When Harry Met Rose: Mr Selfridge and the Search for Love

Harry Selfridge is not in the market for love. Until he meets Rose Buckingham …

Smart and successful, a society beauty, Rose knocks the charismatic Harry sideways. For the first time in his life he is head over heels – and Rose, it seems, feels the same. Theirs is a love story with all the makings of a fairy tale, yet snobbish elements of Chicago’s well-to-do set are sneering, asking how a self-made man from a poor background can expect to win the heart of a debutante from one of the city’s wealthiest families. Harry, accustomed to getting what he wants no matter what, is undeterred. Then, on the eve of Rose’s birthday, at a Fourth of July ball attended by all of Chicago society, and with everything going their way, disaster strikes.

It seems the couple may not be on course for their happy ending, after all.