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May 4, 2022 · Madeleine Astor: How the Widow of John Jacob Astor VI Survived the Titanic. May 4, 2022 Elisabeth Edwards. Madeleine Astor was just 19 years old when she boarded the RMS Titanic on April 10, 1912, with her husband, American millionaire John Jacob Astor IV. Astor was five months pregnant at the time and was excited to return home to New York ...
Apr 25, 2022 · 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,...
Sep 1, 1996 · Madeleine Talmage Astor Mrs John Jacob Astor (Madeleine Force), 18, was the wife of millionaire John Jacob Astor , they had been on an extended honeymoon in Egypt and Paris and, in the spring of 1912, decided to return to America as First Class passengers on board the brand new Titanic .
Dec 24, 2019 · Madeleine Astor was a socialite and the wife of millionaire John Jacob Astor. She is remembered for being a survivor of the infamous sinking of the RMS Titanic. Madeleine had married Colonel Astor in 1911, and had taken the first part of their honeymoon on the Olympic, a sister ship of the Titanic.
Nov 28, 2013 · Nov. 28, 2013. LONDON — When the millionaire John Jacob Astor IV helped his wife, the 18-year-old socialite Madeleine Talmage Force, onto a lifeboat as the Titanic began to sink on April 14,...
Madeleine Talmage Astor, the pregnant 18 year old wife of John Jacob Astor, the richest passenger aboard Titanic, was a first class passenger travelling home from a winter holiday with her newlywed husband. Along with three of their servants, the Astor’s boarded Titanic on 10th April at Cherbourg. They occupied the luxurious C Deck cabins, C62-64.
2 days ago · Madeleine Astor survived, and her husband’s body was recovered on 22 April not far from the sinking. The watch was passed by Astor’s son Vincent to the son of his father’s executive ...
