Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy, JFK’s Forgotten Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth
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The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever – and forgotten – Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history.The favourite child of Joe Kennedy and favourite sister of Jack, Kick Kennedy was spirited, vivacious and legendary for her charm. When the Kenndys sailed to Britain in 1938 she was presented as a debutante amid the pre-war social whirl of the British aristocracy. Here she met a shy, tall, handsome man called Billy, and, rebelling against family, faith, and country, soon married him. He was William Cavendish, heir to Chatsworth and the Duke of Devonshire, the most eligible bachelor in England. But their days of married bliss proved short, as war would bring tragedy and loss.Uncovering her spectacular life in full for the first time, Paula Byrne depicts a remarkable woman who bewitched the Churchills, Astors and Mitfords, and yet was almost erased from Kennedy family history.
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Paula Byrne. Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy, JFK’s Forgotten Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth
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CONTENTS
PROLOGUE. Kicking the Surf
1. Rose and Joe
2. A Beautiful and Enchanting Child
3. Forbidden Fruit
4. Hyannis Port
5. Bronxville
6. Convent Girl
7. Muckers and Trouble
8. Mademoiselle Pourquoi
9. Gstaad and Italy
10. Travels with my Mother: Russia and England
11. Politics and Europe Revisited
12. The Ambassador
13. At the Court of St James’s
14 ‘I Get a Kick Out of You’
15. The Debutante
16. Lords a-Leaping
17 ‘A Merry Girl’
18. Billy
19. The Riviera
20. Peace for our Time
21. Chatsworth
22. St Moritz and Rome
23. The Gathering Storm
24. The Last Hurrah
25 ‘This Country is at War with Germany’
26. The Personality Kids
27. Operation Ariel
28. The Fourth Hostage
29. Billy and Sally
30. Kick the Reporter
31. Lobotomy
32. Scandal
33 ‘Did You Happen to See …’
34. Red Cross Worker of World War II
35. Coffee and Doughnuts
36. Sister Kick
37. Girl on a Bicycle
38. Parties and Prayers
39. Rosemary Tonks
40. Agnes and Hartie
41. Telegrams and Anger
42 ‘I Love You More Than Anything in the World’
43. The Marchioness of Hartington
44. Operation Aphrodite
45. Billy the Hero
46 ‘Life is So Cruel’
47. The Widow Hartington
48. Politics or Passion?
49. Joy She Gave Joy She Has Found
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PICTURE SECTION
SOURCES
NOTES
INDEX
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ALSO BY PAULA BYRNE
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