to the United States?
The more this is the case, the more these Arican nobles wanted to flaunt their noble bloodline.
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