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February 14, 2012
JFK letters to Swedish sweetheart sold
Published: 5 Mar 10 14:02 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/25368/20100305/
Passionately tender correspondence written by John F Kennedy to his Swedish sweetheart has fetched more than $100,000 at an auction in the United States.
The letters and telegrams were sold by Gunilla von Post, now 78, described by Kennedy as my “Swedish flicka” (girl). An anonymous collector from the US west coast snapped up the loving lot from Legendary Auctions for $115,537.
The relationship started in 1953, just before Kennedy’s marriage, when he met the 21-year-old Swedish siren on the French Riviera. A “magical evening” with the 35-year-old Kennedy, then a senator, led to a series of 11 letters and three telegrams from him. The relationship was maintained, off and on, for five years.
In one letter, dated 1956, Kennedy writes that “I got word today – that my wife & sister are coming here. It will all be complicated the way I feel now – my Swedish flicka. All I have done is sit in the sun & look at the ocean & think of Gunilla… All love, Jack.”
In 1997, von Post wrote a book about the relationship, and spoke movingly of her American beau. She recalls being “flooded with warm feelings…his charismatic smile.”
They met for the last time in 1958 at the Paris Ball in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, and shared a final goodbye.
External link: Book details JFK affair with Pan Am Swede »
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' They met for the last time in 1958 at the Paris Ball in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, and shared a final goodbye. '
Oh I have no doubt they had quite a 'final goodbye' at the Waldorf.
Really Europe? this is your American hero? Do you even know what his policies were? Or is he just like your Obama? An enigma that shares your Democratic Party line?
He obviously fell in love with Gunilla von Post, but could not marry her because of his father's presidential ambitions for his son, obligíng him to marry well-placed Jackie, who he clearly didn't love - leading to a life of frustrated love.
Doesn't make him look like Tiger Woods at all, or have anything to be embarrassed about.