![]() On 22 May, she boarded the ritzy SS United States steamer – the largest ocean liner ever constructed in America – just days after her boyfriend, Senator Kennedy, had seriously broached the subject of marriage for the first time. ![]() Jackie had travelled around Europe for the first time with Aileen’s younger sister Helen in 1948, and jumped at the chance to do some on-the-ground reporting, promptly pitching and getting sign off on the idea from her managing editor Sidney Epstein. Rather than a standard assignment from the paper, the trip had been proposed by her friend Aileen Bowdoin’s mother, who thought that a girls’ trip might cheer Aileen up following her recent divorce. Eight years earlier, she had been one of the 40,000 Americans who visited London for the Queen’s Coronation in her role as The Washington Times-Herald’s “Inquiring Camera Girl” – sending home regular dispatches about both the Mayfair society set and the patriotic fervour that swept through the city in the run up to 2 June 1953. ![]() In the summer of 1961, seven months after her husband moved into the Oval Office, Jackie Kennedy joined JFK at Buckingham Palace for a dinner given by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, floating through the gilded state rooms in an ice-blue Chez Ninon gown and elbow-length gloves. ![]()
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