![]() It was a world of dukes and duchesses, of grand houses, of country house weekends, and of wild rich boys. She soon captured the heart of Billy, Marquess of Hartington, model heir to the 10th Duke of Devonshire.īestselling and award-winning biographer Barbara Leaming draws on her unique access to firsthand accounts, extensive conversations with many of the key players, and previously-unseen sources to transport us to another world, one of immense wealth, arcane rituals and rules, glamour and tragedy, that has now disappeared forever. Toothsome, tanned and slim, these escapees from sectarian Boston soon conquered Britain, particularly the Golden Trio: Joe Junior, Jack and Kick – but especially Kick, whose unaffected, life-enhancing spirit enchanted the scions of noble strongholds from Hatfield House and Hardwick Hall, to Cliveden and Cortachy Castle. James, with his wife, Rose, and their nine children, Life magazine declared that the United Kingdom had got “eleven ambassadors for the price of one.” When Joe Kennedy arrived in London in 1938, as the US Ambassador to the Court of St. ![]() An American heiress transplanted to the Old World, finding herself surrounded by aristocratic suitors a blossoming romance in the face of dynastic disapproval an illicit passion doomed to end in tragedy. ![]() The brief life of Kathleen Kennedy (always Kick) could have come from the pens of Henry James, Shakespeare or Wagner. ![]()
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