Jackie Kennedy’s Secret Priest -Bekendissen, Hidden Heartaches Unveiled
But he asked her to marry him. Later she told Leonard that she had foreseen and already disturbed his unfaithfulness by comparing them with her father, John “Black Jack” Bouvier.
Her parents were divorced when she was 10, but she was strongly dedicated to him. Her new husband has’ so strong a personality – like his father [Joseph Kennedy]that lady so overwhelmed [Rose] Kennedy, he doesn’t even speak to her when she’s in the neighborhood, and her only comfort is now her religion … I don’t think Jack’s mother is too smart.
She would rather say a rosary than reading a book. “
Later she confessed that her “frightening ambitious” husband is also like “my father loves the pursuit and is bored with the conquest – and once married the proof that he is still attractive, so he flirts with other women and disturb you. I saw how that almost killed Mama.”
Her heartache deepened with the tragic loss of her stillborn daughter Arabella in 1956. The sorrow she masked with grace was made in her private stress. She wrote that she even struggled with her own faith in the Lord.
She revealed, “I am so bitter against God.” But, she told Leonard, she could “see how sadly shared married people brings together.”
She gave birth to daughter Caroline in 1957 and son John in 1960, but her son Patrick died in two days old and her husband was murdered three months later.
