Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter (40 page)

Hans Crescent Club, London

Hardwick, Bess of

Harlech, Lord

Harriman, Averell

Hartington, Kathleen, Marchioness of (“Kick”) (formerly Kathleen Kennedy)

Berry’s courtship of

burial place of

Cavendish’s courtship of

death of

Eden’s courtship of

education of

father’s relationship with

Fitzwilliam’s courtship of

Frost’s courtship of

Hartington’s courtship of

husband’s death and

journalistic ambitions of

Kennedy, Jack, relationship with

Kennedy, Joe Jr., death and

Kennedy, Joe Jr., relationship with

Lloyd, Jean, friendship with

marriage of

mother’s relationship with

physical characteristics of

political ambition of

Red Cross service by

religious observation by

societal debut of

speeches given by

White’s courtship of

Wood’s relationship with

Hartington, William Cavendish, Marquess of (“Billy”) (formerly Earl of Burlington)

death of

Kick’s courtship by

Kick’s marriage to

military service by

Norton’s engagement to

Parliament campaign by

religious observation by

sibling rivalry/competition and

Harvard University

Heppen, Belgium

Hillman, William

Hill, Roddy

Hiroshima, Japan

Hitler, Adolf.
See also
Germany/Nazis; World War II

Munich agreement with

Holderness, Lord Richard (formerly Richard Wood)

Hollis, Christopher

Home Guard (UK).
See also
British Expeditionary Forces

House of Commons

1944 West Derbyshire by-election

1945 General Election

Howard, Mark

Hunloke, Anne

Hunloke, Henry

Iron Curtain speech (Churchill)

Japan

Pearl Harbor bombing by

WW II surrender by

Kennedy, Bobby (brother)

Kennedy, Eunice (sister)

England visit by

Kick’s death and

Kennedy, Jean (sister)

Kennedy, John F. “Jack” (brother)

Arvad’s courtship by

Bouvier’s courtship by

competitiveness and

congressional service by

education of

health of

Kick’s death and

Kick’s relationship with

military service by

mother’s relationship with

political ambitions of

Why England Slept
by

Kennedy, Joseph P., Jr. (brother)

competitiveness and

death of

education of

Kick’s relationship with

military service by

mother’s relationship with

political ambition of

Kennedy, Joseph P., Sr. (father)

children’s competitiveness and

Hartington, Billy, death and

Joe Jr.’s death and

Kick’s death and

Kick’s relationship with

marital infidelity by

military service and

nepotism/career guidance by

war appeasement in UK and

war involvement by U.S. and

Kennedy, Kathleen.
See
Hartington, Kathleen, Marchioness of

Kennedy, Pat (sister)

Kennedy, Rose (mother)

Hartington, Billy, death and

Joe Jr.’s death and

Kick’s death and

Kick’s relationship with

marital infidelity and

religious observation by

Kennedy, Rosemary (sister)

institutionalization of

societal debut of

Kennedy, Teddy (brother)

Kent, Duchess of

Kent, Duke of

Kenyon-Slaney, Jane

King and Country resolution (UK)

King, John

King, Mackenzie

King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (UK).
See also
British Expeditionary Forces

King’s Royal Rifle Corps (UK).
See also
British Expeditionary Forces

Koch de Gooreynd, Gerry

Korda, Alexander

Krock, Arthur

Labor Party (UK)

“Lady Hartington’s salon”

Lansdowne, Charlie, 7th Marquess of

Lascelles, Tommy

Laycock, Angie

Laycock, Robert

Lees-Milne, James

Levens Hall, England

Liberal Party (UK)

Lloyd, David, 2nd Baron Lloyd of Dolobran

Lloyd, Jean Ogilvy

birthday celebration of

Hartington, Billy, friendship with

Kick’s death and

Kick’s friendship with

Lothian, Philip

Loughborough, Tony.
See
Rosslyn, Earl Tony

Lovat, Lady

Luard, B. E. “Buster”

Luftwaffe (German Air Force).
See also
Germany/Nazis

Macdonald, Torby

Macmillan, Harold

Macmillan, Lady Dorothy

Maginot Line (WW II)

Manhattan
(cruise liner)

Marlborough, Duke of

Matthew, James

McDonnell, Anne

McDonnell, Charlotte

McDonnell, James F

Mead, George

Military Cross decorations (UK)

Mitford, Debo.
See
Cavendish, Deborah Mitford, Marchioness of Hartington

Mitford, Jessica

Mitford, Nancy

Mitford, Unity

Montgomery, Sir Bernard

Mosley, Diana Mitford

Mosley, Max

Mosley, Sir Oswald

Mountbatten, Lady Louis

Munich Agreement

Murrow, Edward R.

Nagasaki, Japan

New York Herald Tribune

The New York Times

Normandy, France

Norton, Sally

Offie, Carmel

Ogilvy, Jean.
See
Lloyd, Jean Ogilvy

Ogilvy, Margaret “Maggot”

Operation Bluecoat (WW II)

Operation Epsom (WW II)

Operation Goodwood (WW II)

Operation Overlord (WW II)

Ormsby-Gore, David

Ormsby-Gore, Gerard

Ormsby-Gore, Sissie Lloyd Thomas

Oxford Union

Paris, liberation of (WW II)

partial nuclear test ban treaty of 1963 (U.S.-Soviet)

Patterson, Cissy

Pearl Harbor attack, Hawaii

Phony War.
See also
World War II

Pius XII, Pope

Poland, invasion of

Portal, Charles

Potsdam Conference, Germany

primogeniture

Queen Elizabeth
(cruise liner)

Queen Mary
(cruise liner)

Red Cross, Kick’s work with

Redesdale, Lady

Redesdale, Lord

Richman, Harry

Robert the Bruce, King (of Scotland)

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Kennedy, Joe Sr., appointment by

WW II and

Rosslyn, Earl Tony (formerly Tony Loughborough)

Rothermere, Viscount

Royal Air Force (UK).
See also
British Expeditionary Forces

Russia.
See
Soviet Union

Rutland, Duke of

Salisbury, 3rd Marquess of

Salisbury, 4th Marquess of

Salisbury, Lady Alice, Marchioness of

Sandys, Duncan

Shinwell, Manny

Shriver, Sargent

Soviet Union

as communist threat

German invasion of

German nonaggression pact with

partial nuclear test ban treaty of 1963 by

Spalding, Charles “Chuck”

Spellman, Francis

Spencer-Churchill, Sarah

Squirting Tree, Derbyshire

SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend, 12th Unit of.
See also
Germany/Nazis

Stalin, Joseph

Stanley, Lord John

Stanley, Oliver

Stratheden, Lord

Stuart, James

Stuart, Rachel

Sykes, Lady Virginia Gilliat

Sykes, Sir Richard

Talbot, Edward Keble

Thomas, Sissie Lloyd.
See
Ormsby-Gore, Sissie Lloyd Thomas

Trafford, Ann de

Twilight War.
See also
World War II

United Kingdom (UK)

appeasement policy in

armed forces of

political/cultural shifts in

primogeniture in

V-E Day in

World War II entrance by

United States (U.S.)

partial nuclear test ban treaty of 1963 by

Pearl Harbor bombing in

war participation by

United States Navy

Kennedy, Jack, in

Kennedy, Joe Jr., in

Navy Cross decoration in

University of Leeds

U.S. Airborne Division, 82nd

V-1 buzz bombs (doodlebugs)

the Vatican

Victoria, Queen (of UK)

Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day)

Waldrop, Frank

Ward, Eric (Earl of Dudley)

Ward, Laura

Washington
(cruise liner)

Washington Times Herald

Waugh, Evelyn

Wentworth Woodhouse

Wernher, Gina

West Derbyshire by-election of 1944 (UK)

Whig Party (UK)

White, Alderman Charles

White, John

Whitney, Jock

Why England Slept
(Kennedy)

Willkie, Wendell

Willoughby, James

Wilson, Pat

Winchell, Walter

Windsor, Duchess of

Windsor, Duke of

Woman’s Home Companion

Women’s Institute, Derbyshire

Women’s Royal Naval Service (UK)

Women’s Voluntary Service (UK)

Wood, Charles

Wood, Peter

Wood, Richard.
See
Holderness, Lord Richard

World War I (WW I) (1914–1918)

World War II (WW II) (1939–1945)

African Front in

appeasement policy prior to

Austria invasion and

Battle of Britain in

Battle of El Alamein in

Battle of Flanders in

Battle of Heppen in

Battle of Normandy in

Brussels’ liberation in

casualty statistics for

Czechoslovakia invasion preceding

Maginot Line in

Operation Bluecoat in

Operation Epsom in

Operation Goodwood in

Operation Overlord in

Paris’s liberation in

Pearl Harbor’s bombing in

Poland’s invasion in

Potsdam Conference post-

Rhineland’s invasion preceding

Russia’s invasion in

surrender of Germany in

surrender of Japan in

UK’s/France’s entry into

U.S. neutrality
v.
entry into

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Kick’s story is also the story of a vanished world. It is a story based most crucially on the memories, letters, diaries, and annotated scrapbooks of the major players themselves. By chance, as Debo Devonshire often reminded me, I was fortunate to begin my journey into this story and the world of the aristocratic cousinhood at a moment when a number of the key players were still alive and willing and able to share their memories, insights, and questions—for their questions were also important. Had I come to the story now, it would have been too late.

I could not have written this book without the two people on the stairs with Kick at Cliveden that long-ago Easter weekend of 1938. Jean Lloyd not only decoded the rules and personalities of the cousinhood for Kick in those years, but she then did the same for me in marathon conversations over the course of months and months. At Clouds Hill, she fed me “pickup lunches” and explained a world that was to her simply nature but that was to me as utterly foreign as it had once been to Kick. She took me to Hatfield House; she introduced me to Fiona and insisted I come with her to one of their lunches at Pimlico House, where Kick and Billy used to escape together during the war, to listen in while the two spoke with the intimacy that lifelong friends do of the Little American Girl and her dreams and ambitions. And when Jean found her daily diaries of the period, she went through them with me day by day, explaining the entries, detailing the personalities involved, answering my questions. It was, needless to say, the sort of gift for which a biographer lives.

Andrew Devonshire, the 11th Duke of Devonshire, invited me to Chatsworth and gave me the inspiration for not one, but two books—this one and what became a book about Winston Churchill. I hope that in some small way I have been able to convey the significance of some of the things he told me. He was a remarkable man, the last of his kind. As Jean, who adored her cousin Andrew, liked to laugh: “He wanted to be an eighteenth-century rake.” Perhaps he was—but he was also much more: a man of enormous intelligence, an extraordinary conversationalist, and a deeply complicated human being.

Debo Devonshire, Andrew’s duchess, was not at Cliveden that first weekend when Kick appeared, but she was a central figure in my research for this story. No one has ever been more generous with a writer than Debo was with me—not just on this book, but on my biography of Kick’s brother Jack and then on my book about Winston Churchill. Debo had long been a celebrated duchess when I met her, but as I came to know her, I came to understand that although it was never as painful for her as it was for Andrew to live his brother’s life, it was not without pain for Debo to share what might have been Kick’s. Debo was also later a great friend of Kick’s brother when he was president, and from Jack she had crucial understandings of Kennedy family dynamics that she shared with me.