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.
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Knocking off JFK's bird.
Knocking off JFK's bird.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Knocking off JFK's bird.
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.