Lee Radziwill
Caroline Lee Radziwill (born March 3, 1933 in Southampton on Long Island as Caroline Lee Bouvier , † February 15, 2019 in New York City ) was an American interior designer , actress and author . She was the younger sister of the former First Lady of the United States, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis , and thus the sister-in-law of President John F. Kennedy . Her niece Caroline Bouvier Kennedy is named after her.
biography
Caroline Lee Bouvier was the second daughter of the stockbroker John Vernou Bouvier III and his wife Janet Norton Lee. The Bouvier family has French roots. Lee is named for her maternal grandfather, James T. Lee. The parents divorced in 1940; the mother married in 1943 the investment banker Hugh D. Auchincloss. As a result, the two Bouvier daughters had several half-siblings and step-siblings. They moved from New York to northern Virginia .
In 1951, 18-year-old Lee went on a trip through Europe with her sister Jackie, who was three and a half years older. They met the art historian Bernard Berenson , who, among other things, aroused Lee's interest in art. During the trip, the sisters wrote a kind of diary with drawings. In the 1970s they decided together to publish the travel diary One Special Summer . Upon her return to the States, Lee worked as a reporter for the Washington Times-Herald before studying at Vassar College . However, she dropped out to work as Diana Vreeland 's assistant at Harper's Bazaar .
In April 1953 she married Michael Temple Canfield, with whom she lived in London. Here she met from the Polish noble family Radziwiłł originating Stanislaw Albrecht Radziwill (Prince Radziwill) , whom she married in March 1959 after their first marriage divorced and had been annulled by the Catholic Church. The two children Lee Radziwills, Anthony and Anna Christina Radziwill come from this second marriage . Lee worked closely with Italian interior designer Renzo Mongiardino to furnish her two residences in London and Turville .
During the presidency of her brother-in-law John F. Kennedy 1961–63, Lee accompanied her sister Jackie several times and during her pregnancy also accompanied the president on state visits, for example at Kennedy's famous " Ich bin ein Berliner " speech. During this time she also met the Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis , who later married her sister. After Kennedy's murder, Lee moved into an apartment near her sister in New York, which she in turn furnished with Mongiardino's help. She wrote fashion and culture articles for Ladies' Home Journal . She also befriended Truman Capote , who urged her to act. Despite great public interest, she was unsuccessful as an actress. Her lead role in the play The Philadelphia Story (1967) was panned. Her title role in the remake of the Otto Preminger film Laura (1968) received negative reviews. Lee then gave up acting.
Lee had a relationship with the photographer Peter Beard , which broke up his marriage to Radziwill; she was divorced in 1974. With Beard and Capote, Lee accompanied the Rolling Stones' North American tour in 1972 . She worked as an interior designer, made plans for a TV talk show ("Conversations with Lee Radziwill"), and started jotting down her memories. A film that she and Beard planned about the childhood of the Bouvier sisters with their aunt Edith Ewing Bouvier and their daughter Edith Bouvier Beale did not materialize, but the resulting material was used by Göran Olsson in the 2017 documentary That Summer . The brothers David and Albert Maysles shot the documentary Gray Gardens about their aunt's estate , which was later accompanied by a successful musical.
In September 1988 Lee Radziwill married the American choreographer and film director Herbert Ross . The marriage ended in divorce in 2001, just before Ross died. Radziwill died in her Manhattan apartment; The memorial service was held at Thomas More Church in New York City; among the mourners were Caroline Kennedy , Carole Radziwill, Marc Jacobs , Tory Burch , Sofia Coppola , Carolina Herrera , Peter Beard and Deeda Blair.
literature
Publications by Lee Radziwill
- Lee , foreword by Peter Beard , Assouline Publishing 2015, ISBN 978-1614284697 (English)
- Happy Times , Assouline Publishing 2001, ISBN 978-2843232503 (English)
- One Special Summer , Jacqueline and Lee Bouvier, Rizzoli 2006 (originally published 1974), ISBN 978-0847827879 (English)
Publications on Lee Radziwill
- Diana Dubois: In Her Sisterʼs Shadow: An Intimate Biography of Lee Radziwill , Little Brown & Co. 1995, ISBN 978-0316187534 (English)
Web links
- Lee Radziwill in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lee Radziwill in the Internet Movie Database , see web links (English)
- ↑ a b Lee Radziwill at Munzinger
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Sam Kashner: The Complicated Sisterhood of Jackie Kennedy and Lee Radziwill . Vanity Fair (magazine) , April 26, 2016 (English)
- ↑ Amy Nicholson: That Summer: the story behind the 'other' Gray Gardens documentary
- ↑ Alfons Kaiser: Lee Radziwill: Jackie Kennedy's sister died . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed January 3, 2020]).
- ↑ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6742895/Style-icon-Lee-Radziwill-laid-rest-invite-funeral-service.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Radziwill, Lee |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bouvier, Caroline Lee (maiden name); Canfield, Caroline Lee (first married name); Radziwill, Caroline Lee (second married name); Ross, Caroline Lee (third married name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American interior designer, actress, and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Southampton |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th February 2019 |
| Place of death | New York City |