According to The U.S. Sun, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was married to Joseph Medill Patterson Albright. He came from a family with ties to media publications including The Chicago Tribune, Newsday, and New York Daily. The couple tied the knot in 1959 and stayed together until 1982. Madeleine and Joseph shared three daughters: Anne, Alice, and Katie. However, it seems that her career played a role in their split.
According to The Guardian, getting involved in politics after her children were born and she had been married for some time impacted the Albrights’ union. “From my graduation day until the graduation of my last child, I had to deal with the age-old problem of balancing the demands of family with academic and professional interests,” she wrote in her autobiography “Madame Secretary.”
It all went downhill when her husband started an affair with a younger woman. He would eventually leave her for his mistress.
She said, “When I became secretary of state, I reali[z]ed that, though others might, I would never have climbed that high had I still been married.” She continued, “Yet I am deeply saddened to have been divorced. I know that, at the time, I would have given up any thought of a career if it would have made Joe change his mind.”
