Walker, Lady Margaret
Walsh, John
Walters, Barbara
Walton, William
Ward, John
Warhol, Andy
Warnecke, Carl Ingomar
Warnecke, Fred
Warnecke, John Carl “Jack”
Jackie’s relationship with
RFK’s relationship with
Warnecke, John, Jr.
Warnecke, Margo
Warnecke, Roger
Warren, Whitney
Washington, George
Washington Post
Washington Times
Washington Times-Herald, Jackie’s column at
Weckert, Christine
Wells, Tom
Wentworth, Bob
Westminister Roman Catholic Cathedral, London
Westover, Robert
Whitehouse, Mary
Why England Slept (Kennedy)
the Windmill, Hammersmith Farm
World Affairs Council
World War I
World War II
Wrightman, Charles
Zimny, Edwin J.
ALSO BY J. RANDY TARABORRELLI
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue
Part One: The Beginning
“My Lee”
About Michael
Very Different Sisters
A Sad Kind of Love
John Husted
Lee and Michael Marry
“Black Jack”
Jack Kennedy
Janet’s Tough Times
Hugh Auchincloss
An Unconventional Pregnancy
Part Two: A Mother’s Duty
What Mummy Did
“To Your Good Times”
Unconscionable
Differing Views About Infidelity
Prince Stanislaw Radziwill
Jack Bouvier—R.I.P.
Banished
Part Three: Heady Times
Lee Marries Her Prince
Campaign Trail
“The Bitter and the Sweet”
Betrayal
Part Four: The White House Years
Inauguration
Jackie in the White House
Janet’s Appointment by the First Lady
Greeks Bearing Gifts
“Enough of Her!”
The President and His Mother-in-Law
A New Love for Jackie?
Part Five: Trouble Brewing
Lee’s Annulment
“You Will Always Come First”
Standing In for Jackie
A Sacrifice for Jackie
Baby Patrick
“Cut to the Bone”
JFK’S “Two Janets”
Lee’s Conflict
Anniversary at Hammersmith
Lee’s Offer to Jackie
Sisters in Greece
Part Six: The Assassination
11/22/63
Secret Service—High Alert
“A Silly Little Communist”
“Let This Cup Pass…”
“Good Night, My Darling Jacks”
Onassis in Washington
“Nothing But Black”
Part Seven: Recovery
Dead Heads
All Her Courage
“Make Straight Paths for Your Feet”
Jackie’s Torment
Janet’s Advice
What to Do About Jackie?
Jackie’s Little Cemetery
“Money Is Power”
Part Eight: Transition
When Was Lee at Her Happiest?
Actress
Jackie’s Hawaii Love
Janet Jr.’s Wedding
Observation Deck
Lee’s Big Break?
Janet’s Surprise Encounter with Onassis
Janet’s Entreaty to Onassis
A Surprising Confession
Jackie Chooses
The Philadelphia Story
No Money from Grampy Lee
Laura
The Farias
One Dollar for Each Year
Part Nine: Onassis
Moving Forward with Ari
“The New Horror”
Onassis at Hammersmith
Janet and Ari Reach an Impasse
Janet’s Fiction
Rushing into Marriage?
“I Need This, Lee”
“It’s Not Too Late!”
Like Mother, Like Daughter?
“A Matter of Life or Death”
“Secrets. That’s What We Do Best.”
Part Ten: Shifting Tides
Peter Beard
Janet Asks Jackie to Appeal to Ari
Andy Warhol and Montauk
Grey Gardens
Janet’s Dismay Over Jackie
“Every Wave Is the Same. Every Wave Is Different.”
“Bred for It”
Changing Winds and Shifting Tides
Raiding Janet’s Attic
Something Wrong with Janet?
Crushing Blows
Lee Radziwill, Inc.
“The Prince Is Gone”
Maurice Tempelsman Tries to Help
Emergency Family Meeting
“Good-bye, Hughdie”
Part Eleven: Enduring
Camelot Gardens
“A Family That Endures”
Newton Cope
Lee’s Wedding Misadventure
Booch
Janet and Bingham Marry
“Jed Clampett”
Maurice Tempelsman
“I’m Lee and I’m an Alcoholic”
Janet Comes to Terms
A Devastating Diagnosis
Part Twelve: “Well, Happy and Loved…”
Janet Jr.’s Life in Hong Kong
Transfusion
Vigil
Brave
Compartmentalization
Jackie Lays Down the Law
Janet’s Surprising Gift to Lee
Sisterly Dispute Over Money
An Alarming Accusation
Jackie at War
Sadist?
Janet’s Eightieth
Herbert Ross
Distancing Herself
Lee and Herbert Marry
“We’ll Be Just Fine…”
The Service for Janet
A Blaze of Glory
Epilogue:
Passages
Photographs
Notes
Source Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Also by J. Randy Taraborrelli
About the Author
Copyright
JACKIE, JANET & LEE. Copyright © 2018 by J. Randy Taraborrelli. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Taraborrelli, J. Randy, author.
Title: Jackie, Janet & Lee: the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill / J. Randy Taraborrelli.
Description: First edition. | New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017036190 | ISBN 9781250128010 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781250128034 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929–1994. | Auchincloss, Janet Lee, 1907–1989. | Radziwill, Lee Bouvier, 1933– | Mothers and daughters—United States. | Presidents’ spouses—United States—Biography. | Celebrities—United States—Biography.
Classification: LCC CT275.O552 T37 2018 | DDC 973.92092/2—dc23
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