Upon boarding the Titanic, newlywed Madeleine Astor was in the midst of a scandal ... Although she gave birth to a healthy baby later that summer, the public’s interest in her after the tragedy ...

The Second Mrs. Astor” by Shana Abe is the story of Madeleine Force, age eighteen ... Kitty now follows her as much as she follows Jack, devoted to the baby. They sail home on the Titanic, and as we ...

Not long before the famed ocean-liner Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic after plowing into an iceberg on a cold, dark night in 1912, the richest first-class passenger aboard — a longtime Palm ...

Months before his death, 47-year-old real estate developer John Jacob Astor IV scandalized New York high society by marrying ...