by Paula Byrne
dines at Kick’s house in Westminster 269
as member of Churchill’s private army 270
horrified at Kick’s marriage plans 276
Brideshead Revisited 215–16
Welcome Danger (film) 18
Wellesley College 4
Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire 270, 274, 279–80
Wernher, Gina 89
West, Mae 106
White, Charles 210, 233
White House 27, 34, 40, 68, 151
White, John
character and description 157, 164
learns of Jack and Inga’s affair 160
relationship with Kick 163–5, 167–9, 172–3, 176–8, 179, 204, 266
enlists in the navy 169, 177
suspected of espionage 180
sends identical letters of love to Kick and Tatty Spaatz 183
congratulates Kick on her marriage 234
learns of Billy’s death 252
writes a tribute to Kick 285–6
White, Patsy 251–2, 278
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia 278
William of Orange 100
Willoughby, James 246, 255
Wilson, Charles 63
Wilson, Mrs 47
Wilson, Pat 200, 213, 238, 239
Wimbledon 92
Winant, John G. 161
Windsor Castle 79
Windsor, Duke of see Edward VIII
Windsor, Wallis Simpson, Duchess of 53, 107, 272
Winter Palace Hotel, Gstaad (Switzerland) 48, 49
Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS) 202
Wood, Anne 209
Wood, Charles 179–80
Wood, Peter 180
Wood, Richard 180, 183, 184, 199, 209, 224, 253, 267, 268–9
Woods, Richard 279
Wörthersee, Carinthia (Austria) 107
Zoological Society 222
PHOTOGRAPH SECTION
Family: Joe Jr, Jack, Rosemary, Kick, Eunice, Pat, Bobby and baby Jean.
© JFK Library Foundation
Kick on her sled, with Mrs Moore.
© JFK Library Foundation
Studio portrait, aged seven.
© Royal Atelier
Family summers on Cape Cod: swimming in Nantucket Sound
© JFK Library Foundation
The house by the sea in Hyannis Port.
The growing family in front of the Hyannis Port house, arranged as always in descending order of age (Joe Jr, Jack, Rosemary, Kick, Eunice, Pat, Bobby, Jean).
Photograph by Richard Sears
With Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Photograph by Richard Sears
Sporty Kick: diving and tennis at Palm Beach.
© JFK Library Foundation
© Sport and General Press Agency
At Palm Beach: in a rickshaw with Rosemary and, below, the house on Ocean Boulevard.
© JFK Library Foundation
© Robert Stevens
Life on the beach: with Jack, above, and with friends, below.
© Corbis
London: the Ambassador’s residence at Prince’s Gate, overlooking Hyde Park.
The Vatican: the family, with Switzers in attendance, dressed for their audience with the Pope (Rosemary, Kick, Jack, Joe Jr, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, Bobby, Eunice, Jean, Pat).
Photograph by Felici
Coming out: Kick, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy and sister Rosemary on the day of the girls’ presentation as debutantes at court.
Girl about town: Kick in London and, below, at Goodwood races.
The charismatic smile: Kick at an evening party, with an admirer.
Transatlantic girls: Kick (right) and Eunice, smartly dressed in furs at La Guardia airport, New York.
Girl on a bicycle: the iconic press photograph of Kick, the Red Cross worker of World War II.
Father and daughter: Kick in Red Cross uniform, with Joseph P. Kennedy.
Kick, flanked by Joe Jr (left) and Jack, walking down Whitehall to Parliament on the day that war was declared.
Billy and Kick.
Engaged.
© JFK Library Foundation
Married: at Chelsea Register Office, with Billy’s mother, the Duchess of Devonshire, and Kick’s brother, Joe Jr.
Chatsworth.
Shutterstock (Creative Commons licence)
Press reports of the wedding.
Lismore.
Shutterstock (Creative Commons licence)
Peter Fitzwilliam dancing with a girlfriend.
Political Kick: the house in Smith Square, Westminster.
The crash.
The grave at Edensor, on the Chatsworth estate, with flowers laid by President John F. Kennedy on the occasion of his private visit in 1963, shortly before his assassination.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PAULA BYRNE is the critically acclaimed author of five biographies, including Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice, The Real Jane Austen: A Life of Small Things, and Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead. She lives in Oxford, England, with her husband, the academic and biographer Jonathan Bate.
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ALSO BY PAULA BYRNE
Jane Austen and the Theatre
Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson
Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things
Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
As co-editor
Stressed Unstressed: Classic Poems to Ease the Mind
CREDITS
Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2016
Cover photograph © Corbis
COPYRIGHT
KICK. Copyright © 2016 by Paula Byrne. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Originally published in Great Britain in 2016 by William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
FIRST U.S. EDITION
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Byrne, Paula, author.
Title: Kick : the true story of Kick Kennedy, JFK’s forgotten sister and the heir to Chatsworth / Paula Byrne.
Other titles: True story of Kick Kennedy, JFK’s forgotten sister and the heir to Chatsworth
Description: First U.S. edition. | New York : Harper, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016008270| ISBN 9780062296276 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780062296290 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Kennedy, Kathleen, 1920-1948. | Socialites--United States--Biography. | Kennedy family. | Presidents--United States--Brothers and sisters--Biography. | Americans--England--Biography. | Young women--United States--Biography. | Young women--England--Biography. | Aristocracy (Social class)--Great Britain--Biography. | Great Britain--Social life and customs--20th century. | United States--Social life and customs--20th century.
Classification: LCC E843.K45 B96 2016 | DDC 973.9092--dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016008270
ISBN: 978-0-06229627-6
EPub Edition July 2016 ISBN 9780062296290
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