Heiress...Type?

Question

Okay i know from example Paris Hilton a heiress for her family's hotel, but do you call someone (girl) a heiress if their parent own a clubs, real-estate, and for actors' kids production studios and etc..

thanks

Answer 1

Well, technically any girl who will inherit anything, even her father's good looks is an 'heiress', but the term really started in the early 1900s.

In those days, people were familiar with reading about royalty and entertainers, but newspapers began reporting on a new type of person ~ wealthy people whose families had made huge amounts of money from business and investment.

These families, like the Rockerfellers, Vanderbilts and Morgans didn't fit into any previous 'class'. They had as much money as most royal families, but they were not royal, they were seen in nightclubs and at society parties but they were not the old fashioned type of socialite.

The newspapers coined the term 'heiress' to describe the daughters of these wealthy people ~ young women with lots of family monet, used to the best of everything, and with no role in life except to have fun and make a good marriage.

The term 'heiress' continues to be used to mean much the same sort of girl today. She is not a princess, she has not done anything to earn her own fame, but she is well dressed, enjoys 'partying' and will happily pose for the photographers.

Only today, the heiresses are just a likely to be the daughters of film stars and rock musicians as of railroad czars and inventors!

Cheers :-)

Answer 2

Sure,, why not. It mustn´t be billons

Answer 3

what a strange question...i'm not sure

Answer 4

If a girl will inherit a lot of valuable things she is a heiress...