Love letters exchanged between Jackie Kennedy and former U.K. ambassador David Ormsby-Gore that reveal the depth of their passionate relationship and the heartbreak that followed when she decided to marry shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis are up for auction.
The former First Lady and ambassador’s relationship after John F. Kennedy’s assassination in November, 1963 — and Ormsby-Gore’s subsequent marriage proposal — have been documented in several Kennedy family biographies. But the newly discovered writings shed fresh light on not only their relationship but also on the early days of her marriage to Onassis.
“I care about you so much, and before Georgia I thought maybe I had cut all communication forever, I hope that isn’t true, we have known so much and shared and lost so much together,” she wrote to Ormsby-Gore just a month into her marriage to the Greek-Argentine billionaire.