Georgette Alexandra Madill was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1896. She was the daughter of George Madill, a distinguished Irish jurist, and Elisabeth Walton McMillan, both Pennsylvanians married in 1895. After the death of her father in 1901, her mother remarried in 1904 with Edward Scott Robert. However, in 1911, her mother was widowed for the second time.
Georgette and her mother Elisabeth, hoping to ease their sorrows, decided to go on vacation to Europe. For their return to America, they boarded the Titanic at Southampton bound for Missouri. Also traveling with them were their mother's maid, Emilie Kreuchen, and Georgette's maternal cousin, Elisabeth Walton Allen. On the night of April 14, Titanic had hit and iceberg and started to sink. Georgette, her mother, her maid, and her cousin were rescued in lifeboat 2.
After the Titanic disaster, Georgette traveled extensively as part of her active work for the Red Cross; in 1917 she traveled to Japan and China and in 1919 he made a trip to Siberia. During peacetime in the early 1920s, she traveled across Europe visiting Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Greece, and Great Britain. Georgette's 1917 passport describes her as a girl with blonde hair, hazel eyes, a fair complexion, and medium features.
It seems the events did not perturb Georgette from travelling. In later years, she remained close to her mother and continued to travel across the Atlantic with her, she also did so extensively as part of her work for the Red Cross. In the years that followed she had trips to Japan, China and Serbia and in the 1920s she travelled across Europe.
Despite living in London, she remained close to her mother, frequently crossing the Atlantic. She married Anthony Bagshawe Mattei, a Marquess of Maltese heritage, in London in 1931. The couple remained childless and were registered as resident in London all the way through to the 1960s.
Georgette reportedly became grossly overweight in her later years and died in February 1977. Her widower died in 1992. They are together in eternal rest in Clevedon, North Somerset, England.
She and her husband had no children and made their home in the wealthy parts of London; in Chelsea and Westminster.
According to some reports, Georgette was severely overweight in her later years and died in 1974 at the age of 77. Her husband died on September 26, 1992.