Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter (36 page)

accompanied by his aunt: Kathleen Kennedy, diary entry, July 13, 1938, JFKL.

Rose Kennedy had her reservations: Debo Devonshire to BL, author interview.

“favorite”: Anne Tree to BL, author interview.

acquiesced to his brother’s claim: Andrew Devonshire to BL, author interview.

“We listened to the radio for news flashes…”: Kathleen Kennedy, diary entry, September 19, 1938, JFKL.

Three

September 21, 1938: Dates based on Jean Ogilvy’s diary.

two chairs remained conspicuously empty: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

Jean perceived that Kick: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

Lady Airlie was the parent: Debo Devonshire to BL, author interview.

tended to be good-humored: Debo Devonshire to BL, author interview.

he was instructed to tell: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

As the girls understood: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

“All you can hear or talk about…”: Kathleen Kennedy to Lem Billings, September 23, 1938, JFKL.

“You are all dangerous…”: Lord Airlie quoted by Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

Accompanying them now: Debo Devonshire, author interview.

The duchess privately preferred: Debo Devonshire to BL, author interview.

even in this romantic setting: Debo Devonshire to BL, author interview.

The determined silliness and laughter: Debo Devonshire to BL, author interview.

Ivar Colquhoun sprayed: Kathleen Kennedy, diary entry, September 19, 1938, JFKL.

Jakie Astor: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview. Also, Kathleen Kennedy, diary entry, September 19, 1938, JFKL.

she listened to: Kathleen Kennedy, diary entry, September 19, 1938, JFKL.

“I have never seen such happiness”: Kathleen Kennedy, diary entry, September 26, 1938, JFKL.

Munich and the war were the only topics of conversation: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

“to find peace and everyone deliriously happy”: Kathleen Kennedy, diary entry, September 26, 1938, JFKL.

went to stay at Churchdale Hall: Kathleen Kennedy, diary entry, October 3, 1938, JFKL.

talked for hours every night: Kathleen Kennedy, diary entry, October 3, 1938, JFKL.

One speech: Andrew Devonshire to BL, author interview.

“Peace he certainly…”:
Hansard
, House of Commons Debate, European Situation, October 4, 1938, vol. 339, cc 169–308 UK Parliament.

“These precedents do not justify…”: Hansard.

Andrew would darkly reflect: Andrew Devonshire to BL, author interview.

Kick had a good deal more freedom: Debo Devonshire to BL, author interview.

travel to Cambridge in the company of Jane Kenyon-Slaney: Kathleen Kennedy, diary entry, October 27, 1938, JFKL.

“All Billy’s relatives…”: Kathleen Kennedy, diary entry, November 23, 1938, JFKL.

To the duchess’s perception: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview. Also, Anne Tree to BL, author interview.

“normally reticent”: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

she had no intention of giving in: Anne Tree to BL, author interview.

to Billy’s right: Kathleen Kennedy, diary entry, December 9, 1938, JFKL.

a tacit acknowledgment: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

“dirty looks”: Kathleen Kennedy, diary entry, December 9, 1938, JFKL.

at the 400 Club: Kathleen Kennedy, diary entry, December 9, 1938, JFKL.

“mad games…”: Kathleen Kennedy, diary entry, December 10, 1938, JFKL.

the better part of the evening: Kathleen Kennedy, diary entry, December 13, 1938, JFKL.

breaks a previously arranged date: Kathleen Kennedy, diary entry, December 14, 1938, JFKL.

several long lunches: Jean Ogilvy’s diary.

went on to Ciro’s: Kathleen Kennedy, diary entry, December 21, 1938, JFKL.

she confessed: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

Rose had exhibited: Debo Devonshire to BL, author interview.

she dreaded the explosion: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

Kick had indignantly objected: Betty Coxe Spalding to BL, author interview.

“acted as if…”: Arthur Krock, transcript of interview by Joan and Clay Blair Jr., Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston (hereafter MHS).

“Such is Kick!…”: Kathleen Kennedy’s scrapbook, JFKL.

the cousins remarked: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

forcefully confronted with the duties: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

he felt he would be: Anne Tree to BL, author interview.

would not have been permitted: Kathleen Kennedy, diary entry, February 14, 1939, JFKL.

Billy had become absorbed: Anne Tree to BL, author interview.

a model for the influential figure: Anne Tree to BL, author interview. Also, Richard Holderness to BL, author interview.

“The Prime Minister…”: The Duke of Devonshire quoted in Robert Kee,
The World We Left Behind
(London: Weidenfeld, 1990), p. 144.

more than a thousand spectators: Julian Amery,
Approach March: A Venture in Autobiography
(London: Hutchinson and Co., 1973), p. 115.

undertook to make Kick understand: Andrew Devonshire to BL, author interview.

showed them a movie: The scene of the film screening is based on interviews with Fiona Arran and Jean Lloyd.

“grow up more quickly”: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

“not to waste a minute”: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

“I have seen much…”: Robert Rhodes James, ed.,
Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon
(London: Phoenix, 1996), p. 204.

He thereupon spoke: Anne Tree to BL, author interview.

out of the question: Anne Tree to BL, author interview.

forbade her: Debo Devonshire to BL, author interview.

more than 2,500 guests: Debo Devonshire’s scrapbook.

the more conspicuous by her absence: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

did persist in talking about her: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

“These Catholic girls are a menace!”: Lord Dick Cavendish quoted by Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

the Duchess of Richmond’s ball: Andrew Devonshire,
Accidents of Fortune
(Norwich; Michael Russell, 2004), p. 26.

officially entered the Coldstream Guards: Public Records Office, Kew (hereafter PRO).

“Some day—somehow”: Kathleen Kennedy to Rose F. Kennedy, July 6, 1944, JFKL.

Four

“like a beautiful dream”: Kathleen Kennedy to Joseph P. Kennedy, September 18, 1939, JFKL.

“Thanks a lot…”: Kathleen Kennedy to Joseph P. Kennedy, September 18, 1939, JFKL.

“killing time”: Kathleen Kennedy quoted in Peter Collier and David Horowitz,
The Kennedys: An American Drama
(New York: Summit, 1984), p. 131.

“a castle and not…”: Amanda Smith, ed.,
Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy
(New York: Viking, 2011), p. 517.

“a person…”: Lem Billings quoted in Doris Kearns Goodwin,
The Kennedys and the Fitzgeralds
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987), p. 703.

Jean Ogilvy sent word: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

“He is…”: Robert Rhodes James, ed.,
Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon,
p. 22.

“They bemoaned your absence…”: Nancy Astor to Kathleen Kennedy, n.d., UR.

where her real life and real friends: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

a sealed private message: Nancy Astor to Philip Lothian, November 27, 1939, UR.

“scandalous”: Nancy Astor to Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., February 2, 1940, UR.

shown no such reluctance: Philip Lothian to Nancy Astor, December 2, 1939, UR.

the ambassador wrote to notify: Joseph P. Kennedy to Rose F. Kennedy, April 5, 1940, JFKL.

“without America taking credit for it”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Rose F. Kennedy, April 5, 1940, JFKL.

“shuttled off to war”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Rose F. Kennedy, April 16, 1940, quoted in David Nasaw,
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
(New York: Penguin Press, 2012), p. 438.

“a psychological tonic”:
New York Times,
May 11, 1940.

“I still keep…”: Kathleen Kennedy to Joseph P. Kennedy, May 21, 1940, quoted in Doris Kearns Goodwin,
The Kennedys and the Fitzgeralds,
p. 704.

“nothing but a miracle”: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke,
War Diaries, 1939–1945
(London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001), p. 67.

“and the next time…”:
New York Times,
June 2, 1940.

“drawn, miserable”: Nancy Astor to Philip Lothian, June 10, 1940, UR.

hoping that good news: Nancy Astor to Philip Lothian, June 16, 1940, UR.

struggling desperately: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

“They just attacked and attacked”: Billy Hartington quoted by Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

strategy of terror: on the terror tactics of the Germans, see Sinclair McKay,
Dunkirk: From Disaster to Deliverance
(London: Aurum Press, 2014), p. 114.

their talk that first day: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

Five

“calling the huddle”: Charles Spalding, oral history, JFKL.

“The big difficulty…”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Rose F. Kennedy, August 2, 1940, JFKL.

“I wish…”: Kathleen Kennedy to Joseph P. Kennedy, August 6, 1940, JFKL.

shipped off to live with Nancy Astor: Debo Devonshire to BL, author interview.

Jean traveled daily: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

Joe Airlie had: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

Foreign Office documents: FO 371/24251, PRO.

interview with
The Boston Globe
: FO 371/2451, PRO.

address to film industry figures: E. A. Cleugh to Richard Ford, November 22, 1940, FO 371/2451, PRO. Also, Fairbanks to Roosevelt, November 19, 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park.

“Hope the New Year…”: Amanda Smith, ed.,
Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy,
p. 517.

Soon, Nancy Astor was signaling: Nancy Astor to Kathleen Kennedy, February 22, 1941, UR.

“Every few days…”: Tony Rosslyn to John F. Kennedy, October 27, 1940, JFKL.

“over the dead bodies…”: Tony Rosslyn to John F. Kennedy, January 6, 1941, JFKL.

“pals”: Debo Devonshire to BL, author interview.

when he told the story afterward to his brother: Andrew Devonshire to BL, author interview.

Even he had been heard to exclaim: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

the arrangement appeared to work out no better: Debo Devonshire to BL, author interview.

“It was a…”: Billy Hartington quoted by Kathleen Kennedy in letter to Joseph P. Kennedy, October 22, 1941, JFKL.

to be living more in Belgium and France: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

“temporarily”: Andrew Devonshire to BL, author interview.

“my Billy”: Sally Norton quoted by Debo Devonshire to BL, author interview.

“after Billy”: Debo Devonshire to BL, author interview.

“should have to make do with second best”: Billy Hartington to Rose F. Kennedy, April 30, 1944, JFKL.

she would later acknowledge: Betty Coxe Spalding to BL, author interview.

“hang around”: Frank Waldrop, transcript of interview by Joan and Clay Blair Jr., MHS.

“and even if…”: Kathleen Kennedy to Joseph P. Kennedy, October 3, 1941, JFKL.

“I am nearly going mad” Kathleen Kennedy to Joseph P. Kennedy, October 20, 1941, JFKL.

“Rather sad…”: Kathleen Kennedy to Joseph P. Kennedy, October 22, 1941, JFKL.

Six

“usual childhood illnesses”: John F. Kennedy’s naval records, JFKL.

cling to her collective Kennedy identity: Betty Coxe Spalding to BL, author interview.

the Kennedy Kids: Betty Coxe Spalding to BL, author interview.

as Kick later recalled: Kathleen Kennedy to John F. Kennedy, July 29, 1943, JFKL.

“quick victory”: JFK notes on dinner at Mrs. Patterson’s, JFKL.

sit up late with him: Betty Coxe Spalding to BL, author interview.

“the devil’s position”: John White, transcript of interview by Nigel Hamilton, MHS.

“Tonight for the first time…”: John White’s diary quoted in Doris Kearns Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys,
p. 727.

viewed himself as a beneficent presence in her life: Betty Coxe Spalding to BL, author interview.

“Frivolous, but harmless”: John White, transcript of interview by Nigel Hamilton, MHS.

“in the way”: John White, transcript of interview by Nigel Hamilton, MHS.

But whereas John White: John White, transcript of interview of Joan and Clay Blair, Jr., MHS.

“Jack’s Future”: Betty Coxe Spalding to BL, author interview.

“He had the charm…”: Inga Arvad’s unpublished memoir, MHS.

“I have gooey…”: John White, transcript of interview by Joan and Clay Blair Jr., MHS.

“motherly”: Betty Coxe Spalding to BL, author interview.

“a boy with a future”: Inga Arvad,
Washington Times Herald,
November 27, 1941.

“big bag of wind”: Kathleen Kennedy quoted in Lynne McTaggart,
Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Times
(New York: Dial, 1983), p. 97.

“ignorant, thick headed Mick”: John White quoted in Lynne McTaggart,
Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Times,
p. 99.

lunch at a local restaurant: John White, transcript of interview by Nigel Hamilton, MHS.

“arranged”: Cissy Patterson quoted in Ralph G. Martin,
Cissy
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979), p. 418.

intensive monitoring operation: memorandum for the attorney general, Re: Mrs. Paul Fejos, nee Inga Arvad, Espionage, Internal Security, January 21, 1942, FBI.

“getting ready to…”: John White, transcript of interview by Joan and Clay Blair Jr., MHS.

bequeathed to Kick: Betty Coxe Spalding to BL, author interview.

Kick’s personal photographs: Betty Coxe Spalding to BL, author interview.

broken off with Sally Norton: Nancy Astor to Kathleen Kennedy, December 24, 1941, JFKL.

a prime mover in the breakup: Anne Tree to BL, author interview.

seemed to affect Billy profoundly: Anne Tree to BL, author interview.