THERE is still intense interest in Jacqueline Kennedy's personal life even two decades after her death, and as if to prove it, a newly discovered cache of her letters to a Catholic priest have been publicised and soon will be auctioned off.
The letters were written by the former first lady to her confidant, Joseph Leonard, a 73-year-old Irish priest, and give new insight into her personal joys and struggles.
While still a student at Vassar College in New York, Jacqueline Bouvier met Leonard in 1950 in Dublin, the Irish Times reported.
Their correspondence lasted until 1964, when he died.
There are 33 letters written by Kennedy, comprising a record of the years 1950-64 - the whole period of her marriage to John F Kennedy, her time as first lady and her grief following the death of her husband in 1963.
In one early letter, Jacqueline Kennedy worries even before they are married that he would be unfaithful to her.
"He's like my father in a way - loves the chase and is bored with the conquest - and once married needs proof he's still attractive, so flirts with other women and resents you," she wrote in 1952.
She met Kennedy when he was an ambitious 35-year-old congressman in Washington DC and she worked taking pictures for a newspaper column, according to the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
In a letter to Leonard, she admitted she was in love with the congressman 12 years her senior, however, she also voiced her doubts about the relationship, which was budding just as Kennedy was running for a seat in the US Senate.
"Maybe it will end very happily - or maybe since he's this old and set in his ways and cares so desperately about his career he just won't want to give up that much time to extra-curricular things like marrying me!" she wrote.
After Kennedy was elected senator in 1952, the couple wed the following September. On their first wedding anniversary, she wrote Leonard, "After a year, I love being married much more than I did even in the beginning."
After her move into he White House the intimate letters reveal her inner turmoil as she grieved the deaths of her third child, Patrick, who died shortly after birth, and her husband.
"I am so bitter against God," Kennedy wrote. "I think God must have taken Jack to show the world how lost we would be without him - but that is a strange way of thinking to me."
In a letter sent a few weeks later she wrote, "I feel more cruelly every day what I have lost - I always would have rather lost my life than lost Jack."
The letters are expected to be sold for well over STG1 million at auction in Ireland on June 11.
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