by Paula Byrne
14.RK Papers, KK to RK, May 1934.
15.ibid., 20 May 1934.
16.ibid., 27 May 1934.
17.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 214.
18.Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 115.
19.ibid., p. 116.
20.RK Papers.
21.RK Papers, KK to RK, Sept. 1934.
CHAPTER 7: MUCKERS AND TROUBLE
1.RK Papers.
2.RK Papers, KK to RK, 6 Dec. 1934.
3.ibid.
4.RK Papers, KK to JPK, 2 Dec. 1934.
5.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 200.
6.Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 120.
7.See Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 151.
8.JPK to KK, 20 Feb. 1935, quoted in ibid., p. 151.
9.KK to JPK, 22 Feb. 1935, quoted in ibid., p. 152.
10.KK to RK and JPK, 21 Feb. 1935, quoted in ibid.
11.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 148.
12.ibid., p. 100.
13.ibid., p. 101.
14.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 13.
15.Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 115.
16.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 134.
17.ibid.
18.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 209.
19.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 134.
20.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 206.
21.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 15.
22.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 431.
23.Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama (1984), p. 62.
24.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 10.
25.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 122.
26.ibid., p. 123.
27.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 16.
28.ibid.
29.Collier and Horowitz, An American Drama, pp. 45–6.
30.ibid., p. 58.
31.Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 94.
32.Collier and Horowitz, An American Drama, p. 71.
CHAPTER 8: MADEMOISELLE POURQUOI
1.Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 139.
2.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 186.
3.RK Papers, KK to ‘Darling Mother and dad’, 25 Oct. 1935.
4.ibid.
5.RK Papers, KK to ‘Dearest Mother and Daddy’, 31 Oct. 1935.
6.ibid.
7.RK Papers, KK to RK, 17 Feb. 1936.
8.ibid., 27 Nov. 1935.
9.ibid., 31 Oct. 1935.
10.RK Papers, KK to ‘Dearest Mother’, 13 Dec. 1935.
11.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 213.
12.RK Papers, KK to Eunice Kennedy (hereafter EK), 24 Nov. 1935.
13.RK Papers, KK to Bobby Kennedy (hereafter BK), Nov. 1935.
14.ibid.
15.ibid.
16.RK Papers, KK to ‘Mother and Daddy Dear’, 17 Nov. 1935.
17.ibid.
18.ibid.
19.ibid.
20.ibid.
21.RK Papers, KK to RK, 13 Dec. 1935.
22.RK Papers, KK to EK, 24 Nov. 1935.
23.ibid.
24.RK Papers, KK to BK, Nov. 1935.
CHAPTER 9: GSTAAD AND ITALY
1.RK Papers, KK to RK, 13 Dec. 1935.
2.RK Papers, KK to JPK, 3 Jan. 1936.
3.RK Papers, KK to BK, 23 Jan. 1936.
4.RK Papers, KK to Jean Kennedy, 23 Jan. 1936.
5.ibid.
6.RK Papers, KK to RK, 13 Dec. 1935.
7.KK to ‘Dearest Mother and Daddy’, 27 Nov. 1935.
8.Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 146.
9.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 215; RK Papers, JPK to KK, 20 Jan. 1936; Smith, Hostage to Fortune, 20 Jan. 1936, p. 170.
10.RK Papers, JPK to KK, 20 Jan. 1936.
11.RK Papers, KK to ‘Dearest Mother and Daddy’, 19 Jan. 1936.
12.ibid.
13.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 215, KK to ‘Mother dearest’, 11 Feb. 1936.
14.RK Papers, KK to ‘Mother and Daddy dear’, 23 Feb. 1936.
15.ibid., 27 Jan. 1936.
16.ibid., 3 Feb. 1936.
17.ibid.
18.KK to RK, 8 Feb. 1936, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 172.
19.RK Papers, KK to EK, 2 Feb. 1936.
20.ibid.
21.RK Papers, KK to ‘Dearest mother’, 17 Feb. 1936.
22.ibid., to ‘Mother and Daddy dear’, 23 Feb. 1936.
23.ibid., 3 Feb. 1936.
24.RK Papers, KK to JFK, ‘Sunday 8th’, 1936.
25.ibid.
26.RK Papers, KK to ‘Mother and Daddy dear’, 23 Feb. 1936.
27.RK Papers, KK to ‘Dearest Mother and Dad’, 23 March 1936.
28.RK Papers, KK to ‘Dearest Mother and Dad’, 2 March 1936.
29.ibid.
30.ibid.
31.RK Papers, 26 Feb. 1936.
32.RK Papers, KK to ‘Darling Mother and Dad’, 29 March 1936.
33.ibid.
34.RK Papers, KK to family, 30 March 1936.
35.KK to ‘Darling Mother and Dad’, 29 March 1936, quoted in Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 216.
36.RK Papers, KK to Misses Kennedy, postcard, 1936.
37.RK Papers, KK to Messrs Kennedy, postcard, 1936.
38.RK Papers, KK to ‘Darling Mother and Dad’, 29 March 1936.
39.ibid.
40.RK Papers, KK to ‘Darling Mother and Dad’, 2 April 1936.
41.RK Papers, KK to ‘Dearest Dad’, 15 April 1936.
42.ibid.
43.ibid.
44.ibid.
45.RK Papers, KK to ‘Daddy Dear’, 18 April 1936.
46.ibid.
47.ibid.
48.ibid.
CHAPTER 10: TRAVELS WITH MY MOTHER: RUSSIA AND ENGLAND
1.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 191.
2.ibid.
3.RK Papers, KK to RK, 26 April 1936.
4.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 217.
5.ibid.
6.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 192.
7.ibid.
8.RK Papers, RK to KK, 27 May 1936.
9.ibid., 5 June 1936.
10.KK to ‘Mother dearest’, 8 June 1936, quoted in Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 218.
11.See McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 20.
12.KK to ‘Mother dearest’, 8 June 1936, quoted in Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 218.
13.ibid.
14.Quoted in Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 206.
15.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 18.
16.ibid., pp. 18–19.
17.See ibid., p. 20.
18.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 225.
19.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. xv.
20.Kennedy Family Collection (hereafter KFC), KK to her sisters, undated.
CHAPTER 11: POLITICS AND EUROPE REVISITED
1.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 252.
2.ibid., p. 253.
3.ibid., p. 111.
4.ibid., p. 255.
5.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p, 193.
6.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 20; Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 223.
7.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 223.
8.Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 178.
9.ibid.
10.ibid., p. 185.
11.ibid., p. 184.
12.ibid., p. 185.
13.ibid., p. 192.
14.RK Papers, KK to JPK, 18 Aug. 1937.
15.ibid., postcard, 17 Aug. 1937.
16.ibid., 18 Aug. 1937.
17.RK Papers, KK to RK, Aug. 1937.
18.Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 196.
19.ibid., p. 186.
20.ibid.
21.ibid., p. 199.
CHAPTER 12: THE AMBASSADOR
1.Edward Klein, The Kennedy Curse (2003), p. 100.
2.James Roosevelt, My Parents: A Differing View (1976), p. 208.
3.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 272.
4.ibid., p. 274.
5.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 200.
CHAPTER 13: AT THE COURT OF ST JAMES’S
1.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 240; McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 24.
2.Perry, Rose Kennedy, p. 99.
3.ibid
.; Deborah Devonshire, Wait for Me! Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister (2010), p. 204.
4.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 239.
5.ibid., p. 240.
6.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 22.
7.Bzdeck, Kennedy Legacy, p. 38.
8.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 299.
9.ibid.
10.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 201.
11.Devonshire, Wait for Me!, p. 90.
12.Will Swift, The Kennedys amidst the Gathering Storm (2008), p. 35.
13.ibid., p. 36.
14.Joe Jr and Jack were still at Harvard but would come to England later in the summer.
15.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 203.
16.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 286.
17.Cutting from KK scrapbook, 1938–9.
18.RK Papers, RK notes on Windsor Castle.
19.Barbara Leaming, Jack Kennedy: The Making of a President (2006), p. 32.
CHAPTER 14: ‘I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU’
1.Devonshire, Wait for Me!, p. 90.
2.Leaming, Making of a President, p. 32.
3.ibid., p. 259.
4.ibid., p. 34.
5.Collier and Horowitz, An American Drama, p. 90.
6.Leaming, Making of a President, p. 36.
7.RK Papers, KK diary, 17 June 1938.
8.ibid., 18 June 1938.
9.ibid., 19 June 1938.
10.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 33.
11.ibid.
CHAPTER 15: THE DEBUTANTE
1.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 236.
2.Collier and Horowitz, An American Drama, p. 90.
3.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 253.
4.RK Papers, KK diary, 11 May 1938.
5.Perry, Rose Kennedy, p. 105.
6.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, pp. 25–6.
7.RK Papers, KK diary, 2 June 1938.
8.Duncannon married a vivacious American heiress called Mary Munn in the year of Kick’s death.
9.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 39; Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 257.
10.RK Papers, KK diary, 2 June 1938.
11.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 39.
12.Devonshire, Wait for Me!, p. 98.
13.Swift, Gathering Storm, p. 54.
14.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 34.
15.McTaggart relates this story in full, ibid.
16.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 260.
17.ibid., p. 30.
18.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 33.
19.Devonshire, Wait for Me!, p. 90.
CHAPTER 16: LORDS A-LEAPING
1.Devonshire, Wait for Me!, p. 91.
2.Leaming, Kennedy Women, p. 36.
3.ibid., p. 260.
4.Devonshire, Wait for Me!, p. 91.
5.ibid.
6.RK Papers, KK diary, 14 May 1938.
7.ibid.
8.ibid.
9.ibid., 20 May 1938.
10.ibid., 23 May 1938.
11.ibid., 27 May 1938.
12.ibid., 7 June 1938.
13.ibid., 1 June 1938.
14.ibid., 22 June 1938.
15.ibid., 13 June 1938.
16.Perry, Rose Kennedy, p. 106.
17.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 248.
18.RK Papers, KK diary, 13 May 1938.
19.Devonshire, Wait for Me!, p. 95.
20.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 39.
CHAPTER 17: ‘A MERRY GIRL’
1.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 30.
2.ibid.
3.Perry, Rose Kennedy, p. 108.
4.The Times press cutting, KK scrapbook.
5.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, pp. 42–3.
6.ibid.
7.ibid., p. 42.
8.RK Papers, KK diary, 8 July 1938.
9.Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 235.
10.Devonshire, Wait for Me!, p. 102.
11.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 227.
12.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 261.
CHAPTER 18: BILLY
1.RK Papers, KK diary, 18 July 1938.
2.Billy’s title was Earl of Burlington until the death of his grandfather, when his father became Duke of Devonshire and he became Marquess of Hartington.
3.RK Papers, KK diary, 13 July 1938.
4.Devonshire, Wait for Me!, p. 99.
5.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 261.
6.RK Papers, KK diary, 25 July 1938.
7.Devonshire, Wait for Me!, p. 218.
8.ibid., pp. 118–19.
9.ibid., p. 118.
10.Swift, Gathering Storm, p. 72.
11.Devonshire, Wait for Me!, p. 99.
CHAPTER 19: THE RIVIERA
1.As described by Maria Riva, who met the Kennedys that summer: Maria Riva, Marlene Dietrich by her Daughter (1992), p. 468.
2.ibid., p. 469.
3.ibid., p. 466.
4.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 217.
5.ibid.
6.Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 236.
7.Riva, Marlene Dietrich, p. 467.
8.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 326.
9.Riva, Marlene Dietrich, p. 469.
10.ibid.
11.ibid.
12.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 327.
13.Riva, Marlene Dietrich, p. 470.
14.RK Papers, KK diary, 14 Aug. 1938.
15.ibid., 20 Aug. 1938.
16.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 35.
17.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 218.
18.ibid., pp. 218–19.
19.RK Papers, KK diary, 9 Sept. 1938.
20.ibid.
CHAPTER 20: PEACE FOR OUR TIME
1.RK Papers, KK diary, 19 Sept. 1938.
2.Swift, Gathering Storm, pp. 94–5.
3.RK Papers, KK diary, 19 Sept. 1938.
4.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 220.
5.Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 239.
6.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 342.
7.RK Papers, KK diary, 19 Sept. 1938.
8.Swift, Gathering Storm, pp. 98–9.
9.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 346.
10.Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 240.
11.http://www.winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1930-1938-the-wilderness/the-munich-agreement.
12.RK Papers, Oct. 1938.
13.Swift, Gathering Storm, p. 108.
14.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 343.
15.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 289.
16.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 336.
CHAPTER 21: CHATSWORTH
1.Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, Chatsworth: The House (2002).
2.RK Papers, KK diary, 3 Oct. 1938.
3.ibid.
4.ibid., 23 Oct. 1938.
5.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 46.
6.Leaming, Making of a President, p. 46.
7.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 258.
8.Collier and Horowitz, An American Drama, p. 103.
9.Devonshire, Chatsworth, p. 94.
10.Swift, Gathering Storm, p. 72.
11.Collier and Horowitz, An American Drama, p. 103.
12.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 351.
13.ibid., p. 360.
14.ibid., p. 367.
15.RK Papers, KK diary, 9 Dec. 1938.
16.Perry, Rose Kennedy, p. 129.
17.RK Papers, KK diary, 20 Dec. 1939.
CHAPTER 22: ST MORITZ AND ROME
1.RK Papers, KK diary, 24 Dec. 1938.
2.Swift, Gathering Storm, p. 126.
3.RK Papers, KK diary, 24 Dec. 1938.
4.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 270.
5.RK Papers, KK to JPK, 25 Jan. 1939.
6.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 225.
7.Perry, Rose Kennedy, p. 132.
8.RK Papers, KK to JPK, 3 Feb. 1939.
9.Collier and Horowitz, An American Drama, p. 102.
10.Leaming, Making of a President, p. 61.
11.RK Papers, KK diary, 10 Feb. 1939.
12.ibid., 24 Feb. 1939.
13.ibid.
14.Devonshire, Wait for Me!, p. 102.
15.JPK diary, 12 March 1939, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 316.
17.ibid., p. 319.
18.RK Papers, May 1939.
CHAPTER 23: THE GATHERING STORM
1.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 274.
2.ibid., pp. 274–5.
3.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 335.
4.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 430.
5.Leaming, Making of a President, p. 69.
6.ibid., p. 71.
7.RK diary, 4 May 1939, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 332.
8.Perry, Rose Kennedy, p. 139.
9.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 280.
10.Perry, Rose Kennedy, p. 143.
CHAPTER 24: THE LAST HURRAH
1.Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, The Glitter and the Gold (2012), p. 276.
2.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 282.
3.Lady Sarah’s birthday was actually in December, but her party took place in the summer. Eunice turned 18 on Monday, 10 July.
4.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 344.
5.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 281.
6.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 345.
7.Swift, Gathering Storm, p. 174.
8.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 64.
9.Leaming, Making of a President, p. 73.
10.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 283.
11.Although a legend has grown up that Luis was shot immediately, he was in fact executed a month later, in reprisal for an air raid. See Hugh Thomas, The Spanish Civil War (1961), p. 311.
12.Swift, Gathering Storm, p. 177.
13.ibid.; Hamilton, Reckless Youth, pp. 269–70.
14.Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 270.
15.Swift, Gathering Storm, p. 180.
16.Joe Kennedy Jr (hereafter JK) notes on Unity Mitford, Munich, 21 Aug. 1939, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, pp. 355–6.
17.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 400.
18.JPK press release, 24 Aug. 1939, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 360.
CHAPTER 25: ‘THIS COUNTRY IS AT WAR WITH GERMANY’
1.JPK diary, 3 Sept. 1939, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 366.
2.Quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 367.
3.ibid., p. 366.
4.Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 282.
5.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 286.
6.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 366.
7.Leaming, Making of a President, p. 78.
8.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 287.
9.There is no evidence that it was published.
10.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 371. The date, 19 September, is curious, since Kick sailed for America on 12 September. Perhaps she wrote the piece on the boat, in the hope of getting it published in New York on or soon after 19 September.
11.ibid.
12.ibid.
CHAPTER 26: THE PERSONALITY KIDS
1.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 287.
2.KK to JPK, 18 Sept. 1939, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 381.
3.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 289.
4.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 68.
5.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 295.
6.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 69.
7.ibid., p. 70.
8.ibid., p. 71.