
Who Was Madeleine Astor? The Gilded Beginnings and Harrowing Survival of the Titanic’s Most Famous Widow
In 1911, a teenaged socialite named Madeleine Talmage Force rose from relative obscurity to land one of the greatest eligible bachelors of her era: a newly divorced Colonel John Jacob Astor IV, who was widely regarded as one of the richest men in the world …