


The story continues with Jackie’s marriage to Senator Jack Kennedy, (who becomes President of the United States in 1960), and Lee’s royal union to the dashing Prince Stanislaw Radziwill. A woman stunningly ahead of her time, Janet bore a daughter-Jackie’s and Lee’s half-sister, Janet- using her own version of artificial insemination, a science practically unheard of in the 1940s. Though he could guarantee financial stability, he also made it clear to Janet that he could never consummate the marriage. Janet would then make the ultimate sacrifice for her daughters when she wedded the well-heeled Hugh Auchincloss. Lee and chose divorce at a time when it was taboo. She flouted convention by defying her powerful, religious father James T. Though she had two children with him-Jackie and Lee-Janet’s marriage was far from a happy one as she had to cope with her husband’s infidelity. Janet Lee Bouvier was a formidable woman from a wealthy family who, in 1928, married the dashing but unpredictable Jack “Black Jack” Bouvier.


Randy Taraborrelli breaks through the mystery surrounding the lives of these enigmatic women and takes readers into the big and small moments of their lives, weaving a captivating psychological portrait of two famous sisters and their ferociously protective and ambitious mother. Martin’s Press On-sale: January 30, 2018), the New York Times’ multi-bestselling biographer J. In JACKIE, JANET & LEE: The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Princess Lee Radziwill (St. The relationship between the three women and how it came to impact Jackie’s life as one of the most famous of America’s First Ladies has never before been revealed in its entirety, until now. To truly understand Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, one of the most iconic women of the 20th century, is to understand the powerful bond she shared with her mother Janet Auchincloss, and younger sister, the enormously complex Lee Radziwill. Jackie, Janet & Lee The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee RadziwillĪ dazzling biography of three of the most glamorous women of the 20th Century: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, her mother Janet Lee Auchincloss, and her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill.
