Jackie, Janet & Lee

by J. Randy Taraborrelli

Lee at Harper’s Bazaar and lunch with Jackie and Janet:

  Interviews: Deena Atkins-Manzel, August 5, 2016, September 8, 2016, November 1, 2016; Anna DeWitt, September 1, 2016, November 5, 2016, January 2, 2017.

  Articles: “Lee Radziwill: In Search of Herself” by Charlotte Curtis, McCall’s, January 1975; “Lee” by Andy Warhol, Interview, March 1975.

  Volumes: The Kents by Audrey Whiting; Edward VIII by Frances Donaldson.

  Photographic Evidence: I referred to photographs taken by Deena Atkins-Manzel for descriptions of the ladies’ wardrobes on the day of Janet’s visit to Harper’s.

  Lee’s early days with Michael Canfield and subsequent marriage:

  Interviews: Terrance Landow, May 3, 2016, June 17, 2016, October 14, 2016; Jamie Auchincloss; Blair Fuller (for a profile on Eunice Kennedy for Redbook in 2002); Deena Atkins-Manzel; Chauncey G. Parker III, October 5, 2005; Thomas Guinzburg, March 6, 2005; Adora Rule, April 1, 2016, May 1, 2016.

  Volumes: In Her Sister’s Shadow by Diana DuBois; Up & Down & Around: A Publisher Recollects the Time of His Life by Cass Canfield; The Windsor Story by J. Bryan and Charles Murphy; White Mischief by James Fox; King Edward VIII by Philip Ziegler; The Reluctant King by Sarah Bradford.

  Articles: “Revealed: The Secret Illegitimate Brother of the Queen’s Cousin Who Never Got Over the Pain of Not Knowing His Real Parents,” by Christopher Wilson, Daily Mail, July 2013; “Scandal of Forgotten Prince George…” by Adrian Lee, Express, July 15, 2013; “The Complicated Sisterhood of Jackie Kennedy and Lee Radziwill” by Sam Kashner, Vanity Fair, April 26, 2016; “War of the Poses” by Michael Gross, New York, April 27, 1992.

  Oral History: Cass Canfield/Columbia University.

  Jackie’s and Lee’s childhoods:

  Interviews: Lavinia Jennings, July 8, 2016, August 5, 2016; Oatsie Charles; Hugh “Yusha” Auchincloss, October 12, 1998; Nini Auchincloss Strait, October 11, 1998.

  Articles: “First Lady Was a First-Class Rider Here” (no byline), East Hampton Star, November 17, 1960; “How The Remarkable Auchincloss Family Shaped the Jacqueline Kennedy Style” by Stephen Birmingham, Ladies’ Home Journal, March 1967; “Lee Radziwill: Girls Who Have Everything Aren’t Supposed to Do Anything,” by Jane Howard, Life, July 14, 1967; “Daddy Didn’t Want His Little Girl to Be a Kennedy,” by Harriman Janus, Photoplay, May 1969; “Opening Chapters: Enchanting Memories and Photos of Her Early Life with Jackie” by Lee Radziwill, Ladies’ Home Journal, January 1973; “And Starring Lee Bouvier! A Nonfiction Television Play” by Gloria Steinem, McCall’s, February 1968; “Jackie Kennedy’s Girlhood Home for Sale,” by Jack Friedlander, The Connection (McLean, Va.), November 6, 1995; “The Public and Private Lee” by Henry Ehrlich, Look, January 23, 1968; “Revealed: The Secret Illegitimate Brother of the Queen’s Cousin Who Never Got Over the Pain of Not Knowing His Real Parents,” by Christopher Wilson, Daily Mail, July 2013; “Scandal of Forgotten Prince George…” by Adrian Lee, Express, July 15, 2013; “The Complicated Sisterhood of Jackie Kennedy and Lee Radziwill” by Sam Kashner, Vanity Fair, April 26, 2016; “Lee Radziwill’s Search for Herself,” by John J. Miller, The Column, December 17, 1972; “Stay Tuned for the Princess,” by Terry Coleman, New York Post, June 24, 1967.

  Volumes: One Special Summer by Lee Bouvier and Jacqueline Bouvier; Black Jack Bouvier: The Life and Times of Jackie O’s Father by Kathleen Bouvier; To Jack with Love; Black Jack Bouvier: A Remembrance by Kathleen Bouvier; Janet & Jackie by Jan Pottker; A Woman Named Jackie by C. David Heymann; Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: A Life by Donald Spoto; Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy by Mary Van Rensselaer; Palimpsest by Gore Vidal; The Bouviers by John Davis; The Auchincloss Family by Joanna Russell Auchincloss and Caroline Auchincloss; Our Forebears by John Vernou Bouvier, Jr. (privately printed).

  Articles: “James T. Lee,” National Cyclopedia of American Biography, vol. 54; “Northern Irish Ancestry of Rose Anna Cox Fitzgerald, Great-Grandmother of a President” by R. Andrew Pierce, Nexus: The Magazine of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, October/November 1994.

  Private Papers: “Growing Up with Jackie: My Memories 1941–1953” by Hugh D. Auchincloss, JFK Library; Auchincloss Family Tree, Joanna Russell Auchincloss and Caroline Auchincloss Fowler, Salem (Massachusetts) Library, 1957; courtesy of Hugh D. Auchincloss III: Auchincloss family Bible, family records from 1730 to the present time inscribed therein, Auchincloss genealogy wall chart, and maps of Hammersmith Farm and the Castle.

  Speeches: “Mud Wrestling with History: Snapshots of My Life as a Brother-in-Law to John F. Kennedy” by James Auchincloss.

  Oral History: Janet Auchincloss/ JFK Library.

  Jackie’s relationship with John Husted:

  Interviews: John Husted, April 1, 2008; Jamie Auchincloss; Gore Vidal, June 2, 1998, November 7, 1999, May 2, 2008, May 3, 2008; Trina Lloyd, September 4, 2016, October 5, 2016.

  Volumes: A Woman Named Jackie by C. David Heymann; Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: A Life by Donald Spoto.

  Background of Jack Bouvier:

  Interviews: Barry Davis, October 15, 2016; Danine Barber, November 11, 2016, November 12, 2016; Oatsie Charles; John Davis, September 13, 1998, September 14, 1998, September 15, 1998.

  Volumes: Black Jack Bouvier: The Life and Times of Jackie O’s Father by Kathleen Bouvier; To Jack with Love; Black Jack Bouvier: A Remembrance by Kathleen Bouvier; Janet & Jackie by Jan Pottker; A Woman Named Jackie by C. David Heymann; Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis by Donald Spoto; Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy by Mary Van Rensselaer; Palimpsest by Gore Vidal; The Bouviers by John Davis; The Auchincloss Family by Joanna Russell Auchincloss and Caroline Auchincloss; Our Forebears by John Vernou Bouvier, Jr. (privately printed).

  Article: “Daddy Didn’t Want His Little Girl to Be a Kennedy” by Harriman Janus, Photoplay, May 1969.

  Jackie’s courtship with Jack Kennedy:

  Interviews: John Davis; Jamie Auchincloss; Senator George Smathers, October 5, 1998, December 12, 1998.

  Articles: “An Exclusive Chat with Jackie Kennedy” by Joan Braden, Saturday Evening Post, May 12, 1962.

  Volumes: The Good Son by Christopher Andersen; An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963 by Robert Dallek; Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy; JFK: Reckless Youth by Nigel Hamilton; In Her Sister’s Shadow by Diana DuBois; Reporter by Maxine Cheshire; A Woman Named Jackie by C. David Heymann; Times to Remember by Rose Kennedy.

  Video: “Hugh [Yusha] Auchincloss: Remembering Jackie O,” NBC 10/WJAR, November 20, 2013.

  Oral Histories: Janet Auchincloss/JFK Library (Janet and Jackie’s conversation about JFK, [“You’re too available to him.”] and her suggestion that Jackie go to London to attend the coronation of Queen Elizabeth and other conversations they had about JFK are recalled in detail by Janet); Charles Bartlett/JFK Library; Cardinal Richard Cushing, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston/JFK Library; Paul B. Fay Jr./JFK Library; Dun Gifford/RFK Oral History Project; Roswell Gilpatric/JFK Library; Louella Hennessey/JFK Library; Robert Francis Kennedy/JFK Library.

  Correspondence: Jacqueline Bouvier to Rev. Joseph Leonard, July 1952, writing of JFK: “He’s like my father in a way—loves the chase and is bored with the conquest—and once married, needs proof he’s still attractive, so flirts with other women and resents you. I saw how that nearly killed Mummy.”

  Janet’s difficult times after Jack Bouvier and courtship with and marriage to Hugh Auchincloss:

  Interviews: Trina Lloyd, June 18, 2016; Jamie Auchincloss; John Davis; Lavinia Jennings; Yusha Auchincloss; Nina Auchincloss Strait; Gore Vidal, April 8, 1998, May 1, 2010.

  Volumes: Black Jack Bouvier: The Life and Times of Jackie O’s Father by Kathleen Bouvier; To Jack with Love: Black Jack Bouvier: A Remembrance by Kathleen Bouvier; Janet & Jackie by Jan Pottker; Palimpsest by Gore Vidal; America’s Secret Aristocracy by Stephen Birmingham; Top Drawer: American High Society from the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties by Mary Cable; Louis Auchincloss: A Writer’s Life by Carol Gelderman; F
ifth Avenue: The Best Address by Jerry Patterson; Smithsonian Stories: Chronicle of a Golden Age 1964–1984 by Wilton S. Dillon.

  Articles: “The Garden of Hammersmith Farm” by Rose Machado, Country Life in America, June 1916; “Hugh Auchincloss Dies,” New York Times, April 12, 1913; “Bouvier Estate Goes to Widow,” New York Times, January 19, 1926; “James T. Lee Buys East 48th St. Site,” New York Times, January 22, 1928; “Dr. James Lee Dies at 75,” New York Herald Tribune, May 15, 1928; “Mrs. Auchincloss Hit by Propeller,” Washington Evening Star, July 16, 1929; “Hugh Auchincloss Marries in Capital,” New York Times, May 8, 1931; “Mrs. H. D. Auchincloss Asks for Reno Divorce,” New York Times, May 24, 1932; “Newport: There She Sits,” by Cleveland Amory, Harper’s, February 1948; “Mrs. Janet Bouvier Weds Liet. Hugh Auchincloss,” East Hampton Star, June 24, 1942; “Hugh D. Auchincloss Weds Janet Bouvier at Virginia Estate,” Newport Daily News, June 23, 1942; “How the Remarkable Auchincloss Family Shaped the Jacqueline Kennedy Style” by Stephen Birmingham, Ladies’ Home Journal, March 1967; “Lee Radziwill: Girls Who Have Everything Aren’t Supposed to Do Anything” by Jane Howard, Life, July 14, 1967; “Opening Chapters: Enchanting Memories and Photos of Her Early Life with Jackie” by Lee Radziwill, Ladies’ Home Journal, January 1973; “And Starring Lee Bouvier! A Nonfiction Television Play” by Gloria Steinem, McCall’s, February 1968; “The Public and Private Lee” by Henry Ehrlich, Look, January 23, 1968; “Vanished Opulence,” by Suzanna Andrews, Vanity Fair, January 2001; “Quality Developer with a Legacy” by Christopher Gay, New York Times, March 12, 1995; “Lee Radziwill: In Search of Herself” by Charlotte Curtis, McCall’s, January 1975; “Lee” by Andy Warhol, Interview, March, 1975; “Lee Radziwill’s Search for Herself” by John J. Miller, The Column, December 17, 1972.

  Private Papers: “Growing Up with Jackie: My Memories 1941–1953 (original unedited manuscript) by Hugh D. Auchincloss, JFK Library; “I Remember … Reminiscences of Hammersmith Farm” by Esther Auchincloss Blitz, Newport History (Newport Historical Society), spring 1994; “Original Manuscript of Esther Auchincloss Blitz: My Life,” Newport Historical Society; “Hammersmith Farm” by John T. Hopf, Camelot Gardens, Inc., 1979; “In Living Memory: A Chronicle of Newport, Rhode Island, 1888–1988,” Newport Savings and Loan Association, 1988;

  Video: Lee Radziwill’s interview with Sofia Coppola for T magazine, February 7, 2013 (“I was left alone at this enormous house…”); Hammersmith Farm Tour Video, Camelot Gardens, Inc., 1979.

  Correspondence: Emma Jennings Auchincloss to Mrs. James T. Lee, July 3, 1942.

  Additionally: Marriage certificate, New York City, of Thomas Merritt and Maria Curry, June 6, 1875; Newark, New Jersey, census: 1860, 1870, 1880; St. Patrick Pro-Cathedral, Newark, New Jersey, baptismal records for James Lee, born December 23, 1852; baptism, January 1, 1853.

  Janet’s unconventional pregnancy:

  Because of the sensitive nature of this chapter, my interviewed sources asked to remain anonymous.

  Volume: Palimpsest by Gore Vidal

  Additionally: Birth certificate of James Lee Auchincloss, March 4, 1947, The Doctors Hospital, Inc; Invitation to Jackie’s debutante party and Jamie’s christening: “Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, Miss Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, Master James Lee Auchincloss, At Home on Friday, the first of August from five until seven o’clock, Hammersmith Farm, Newport, Rhode Island.”

  Part Two: A Mother’s Duty

  Jackie’s marriage to JFK and Janet’s involvement:

  Interviews: Robert Westover, May 2, 2016; Jamie Auchincloss; Janine Rule; Adora Rule.

  Volumes: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis by Barbara Leaming; America’s Queen by Sarah Bradford (Lee’s quotes about her mother’s intrusion in the marriage are culled from this book); Janet & Jackie by Jan Pottker; Jackie Oh! by Kitty Kelley; Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: A Life by Donald Spoto.

  Speech: “Mud Wrestling with History: Snapshots of My Life as a Brother-in-Law to John F. Kennedy” by James Lee Auchincloss.

  Lee’s marriage to and divorce from Michael Canfield:

  Interviews: Lois Aldrech, August 5, 2016, August 6, 2016; Terrance and Betty Landow, September 2, 2016, September 8, 2016, October 15, 2016, and, also, email exchanges in November 2016 clarifying details; Jamie Auchincloss; Eileen Gillespie Slocum, May 5, 1998, June 6, 1998; Chauncey Parker III, May 6, 2008; Blair Fuller; Nini Auchincloss Strait; Tom Guinzburg.

  Articles: “Miss Bouvier Is Wed Here,” Washington Evening Star, April 19, 1953; “Miss Caroline L. Bouvier Married to M. Canfield,” East Hampton Star, April 23, 1953; “Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis—A Tribute,” People, various writers, Summer 1994; “Jackie’s Childhood Friend Tells All” by Judy Stone, Movie Mirror, July 1968; “Revealed: The Secret Illegitimate Brother of the Queen’s Cousin Who Never Got Over the Pain of Not Knowing His Real Parents” by Christopher Wilson, Daily Mail, July 2013; “Scandal of Forgotten Prince George…” by Adrian Lee, Express, July 15, 2013; “The Complicated Sisterhood of Jackie Kennedy and Lee Radziwill” by Sam Kashner, Vanity Fair, April 26, 2016; “Lee Radziwill’s Search for Herself” by John J. Miller, The Column, December 17, 1972.

  Volumes: In Her Sister’s Shadow by Diana DuBois. (Lee’s affair with David Somerset was first written about in this book.); Palimpsest by Gore Vidal; Up & Down & Around: A Publisher Recollects the Time of His Life by Cass Canfield.

  Oral History: Alastair Granville Forbes/JFK Library (“Well, Michael, I think the best thing for you is to get her some real money.”); Cass Canfield/Columbia University.

  Jackie’s early marriage to JFK:

  Interviews: Julian Balridge, October 11, 2016, December 10, 2016; Jamie Auchincloss; Senator George Smathers; Eileen Gillespie Slocum.

  Volumes: The Other Mrs. Kennedy by Jess Oppenheimer; The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw; Sins of the Father by Ronald Kessler; The Founding Father: The Story of Joseph P. Kennedy by Richard Whalen and Joan Whalen; The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy by Jean Kennedy Smith; Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John Kennedy by Caroline Kennedy and Michael Beschloss; My Life with Jacqueline Kennedy by Mary Barelli Gallagher; Those Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie by Christopher Andersen; Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years by Barbara Leaming; Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy by Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer; Hostage to Fortune by Amanda Smith; Jackie After Jack by Christopher Andersen; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Lester David.

  Articles: “Senator Kennedy Takes Wife Amid Pomp of Newport,” Boston Globe, September 12, 1953; “Jack Kennedy: The Senate’s Gay Young Bachelor,” Saturday Evening Post, June 18, 1953; “Jacqueline Bouvier, Senator Kennedy to Wed,” East Hampton Star, July 16, 1953; “Kennedy-Bouvier License Issued,” Newport Daily News, September 4, 1953; “Kennedy-Bouvier Nuptials Held at St. Mary’s Church Before 700 Invited Guests,” Newport Daily News, September 12, 1953; “Kennedy-Bouvier Rites Colorful,” Danbury News-Times, September 14, 1953, “Traffic Curbs Set for Kennedy-Bouvier Wedding,” Newport Daily News, September 11, 1953; “Wedding Principals Enter St. Mary’s Church This Morning,” Newport Daily News, September 12, 1953; “What Jackie Kennedy Has Learned from Her Mother,” Good Housekeeping, October 15, 1962; “Lee Radziwill: In Search of Herself” by Charlotte Curtis, McCall’s, January 1975; “An Exclusive Chat with Jackie Kennedy” by Joan Braden, Saturday Evening Post, May 12, 1962.

  Correspondence: Rose Kennedy to Janet Auchincloss, September 1953. Maud Shaw to Janet Auchincloss, December 28, 1960; Rose Kennedy to Janet Auchincloss, North Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach Florida, undated; .Jackie to Jamie, undated, Christmas note with money gift: “I hope you can turn this into a Christmas present for yourself—with all love, Jackie.”

  Additionally: Social Files/Senator’s Wedding/JFK Library: including letters to Janet Auchincloss from John F. Kennedy (July 28, 1953) and Evelyn Lincoln (August 7, 1953, and September 3, 1953); “Suggested Lists for Jack’s Wedding,�
� for “Mrs. Auchincloss and Bobby,” August 4, 1953.

  Oral Histories: Janet Auchincloss/JFK Library; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (interview conducted by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, 1974, as well as the newly released oral histories for the JFK Library in 2011); Charles L. Bartlett/JFK Library; Edward Berube/JFK Library; Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy/Herbert Hoover Library Foundation; Laura Bergquist Kriebel/RFK Oral History Project; Frank Mankiewicz/RFK Oral History Project; Esther Newberg/RFK Oral History Project; Joan Braden/JFK Library; Maud Shaw/JFK Library; Nancy Tuckerman/JFK Library; Kenneth O’Donnell/Lyndon Baines Johnson Library; Pierre Salinger/RFK Oral History Project; George Smathers /U.S. Senate Historical Office; Charles Spalding/JFK Library.

  History of Prince Stanisław Albrecht “Stas” Radziwiłł:

  Interviews: Jan Stanislaw Albrycht Radziwill, September 29, 2016; Terrance Landow, Betty Landow; Chauncey Parker III; Blair Fuller; Tom Guinzburg.

  Note: By now it is accepted wisdom that Lee was married to Michael Canfield when she began her affair with Stas Radziwill, also confirmed by his son John.

  Articles: “Princess Lee Radziwill” by Peter Evans, Cosmopolitan, March 1968; “Country House in Flower” by Polly Devlin, Vogue, July 1971; “Lee Radziwill” by Leslie Field, Daily Mail, November 16, 1971.

  Volumes: The Radziwills: The Social History of a Great European Family by Tadeusz Nowakowski; Mrs. Kennedy by Barbara Leaming; America’s Queen by Sarah Bradford; Jackie Oh! by Kitty Kelley; Palimpsest by Gore Vidal; Away from the White House by Lawrence L. Knudson; The Property Boom by Oliver Marriot.

  Jack Bouvier’s death:

  Interview: Jamie Auchincloss.

  Volumes: Black Jack Bouvier: The Life and Times of Jackie O’s Father by Kathleen Bouvier; To Jack with Love; Black Jack Bouvier: A Remembrance by Kathleen Bouvier; Janet & Jackie by Jan Pottker; A Woman Named Jackie by C. David Heymann.

  Articles: “John Bouvier 3rd, 66, Dies,” New York Times, August 4, 1957; “John V. Bouvier 3rd,” obituary, East Hampton Star, August 8, 1957; “Lee” by Andy Warhol, Interview, March, 1975.