Lee and her sister Jackie Kennedy Onassis, who became First Lady of the United States as the wife of President John F. July 1967.’Īt the time, she was unaware of the content of the novel, which eventually saw her end her friendship with the author. It was inscribed with: ‘To my Answered Prayer, with love, Lee. When she learnt he was writing his new novel, Answered Prayers, she gifted him a gold-lined cigarette case. The New York Post reports she once said of the author: ‘I feel as if he’s my brother, except that brothers and sisters are rarely as close as we are.’ Lee died in 2019, aged 85, in New York City.Īs her friendship with Capote blossomed Lee confided in him about her rivalry with sister Jackie. Their union lasted 13 years and they split in 2001, just months before his death. She married a third time to film director Herbert Ross in 1988. Lee, then 26, lived in London with Prince Radziwill, where she insisted on being addressed as ‘Princess’ Lee Radziwill, even though her husband surrendered his royal status when he took British nationality in 1951.Īdopting the name ‘Her Serene Royal Highness’, the pair had two children together, before they divorced in 1974. After her first marriage to Michael Canfield collapsed, she married Prince Stanisław Albrecht Radziwill, a Polish aristocrat, in 1959. She boasted an exclusive list of close friends, from Andy Warhol to Truman Capote, and worked briefly as an actress before turning her hand to interior design and public relations.įor a time, the social doyenne was also an American ‘Princess’. Guest, she got them: houses, with gardens galore, in Old Westbury, Middleburg and Palm Beach.’Īctress Calista Flockhart is set to play the younger sister of Jackie Kennedy in the upcoming series of the showīorn Caroline Lee Bouvier in New York in 1933 to Janet Norton Lee and New York stockbroker and socialite John Vernou Bouvier III, Lee came from a famous family but established herself as a noteworthy figure in her own right. However when she settled down to marry Winston, it appeared Capote was unimpressed, penning: ”Oh, it must have been fun – but at heart she was too conservative, too countrified for all that – she needed a home and a husband and dogs and horses and children (in that order) and flower gardens and vegetable gardens and when she met the right man, the very massive but very gentle Winston F.C. In fact, the 1947 wedding took place at the home of Ernest Hemingway, who was the best man. was married to polo champion Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, the son of British politician Frederick Guest (and a relative of Sir Winston Churchill), in a lavish ceremony in Havana, Cuba. ‘Who,’ wrote Capote, ‘could have imagined that lurking inside this cool vanilla lady was a madcap, laughing tomboy? Well, I suppose anyone who knew her background: a trimly, tautly brought up Boston girl, the daughter of a Brahmin, she left society for stage, films and, finding no satisfaction there, went adventuring in Mexico, where Diego Rivera painted her, aged 22, as a honey-haired odalisque desnuda, a famous portrait that, according to legend, adorned a bar in Mexico City.’Ĭ. No jewelry, not much makeup just blanc de blanc perfection.’ ‘Her hair, parted in the middle and paler than Dom Perignon, was but a shade darker than the dress she was wearing, a Mainbocher column of white crepe de chine. Guest, shimmering in the blue smoky light, was one of the latter. – at the opening of My Fair Lady in New York.Ĭapote wrote: ‘As Raymond Chandler remarked of his femme fatale in ‘The Long Goodbye’: ‘There are blondes, and then there are blondes.’ Mrs. She was a stage actress who became well known for her sense of style, and was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1959.Ĭapote, in his introduction to her book, described the first time he ever saw C.Z.
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