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Knocking off JFK's bird.

Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2017 10:31 pm
by Gob
A handwritten rejection of marriage from US president John F Kennedy's widow to a Welsh peer is among a lot which sold at auction for £98,500.

Private letters from the UK's former US ambassador David Ormsby-Gore, Lord Harlech, proposed "a secret marriage" between him and Jackie Kennedy.

Lord Harlech's wife Sylvia died in a car crash four years after the death of his close friend JFK in 1963.

It was sold at an auction at Bonhams in London on Wednesday.

The "Kennedy Harlech Papers" - which had a guide price of £100,000 to £150,000 - also say how much JFK "appreciated" his advice.

Lord Harlech, a close advisor of JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, travelled to the temples of Angkor Wat in Cambodia on a much-publicised trip with Mrs Kennedy just after the death of his wife in 1967.


More; http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-north- ... s-39236308

Re: Knocking off JFK's bird.

Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2017 7:50 pm
by Big RR
Of course she wasn't going to marry him; she was still visiting JFK (or what was left of him) on that Greek island (was it Scorpios?) and eventually married Onassis to give her an excuse to go there). A mere Welsh lord would not do.