We Already Tried the "Golden Age"
The truth behind the glamour
It’s probably a good thing Caroline Astor died in 1908. It spared her the anguish of knowing that just a few years later, her only son would perish as the supposedly unsinkable Titanic groaned to its watery grave.
Before her death, Caroline’s life was one of extraordinary privilege. She was born a Schermerhorn, one of the early Dutch families …