Wen | wild away
During Kennedy's presidency, First Lady Jacqueline traveled abroad with her husband and sometimes took her sister Lee with her, and traveled to France, Germany, India and other countries.
In one of Lee's books called Happy Hour, she chronicles these pleasant and beautiful times and recalls her visit to France, in which Lee writes:
The weather was wonderful then, and Paris was the brightest at that time. What I felt in those days was happiness and pleasure... The French people welcomed us very well, it was a very special feeling.
Indeed, it is certainly happy to visit abroad with the president of the United States and enjoy top-notch treatment.
Later, president Kennedy was assassinated, and Lee flew from London to Washington for the first time, accompanied by his sister Jacqueline, comforted her and helped her deal with a series of aftermaths, and helped her take care of her two young children.
To encourage her sister to come out of the shadows of the affair as soon as possible, she would also put a note on Jacqueline's pillow, write some words of praise and encouragement for her sister, and express her love for her.
The sisterhood is deep and touching.
But in fact, these warm moments are the only ones of the sisters, one of the few happy times, throughout the lives of the sisters, most of them are spent in competition.
The open struggle and the secret fight have been all their lives, which is even more wonderful than the palace fight drama.
Lee Ratchevel was born in March 1933 to an upper-class family in New York State, the son of a stockbroker, a master of drinking and gambling, often out of the house, and innumerable debts.
Jacqueline is 4 years older than her sister Li, and the two sisters have been accustomed to comparing and competing since childhood under the guidance and influence of their gold-worshiping and vain mother.
From birth, because Jacqueline looks very much like her father, her skin color is dark, the eye distance is slightly wider, and her facial features are not three-dimensional enough, according to the traditional view, it is not beautiful.
But Jacqueline was very smart, and she was very good at learning, dancing, or equestrian, so her father and grandfather liked her very much.
The mother likes the relatively more beautiful Li, and in the mother's concept, looking beautiful is an advantage in itself, and it is easier to knock on the door of the upper class and the rich.
But this impression of the mother is not set in stone, and the fact is that in the future development of the two sisters, the mother's attitude is more like a wall of grass, both sides.
It is also in this way that Jacqueline and Lee often become each other's imaginary enemies.
From an early age, the mother was very strict with them, training two daughters according to the standards of famous women, letting them go to aristocratic schools to receive elite education, to learn various talents, and to demonstrate by example how to marry rich and powerful people.
All this seems to be the painstaking loneliness of motherhood, but looking deeply, all this of the mother is completely for her own selfishness, so she has worked hard to cultivate her two daughters, but let them fight for their own face.
As they get older, the differences between Jacqueline and Lee begin to widen.
Jacqueline is capable and independent, her "ambition" is to "not be a housewife", and Li's goal in life is to "find a husband with hundreds of millions of assets".
Although Lee is not bad in many ways, such as she can write and act, she can also design, she can also draw, and she is also an old friend of the Rolling Stones, and has participated in the band's tour.
These are hard currency, real talents, in terms of soft power, Li has a lot of high-quality human resources, senior government officials, celebrities and gentry, many of whom are her friends.
But Lee can't sink her heart into doing one or more of them well, and she's been looking for shortcuts to have a lot of wealth and supremacy faster.
To put it bluntly, these talents, in her opinion, are nothing more than bricks and stones on that shortcut.
After graduating from college, the contest between the two sisters really began.
After Jacqueline graduated, she knew an honest and loyal young man, because the other party was powerless and mediocre, and was originally engaged, jacqueline still repented.
Later, she met Kennedy, who had a bright future and a prominent background, and Jacqueline knew very well what she wanted, just kennedy could give, as to love or not, it was not so important.
At first, Kennedy was just a member of the House of Representatives, a small cadre, and later became a senator, and his status immediately rose several levels.
Look at Lee again, after learning that his sister had found Senate Kennedy, he had already chosen the person he wanted to marry, and the other party was the financially rich publisher Mike Confield.
In order to win the first head-on confrontation, Li, who is not yet 20 years old, married his sister in 5 months.
Can't wait to steal the limelight, and it can also be seen from this incident that compared to Jacqueline's concentration and strength, she can hold her breath, and Lee's rashness and impetuosity are vulnerable.
The first-time married object, the sisters are equal, if you seriously compare, Li's husband seems to be slightly better. This time, the sisters spent a rare time together in peace and quiet.
Later, Kennedy went further and further down the political road, and his ascension to the presidency was just around the corner.
Li's jealousy began to work again, if the brother-in-law really became president, then the sister is the first lady, which is the peak of power, how can he not be too shabby.
In this contest, marriage is nothing more than a bargaining chip.
If the chips in your hand are not enough to fight, then, change.
Lee divorced decisively and then found a Polish prince, Stas Lazivel, who was 19 years older than her.
Now, the title of princess, wealth and status, she has it, although it cannot be compared with her sister, but at least shortens the gap between the two people.
So one with the title of "First Lady" and the other with the hat of "Princess of Poland" lived in harmony and harmony, as mentioned earlier, following her sister and brother-in-law to visit abroad, which occurred during this period.
But underneath the calm cover, there was an undercurrent: Lee and his brother-in-law Kennedy had a scandal.
This makes the sister feel angry, although Kennedy is worried, but the husband and the sister are mixed together, the nature is completely different.
Digging the corner of her sister's wall, this time Lee did not do it kindly, of course, Jacqueline is not easy to mess with.
Jacqueline, who became a widow, is still like a frightened bird, panic, and Kennedy's 11-year marriage, even if there is no feelings, there is affection, witnessing the assassination of her husband, Jacqueline has also been greatly stimulated.
There is still a trace of affection between the sisters, perhaps to show off, and Lee invites Jacqueline to the ship of her lover, the Greek ship king Onassis.
Jacqueline lost her husband, and Lee's marriage began to shine red lights, because she was too able to spend money, although both husbands were rich, but they could not afford Li's thousands of dollars, and both complained that Li's poor and extravagant life would bankrupt himself.
Again, Lee's affair may not be lost compared to Kennedy's, and she has been committed to planting a green grassland for her husband.
She was friendly with New York lawyers, well-known architects, photographers and journalists, and so on, until she met on the former world's richest man, Onassis, and decided, and he was there.
In the final stages of Lee's marriage to the prince, they often quarreled, and once in anger, Lee said to her husband without words and hatred: I will soon be a person of Onassis.
However, the prince was not angry, and said meaningfully: Don't be happy too soon.
Sure enough, when taking his sister to on-Thenes' boat, the ship king not only saddled up and gave her a lot of jewelry.
His heart is clear, the scheming ship king will not be good to a woman for no reason, there must be a picture, yes, he wants to be Jacqueline was once the first lady of the United States noble status.
For the ship king of the rich and invincible country, the wealth is too much to use, and what he wants is to experience fresh excitement and enjoy the surprise and admiration of the eyes from all walks of life.
And Jacqueline is also eager to find a reliable and safe backer, the two people have their own needs, a hit, so "happy knot".
Jacqueline's horizontal knife snatches love, completely reducing the sisters' relationship to the freezing point.
Jacqueline died leaving a huge fortune, but there was no sister's name on the heir list, she said: "I'm sure she can understand."
Yes, even at the end of her life, Jacqueline thought that her own sister was just a friend.
It's all sad.
Lee's life is a life of constantly following her sister and trying to surpass her, Jacqueline's life is full of ups and downs, and Lee swings with Jacqueline's frequency.
But in any case, Jacqueline was luckier than her in many ways, and under her sister's powerful aura, she could only cool off in the shadows.
"A life without memories is not a life, so it is my choice to keep those memories of happy times."
Both sisters returned to the workforce in their later years, with Jacqueline becoming a consulting editor and Lee serving as a public relations executive for luxury brand Armani.
Only when I go around do I understand that relying on myself is the most reliable.
If you had understood earlier, the sisters might have had another world.