THE GLORIOUS LOCATIONS

Much of the filming took place in Newport, Rhode Island, where the titans of

The Gilded Age built their palaces. One of the finest is The Breakers, a 70room mansion inspired by the 16th-Century palaces of Genoa and Turin, built by Cornelius Vanderbilt. ‘The locations are extraordinary,’ says

Blake Ritson. ‘We shot in mansions where you can still feel and taste the unimaginable fortunes that were being accrued.’

New York City looks very different now, but the city of Troy, 210km away, retains its 19th-Century architecture – so much so, that one of its squares (above right) was transformed into 1880s New York for several scenes.

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