Madeleine Astor was the queen of New York’s high society when she boarded the Titanic with her new husband, John Jacob Astor IV. Tragically, the iceberg that sank the Titanic also sank her marriage.

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 ...