THE TRAGIC TALE OF MADELEINE ASTOR, TITANIC’S SURVIVOR AND AMERICA’S FAMOUS WIDOW
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At 18, Madeleine Force Astor was already a figure of immense public fascination. Newly married and pregnant, she boarded the RMS Titanic with her husband, John Jacob Astor IV, one of America’s wealthiest men. Her journey on the ill-fated ship would soon thrust her into the limelight as the most famous widow in America.