political interests 268–9
chairs the Commandos Benevolent Fund Ball 269
relationship with Peter Fitzwilliam 270–1, 272–5
loses jewellery in burglary in Smith Square 272
stays at Lismore 272–3
considers a political career 274–5
tells her family about Peter Fitzwilliam 277–9
death and funeral 280–3
tributes paid to 285–6
Kennedy, Kathleen Hartington (b.1951) 287
Kennedy, Loretta (1892–1972) 273
Kennedy, Patricia (1924–2006)
correspondence with Kick 56
on or off a diet 105
character and description 106
Kennedy, P. J. 4, 27
Kennedy, Robert ‘Bobby’ (1925–1968)
comment on Jack’s health 32
correspondence with Kick 46, 48, 50, 60, 259
moves to London with his parents 78
character and description 106
skiing accident at St Moritz 120
returns to America 138
learns of Joe’s death 240
reaction to Kick’s death 286
assassination of 287
Kennedy, Rose Fitzgerald (1890–1995)
relationship with her parents 1, 3
walks out on her husband and children 1–2, 6, 7
character and description 2, 3, 11, 12, 34, 77, 79, 85, 102
nickname 2
pins notes everywhere 2, 41
as a devout Roman Catholic 3, 12, 35, 62, 63
meets and marries Joe Kennedy 3–5
birth of children 5–6, 15, 18–19
sex life 6
relationship with her children 7, 9–13, 38–9, 41, 50, 202–3, 237
aware of her husband’s affairs 21–2, 27–8
family life 22–5, 26–7, 39
European and Russian holidays and visits 59–61, 69, 121, 134
prepares for life in London 75
moves to London with Joe 76, 78–9
overawed staying at Windsor Castle 79
chooses American debutantes 85
tries to be accepted into English society 88–9
at Ascot 93
impressed by Dietrich 105
comment on the worsening situation in Europe 108
impressed with Churchill’s oratory 111–12
aware of Kick’s relationship with Billy 118, 215
voted ‘Outstanding woman of the year’ 121–2
attends inauguration of Pope Pius XII 124–5
entertains the Royal Family in London 128
a little shocked at the ‘Big Apple’ dance 128–9
spends final few days in London 137, 138
makes speeches about her life in England 143
reaction to Rosemary’s failed lobotomy 167
doubts concerning Kick’s relationship with Billy 205–6
shocked and ill at Kick marrying Billy 220–2, 225, 229–30, 233
apologizes to Kick for her reaction to her wedding 237
learns of Joe’s death 240
reaction to Billy’s death 257
furious at Kick’s involvement with Peter Fitzwilliam 277, 278, 279
visited by Elizabeth Cavendish 277
reaction to Kick’s death 286
Kennedy, Rosemary (1918–2005) 158
brain-damaged at birth 1, 6, 8, 11, 13, 28–9, 40, 106–7
birth and childhood 6, 24
education 11, 165
as debutante in London 86–7
walks in Hyde Park with Kick 94
gains weight 105
stays in London with her father 138
undergoes disastrous lobotomy 165–7
Kent, Prince George, Duke of 87, 93, 100
Kent, Princess Marina, Duchess of 100
Kenyon-Slaney, Jane see Lindsay, Jane Kenyon-Slaney
Killarney, County Kerry 70
Kristallnacht (1938) 117
Krock, Arthur 34, 110, 158
Lambert, Angela 266
Lannan, Pat 263
Larkin, Mrs 47, 53
Laski, Harold 38, 255–6
Latvia 59
Laycock, Angela ‘Angie’ Dudley Ward 202, 261
Laycock, Major-General Sir Robert ‘Bob’ 202, 261
Le Domaine de Beaumont, Cap d’Antibes 105–6
League of Catholic Women 125
Leave It to Me (musical) 121
Lelong, Lucien (Paris dressmaker) 86
Leningrad 60
Life magazine 232
Lindberg, Charles 92
Lindsay, Jane Kenyon-Slaney
character and description 89, 107–8
friendship with Kick 108, 185, 265
visits Newmarket 114–15
holidays with Kick in Cannes 133
hurriedly leaves France in August 1939 134
engaged to Peter Lindsay 150
correspondence with Kick 155, 156
upset at Kick’s romance with Peter Fitzwilliam 271
Lindsay, Peter 150
Lismore Castle, County Waterford 100, 264, 271–4
Lloyd, Alexander, 2nd Baron 192
Lloyd, George, 1st Baron 192
Lloyd, Lady Jean Ogilvy 81–2, 87, 96, 192, 214, 219–20, 269
Lloyd Thomas, Hugh 97
Lloyd Thomas, Sylvia ‘Sissie’ see Ormsby-Gore, Sylvia ‘Sissie’ Lloyd Thomas
London
4 Smith Square, Westminster 268–9, 272
14 Prince’s Gate 78, 87, 91, 95–6, 126, 129, 138
400 Club, Leicester Square 97, 118, 123, 129, 154, 190, 200
American Women’s Club 128
Belgravia 100
Buckingham Palace 80, 86–7, 99, 117–18
Café de Paris 110, 117, 123, 150, 153–4
Chelsea Register Office 227
Ciro’s 118–19
Claridge’s 117, 154, 228
Devonshire House 100
Dorchester Hotel 192, 269–70
Farm Street Church 191, 199, 204, 215
Gargoyle Club 185
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children 71
Guards’ Chapel 236
Hans Crescent Club (Knightsbridge) 187, 189, 197, 198, 200, 227, 231
Hyde Park 71
Mayfair Hotel 190
Mirabelle club 154
Ritz Hotel 154
Rotten Row 71, 96
Royal Academy 80
St James’s Palace 92
St James’s Square 81
St John’s Church (Westminster) 269
Savoy Hotel 117, 185, 200
Talbot Square 71
Tower of London 100
Vacani School of Dance (Knightsbridge) 86
Wallace Collection 121
Westminster Gardens building, Marsham Street 258–9
White City 132
London School of Economics 38, 44
Long Island 147
Loss, Joe 93
Loughborough, Tony see Rosslyn, Anthony ‘Tony’ St Clair-Erskine, 6th Earl
Lourdes 54
Lovat, Lady Laura Lister 83
Lovat, Simon Fraser, 14th Lord 84, 132
Loving Lips (film) 17
Luce, Clare Boothe 196
Lupin (dog) 262
Luxembourg 145
Mabel (Kick’s cook/housekeeper) 269
McAdoo, Cynthia 150
McAdoo, Francis 150
Macdonald, Torbert ‘Torby’ 67, 132, 133, 142, 160, 172
McDonnell, Anne 147
McDonnell, Charlotte 33, 50, 63, 64, 68, 120, 142, 276–7
McMahon, ‘Pappy’ 195
Macmillan, Harold 265
Madrid 132
Maher, J. J. 37
Mainwaring, Zara 101
Mangelschots, Frans 249, 254
Manhattanville College 52
Margaret, Princess 79, 272
Marie Antoinette 44
Marlborough, Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke
81
Marlborough, John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke 81
Marlborough, John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke 82–3, 130
Mary, Queen 92, 100, 122
Mathew, Bishop David 206, 218, 256–7
Mead, George 142, 161, 176, 178, 188
Merrick, Herb 63
Michael, Prince, of Romania 117–18
Milton Hall, Cambridgeshire 280
Mitford, Deborah ‘Debo’ 212
comments on the Kennedy family 76, 77, 116
comment on the Season 80
attends Kick’s coming-out ball 87
description of the girls in the 1938 Season 89
visits the Pathé cinema in Piccadilly 91
comment on energetic dancing 93–4
comment on humiliation for girls with no dance partners 93
comment on the 400 nightclub 97
houseguest at Compton Place 101
comment on Edward Cavendish 102
comment on Billy 116
character and description 123
courted by and marries Andrew Cavendish 123–4, 150, 155
war-work 149
tries to persuade Kick to return to London 161
helps to console Kick on her loss 254, 258
description of Lismore Castle 271–2
attends Kick’s funeral 283
employs Ilona and Elisabeth Solymossy 287
receives letter from Jack concerning Kick’s gravestone inscription 287
Mitford, Diana 123
Mitford, Jessica ‘Decca’ 123
Mitford, Nancy 87, 123, 149–50
Mitford, Unity 123, 134
Molyneux, Edward (dressmaker) 86, 137
Moore, Edward ‘Eddie’ 19, 120
Moore, Mary 19
Moscardó Ituarte, General José 132
Moscardó Ituarte, Luis 132
Moscow 60–1
Mosley, Oswald 123
Mosquito Armada 147
Motor Torpedo Squadron 194
Mountbatten, Lady Edwina 100
Mountbatten, Lord Louis 100
Movietone News 85
Muckers Club, Choate School 37–8
Muir, Sylvia 89
Munich 110–12
Mussolini, Benito ‘Il Duce’ 57, 58, 69, 74, 110
Naples 58
National Service (Armed Forces) Bill (1939) 137
Nazis 107, 111, 112, 127, 132–3, 134, 171, 175
New York 277
Chatham Hotel 266
Columbia School of Journalism 158
Cotton Club (Times Square) 66–7
Finch College (Manhattan) 142, 145
Maillard’s Restaurant 38
Parsons School of Fine and Applied Art 69, 75
Plaza Hotel 63, 142, 251
Radio City 38
Stork Club 142
Waldorf Hotel 63, 251
New York Daily News 286
New York Times 34, 195
New Yorker magazine 239
Newberry, Cam 63
Newmarket 38, 114
Newport, Gerald Bridgeman, Viscount 87
Nixon, Richard 39
Northumberland, Helen Percy, Duchess of 128
Norton, Sally 89, 149, 153–5, 160–1, 167
Norway 145, 146
Nuremberg 108
O’Connell, Cardinal William 5, 27–8
Ogilvy, David see Airlie, 12th Earl
Ogilvy, Jean see Lloyd, Lady Jean Ogilvy
Ogilvy, Mabell see Airlie, Dowager Duchess
Olympic Games (1936) 52, 170, 171
O’Malley, Marie Celeste 52
Order of the Sacred Heart 4
Ormsby-Gore, David, 5th Baron Harlech
character and description 82
lifelong friend to the Kennedy family 82, 99
romance and marriage to Sissy Lloyd Thomas 97, 127, 150
attends dinner party at Prince’s Gate 126
accompanies Jack driving through Nazi Germany 132–3
dines with Kick 276
Ormsby-Gore, Katharine 126–7
Ormsby-Gore, Sylvia ‘Sissie’ Lloyd Thomas
as debutante 89
romance and marriage to David 97, 127, 150
friendship with Kick 99, 188, 276
Ormsby-Gore, William, 4th Baron Harlech 82, 118
Pacelli, Cardinal Eugenio see Pius XII, Pope Paine, Frank 23
Palm Beach, Florida 32, 33, 36, 38, 51, 143, 144, 145, 167
Paris 44–8, 52, 54, 120, 147
Bois de Boulogne 47
George V hotel 282
Louvre 45
Madeleine Church 47
Parker Bowles, Andrew 122, 262
Parker Bowles, Derek 122
Parsons, Luella 77
Patrick, Charles 193
Patterson, Eleanor ‘Cissy’ 158, 170
Pearl Harbor (1941) 169
Petit, Paul 281–2
Philip, Prince 154
Pius XI, Pope 57, 58, 124
Pius XII, Pius (Eugenio Pacelli) 57, 67, 68, 124–5, 215
Poland 134–5
Porgy and Bess (musical) 178
Portal, Sir Charles 254
Porter, Cole 121
Portrush, County Antrim 70
Portsmouth, Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl 91
Queen magazine 78, 87, 101
Reader’s Digest 22–3
Red Cross see American Red Cross
Redesdale, David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron 87
Redesdale, Sydney Bowles, Lady 94, 123
The Restless Sex (film) 17
Rhodes Scholars 92
Ribbentrop, Joachim von 110–11
Richardson, Derek 50–2, 54, 61, 62
Richardson, Mrs 54
Richman, Harry 87, 92
Richmond, Frederick Gordon-Lennox, 9th Duke 101
Richmond, Virginia 183
Riverdale County School 18
Riverdale, New York 16
RMS Queen Mary 61, 98, 182
Rockefeller, Winthrop 142
Rome 56–8, 124–5
St Peter’s 57, 124
Vatican 57, 58, 125
Romilly, Esmond 123
Roosevelt, Eleanor 158, 252
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
presidential campaigns 34, 67
Joe turns down all posts offered by 43–4
invites the Kennedys to his second inauguration 68
appoints Joe Ambassador to Court of St James 73–5
asks Joe to drop his trousers 73
distrust of Joe 74
supported by Joe in his re-election campaign 151–2
‘Lend-Lease’ agreement 155
mis-remembers Billy’s name 257
Roosevelt, Jimmy 73
Ross Castle, Lough Leane 70
Rosslyn, Anthony ‘Tony’ St Clair-Erskine, 6th Earl 131, 189, 198, 199, 224
Rosslyn, James St Clair-Erskine, 5th Earl 131
Rouff, Maggy 89
Roy, Harry (bandleader) 93
Rudi (Austrian Jew) 107
Russia 59–61
Rutland, Charles Manners, 10th Duke of 227
Rutland, John Henry Manners, 9th Duke 108
Rutland, Kathleen Tennant, Duchess 108
Rutland, Violet Manners, Dowager Duchess 108
Sacred Heart Convent, Blumenthal (Holland) 4, 44
Sacred Heart Convent, Boston 4
Sacred Heart Convent, Kendal (Lake District) 258
Sacred Heart Convent, Noroton-on-the-
Sound (Connecticut) 29, 30–4, 36, 52, 62, 67, 69
Sacred Heart Convent, St Maux (France) 39, 44
St Bernadette 54
St Coletta’s, Wisconsin 167
St Elizabeth’s mental hospital, Washington 166
St John, George 37
St Moritz 120–1
San Sebastián 132
Saturday Evening Post 127
The Scarlet Pimpernel (film) 38
&
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Second World War
events leading up to 109–12, 117, 122, 125, 127, 134–5
declaration of 136–8
air-raid sirens and blackouts 137, 138–40
Phoney War 142
fall of Norway, Holland and Luxembourg 145–6
heroic evacuation from Dunkirk 146–7, 245
Billy’s evacuation from Saint-Nazaire 147
Operation Ariel 147
the Blitz 149–50, 153–5
D-Day 235
flying bombs (‘doodlebugs’) 236–7, 238
Second front 236–7
Operation Aphrodite 238–9
liberation of Brussels 243–5
battle for Heppen 248–9
VE Day 261–2
surrender of the Japanese 265
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 34, 43
Shaw, Artie 142
Shaw, George Bernard 269
Sheen, Father Fulton 278
Shillelagh, County Wicklow 264–5
Short Skirts (film) 17
Sieber, Maria 104–7
Solymossy, Elisabeth 272, 287
Solymossy, Ilona 272, 279, 287
Spaatz, Tatty 183
Spanish Civil War 132
Spellman, Archbishop of New York 215, 223, 225
Spencer-Churchill, Sarah 130
SS Normandie 43
SS Washington 138, 141
Stalin, Joseph 192
Suvretta House, St Moritz 120–1
Swanson, Gloria 107
affair with Joe Kennedy 19–20, 21–2, 27–8
Swanson, Gloria ‘little Gloria’ 19–20, 22
Talbot, Father Ted 216
Talugi, Solomon Islands 188
Tangye, Derek 185
Temple, William, Archbishop of Canterbury 222, 223
Tenney, Nancy 22, 64, 141–2, 150
Thomas, Sylvia ‘Sissie’ Lloyd see Ormsby-Gore, Sylvia ‘Sissie’ Lloyd Thomas
The Times 256, 285
Tom (hotel bellboy) 232, 233
Toodles (cigarette girl) 5
Townshend, Peter 281
Trafford, Ann de 122
Transatlantic Daily Mail 155
United States Maritime Commission 68
University of Oxford 82, 91–2, 180
Vanderbilt, Consuelo 81
Vatican II (1962) 204
Venice 55–6
Accademia 55
Hotel Gabrielli Sandwirth 55
Lido 55–6
Murano, Burano, Torcello 55
San Marco 55
Vienna 127
Vogue magazine 96, 232
Waldrop, Frank 156, 158, 159, 170, 190, 242
Wall Hall Abbey, Hertfordshire 134
Wall Street crash 27–8
Ward, Lady Patricia 50, 53
Washington DC 277, 278
Washington Times-Herald 156, 158, 169, 170–1, 234
Watts, James 166
Waugh, Evelyn
friendship with Kick 97
comment on Father D’Arcy 204
believes Kick is marrying due to ‘second front nerves’ 224–5
calls Kick the Widow Hartington 262
celebrates surrender of the Japanese 265