Jackie Kennedy teenage love letters up for auction
The adolescent musings of the girl who became Jackie Kennedy are disclosed in a series of love letters that are to be auctioned in the US next month.
The 20 notes were sent to R. Beverley Corbin, jr. – or, 'Bev' – a Harvard student with whom she enjoyed a long-distance romance from her room at Miss Porter's boarding school in Connecticut.
Dating from 1945 to 1947, they reveal what Christie's, the auction house, describes as a "funny, spirited and at times cynical young woman – one with great intelligence and a strong will of her own."
Penned after her parents had gone through a bitter divorce, and amid financial worries at home, they disclose the anguish Miss Bouvier felt at being trapped in what she described as her "prison".....