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...It was very Texan meets Marie Antoinette....
...The biopic I really thought was terrific was Jackie, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, which again, takes a very, very short period of, you know, sort of a week or something, you know, after the Kennedy assassination...
...Which two-word phrase for a political party or movement with a wide spectrum of views was first used about the Democrats under John F Kennedy?...
...That provenance, we were jokingly saying, “Is there a more grand provenance than Marie Antoinette? What about Cleopatra?”...
...Bruce Willis and his daughter Scout, Alain Delon and his daughter Anouchka, Robert F Kennedy and his daughter Kyra were among those who waltzed in the glamorous Marie Antoinette suite overlooking the Place...
...Its king was Louis XV — handsome, shy, athletic, amorous — and for 20 years Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, who became Marquise de Pompadour, was his mistress....
...His first marriage was to Jean Saltonstall, a fellow upper-crust Bostonian, and his second was to Antoinette Pinchot, whose sister was married to Cord Meyer, the CIA luminary....
...Caroline Weber is author of ‘Queen of Fashion: What Marie-Antoinette Wore to the Revolution’...
...Mrs Obama has also made more than a passing reference to Mrs Kennedy in her adoption of shift dresses and big pearls during the campaign, says Ms Weber....
...Obama has responded by modelling herself on a far less frightening 1960s figure: Jacqueline Kennedy....
...Kennedy Jonathan Cape £16.99, 288 pages FT bookshop price: £13.59 The darkly funny tale of Alfred Day, a young RAF gunner who finds purpose, a sense of identity and peer camaraderie when fighting the...
...Kennedy Jonathan Cape £16.99, 279 pages FT bookshop price: £13.59 Kennedy takes on a second world war RAF airman. The protagonist is engaging, but it’s the author’s style that mesmerises....
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