The Astors – America's "Royal" Families
History Tea Time
Lindsay Holiday
4.5 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 1:02.8 | Hello and welcome to history tea time. I'm Lindsay Holiday and I'm spilling the tea on history. |
| 1:13.6 | America's royal families. The Asters Chances are you've heard the name of this prominent and obscenely wealthy dynasty of Gilded Age America. |
| 1:21.6 | You may have been to a hotel, library, subway station, or town that bears their name. Vaguely remember that one of them |
| 1:29.9 | went down with the Titanic, or recall seeing their modern descendants in the U.S. or U.K. splashed on |
| 1:36.4 | the tabloids. But who were these captains of industry and queens of society? Today, we'll |
| 1:43.1 | sort out the Astor family tree, put faces to the famous names, |
| 1:47.9 | and unearth their scandals. We'll explore how they got their incredible wealth, what they did with it, |
| 1:54.8 | and what their descendants are up to today. The Astor family traced their roots back to Jovan and Greta Asdor, who left northern |
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