Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter (39 page)

“the soul of…”: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington’s round-robin letter to her family, May 18, 1944, JFKL.

refrained from speaking: Richard Holderness to BL, author interview.

she required a husband: Richard Holderness to BL, author interview.

“that curious air of glamour…”: Joseph W. Alsop,
“I’ve Seen the Best of It”: Memoirs
(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992), p. 408.

discreetly visiting: Andrew Devonshire to BL, author interview.

plunged Kick into the worlds of horse racing and gambling: Andrew Devonshire to BL, author interview.

“wonderfully easy and jolly”: Joseph W. Alsop,
“I’ve Seen the Best of It”: Memoirs,
p. 408.

More and more: Anne Tree to BL, author interview.

accepted Eric Dudley Ward’s invitation: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington’s round-robin letter to her family, October 18, 1946, JFKL.

continued to live: Andrew Devonshire to BL, author interview.

“the most enjoyable…”: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington’s round-robin letter to her family, August 26, 1946, JFKL.

“The certainty of a Duke!”: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington’s round-robin letter to her family, August 11, 1946, JFKL.

“there were more grouse…”: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington’s round-robin letter to her family, August 26, 1946, JFKL.

“The shooting is…”: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington’s round-robin letter to her family, August 26, 1946, JFKL.

“prewar standards”: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington’s round-robin letter to her family, August 1, 1946, JFKL.

“interesting”: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose F. Kennedy, October 3, 1946, JFKL.

“the other Lady…”: Debo Devonshire to BL, author interview.

rather to her own embarrassment: Debo Devonshire to BL, author interview.

Debo would bring with her: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

“besotted”: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

that she must arrange: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

applauded the magnificence of the ball: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose F. Kennedy, October 28, 1946, JFKL.

an element of competition: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

On Peter’s side as well: Andrew Devonshire to BL, author interview.

liked him personally: Andrew Devonshire to BL, author interview.

For Peter to claim: Andrew Devonshire to BL, author interview.

“eighteenth-century lord”: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

“one of the…”: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington’s round-robin letter to her family, November 8, 1946, JFKL.

“It was really…”: Elizabeth Cavendish to BL, author interview.

Thirteen

“It made me…”: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington’s round-robin letter to her family, April 29, 1947, JFKL.

“peaceful and tranquil”: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington to Rose F. Kennedy, June 1, 1947, JFKL.

“really too much”: Elizabeth Cavendish to BL, author interview.

“seen more of”: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington’s round-robin letter to her family, April 29, 1947, JFKL.

“new schedule…”: Rose F. Kennedy’s round-robin letter to her children, March 6, 1947, JFKL.

never been away: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington’s round-robin letter to her family, April 29, 1947.

the mood and morale: Andrew Devonshire to BL, author interview.

dinner party for the Windsors: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington’s round-robin letter to her family, October 18, 1946, JFKL.

“tremendous ovation”: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington’s round-robin letter to her family, June 22, 1947, JFKL.

“first class”: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington’s round-robin letter to her family, June 22, 1947, JFKL.

he lacked: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

“a rather squalid…”: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington’s round-robin letter to her family, June 22, 1947, JFKL.

“the largest…”: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington’s round-robin letter to her family, August 3, 1947, JFKL.

“The gardens have…”: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington’s round-robin letter to her family, August 3, 1947, JFKL.

“an exchange of…”: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington to Joseph P. Kennedy, August 24, 1947, JFKL.

Jean Lloyd accidentally: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

Sadly and softly: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

she countered that David: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

They judged that: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

she doubted that: Elizabeth Cavendish to BL, author interview.

“moral support”: Elizabeth Cavendish to BL, author interview.

“absolutely terrified”: Elizabeth Cavendish to BL, author interview.

she was equally intent: Elizabeth Cavendish to BL, author interview.

Elizabeth would join: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington’s round-robin letter to her family, December 19, 1947, JFKL.

“great big head off”: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington’s round-robin letter to her family, January 21, 1948, JFKL.

“just the family”: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington’s round-robin letter to her family, December 16, 1947, JFKL.

“slightly more sane”: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington’s round-robin letter to her family, December 16, 1947, JFKL.

“But I am mad”: Unity Mitford quoted in Kathleen Kennedy Hartington’s round-robin letter to her family, December 16, 1947, JFKL.

the more deeply ingrained: Deborah Devonshire to BL, author interview.

stolen: Andrew Devonshire to BL, author interview.

By turns: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

At moments: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

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

did much to shape Andrew: Richard Holderness to BL, author interview.

had Billy survived: Richard Holderness to BL, author interview.

Kick’s miscalculation: Richard Holderness to BL, author interview.

wanted to warn: Andrew Devonshire to BL, author interview.

he worried: Andrew Devonshire to BL, author interview.

in the end he chose: Andrew Devonshire to BL, author interview.

she and Elizabeth: Elizabeth Cavendish to BL, author interview.

it seemed inconceivable: Elizabeth Cavendish to BL, author interview.

at night they delighted: Elizabeth Cavendish to BL, author interview.

she had never ceased: Debo Devonshire to BL, author interview.

Jean remembered: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

All she could think of: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

“for an eternity”: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

His aim was: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

“favorite of all the children”: Rose F. Kennedy to Nancy Astor, June 14, 1948, UR.

found herself wishing: Debo Devonshire to BL, author interview.

telegraphed his son: Joseph P. Kennedy to John F. Kennedy, May 15, 1948, JFKL.

a pass at Billy’s twenty-two-year-old sister: Elizabeth Cavendish to BL, author interview.

Some onlookers wept: Jean Lloyd to BL, author interview.

cut a devastated: Debo Devonshire to BL, author interview.

INDEX

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Acland, Sir Richard

Adair, Allan

Addison’s disease

Adeane, Michael

African Front (WW II)

Airlie, Dowager Countess of

Airlie, Lady

Airlie, Lord Joe

Ambrose, Bert

“The American Housewife in Wartime” speech (Cavendish, K.)

Amery, Julian

appeasement policy, UK

Kennedy, Joseph, and

via Munich Agreement

Arvad, Inga

Astaire, Fred

Astor, Barbara

Astor, Chiquita

Astor, Jakie

Astor, Lady Nancy

Astor, Lord

Astor, Michael

election to Parliament by

Athenia
(cruise liner)

atomic weapons

Attlee, Clement

Austria, invasion of

Bakewell Fair, Derbyshire

Baldwin, Stanley

Battle of Britain (WW II)

Battle of El Alamein (WW II)

Battle of Flanders (WW II)

Battle of Heppen (WW II)

Battle of Normandy (WW II)

Belgium

Berlin, Irving

Berry, Seymour

Bessborough, Earl of

Biddle, Anthony Drexel

Biddle, Margaret

Billings, Lem

Bingham, Robert

Birley, Oswald

Book of Common Prayer

Bore War.
See also
World War II

The Boston Globe

Bouvier, Jacqueline

Bowles, Derek Parker

Brand, Bob

Brand, Dinah

Britain.
See
United Kingdom

British Expeditionary Forces.
See also
Coldstream Guards

Distinguished Service Orders awarded to

Military Crosses awarded to

British Foreign Office

British General Election of 1945

British Union of Fascists

Brooke, Alan

Bruce, Marie

Brussels, liberation of (WW II)

Bullitt, William

Burlington, William, Earl of.
See
Hartington, William Cavendish, Marquess of

Camrose, Lord

Cavendish, Adele Astaire

Cavendish, Andrew, 11th Duke of Devonshire (formerly Marquess of Hartington)

brother’s death and

Kick’s courtship by

Kick’s death and

marriage of

military service by

Parliamentary run by

sibling rivalry and

social ascendancy of

Cavendish, Anne

Cavendish, Billy.
See
Hartington, William Cavendish, Marquess of

Cavendish, Deborah Mitford, Marchioness of Hartington (“Debo”)

Kick’s death and

marriage of

social ascendancy of

Cavendish, Elizabeth

Cavendish, Emma

Cavendish, Kathleen Kennedy.
See
Hartington, Kathleen, Marchioness of

Cavendish, Lord Charles

Cavendish, Lord “Dick”

Cavendish, Pamela Lloyd Thomas

Cavendish, Peregrine

Cavendish, Richard

Cavendish, Sir William

Cazalet, Peter

Cecil, David

Cecil, Dicky

Cecil, Lord Hugh “Linky”

Cecil, Robert

Chamberlain, Neville

Munich Agreement and

Channon, Chips

Churchill, Clarissa

Churchill, Clementine

Churchill, Mary

Churchill, Pam

Churchill, Randolph

Churchill, Winston

appeasement policy and

Iron Curtain speech by

political party opposition and

war strategies of

Clive, Archer

Coldstream Guards.
See also
British Expeditionary Forces

Armored Division

Fifth Battalion

Military Crosses awarded to

Third Battalion

Coleman, Zeke

Colquhoun, Ivar

Columbia University School of Journalism, New York City

Common Wealth Party (UK)

communism

Conservative Party (UK)

Cooper, Duff

Cowley, Jim

Coxe, Betty

Craig House Hospital, Beacon, New York

Cranborne, Lady

Cranborne, Lord

Cripps, Violet

Cunard, Emerald

Curley, James M.

Czechoslovakia, invasion of

The Daily Telegraph

Derby, Earl of

Devonshire, Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of.
See
Cavendish, Andrew, 11th Duke of Devonshire

Devonshire, Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of (“Eddy”)

death of

Kick’s death and

Kick’s relationship with

political leadership and

son’s death and

Devonshire, Evelyn, Dowager Duchess of (“Evie”)

Devonshire, Georgiana, Duchess of

Devonshire, Mary Alice, Duchess of (“Moucher”)

Kick’s death and

Kick’s relationship with

son’s death and

Devonshire, Victor, 9th Duke of

“Did You Happen to See…” (newspaper column)

Douglas-Home, William

Douglas, Lewis

Douglas, Sharman

Driberg, Tom

Duncannon, Viscount

Eden, Anthony

Kick’s courtship by

Eden, Beatrice

Edward VII, King (of UK)

Egerton, Tom

Elizabeth, Queen (of UK)

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Fejos, Paul

Feversham, Anne

Field, Patsy

Finch College, New York City

Fitzmaurice, Ned

FitzRoy, Anne

FitzRoy, Edward

FitzRoy, Mary

Fitzwilliam, Earl (7th)

Fitzwilliam, Earl Peter (8th)

death of

Kick’s courtship by

Fitzwilliam, Obby

Fleming, Ann

Fleming, Ian

Foreign Intelligence Branch, US Division of Naval Intelligence

Fraser, Hugh

election to Parliament by

King and Country resolution and

Fraser, Veronica

Frederick, Prince (of Prussia)

Frost, Winston

Garnham, Bill

George VI, King (of UK)

George Washington University Hospital, Washington, D.C.

Germany/Nazis.
See also
World War II

Austria invasion by

Battle of Britain by

Battle of Flanders by

Battle of Heppen by

Battle of Normandy by

Belgium/France invasion by

Czechoslovakia invasion by

Munich agreement with

Poland invasion by

Rhineland invasion by

Russia invasion by

SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend, 12th Unit of

surrender of

U.S. relations with

Godfrey, William

Goebbels, Joseph

Gore, Arthur “Boofy”

Gore, Fiona

Gort, Lord

Grace, J. Peter

Grace, W. R.

Haig, Earl Dawyck

Haig, Rene

Halifax, Lord

Hambleden, Lady