Auchincloss was incapable of impregnating Mrs. Janet was 37 Hugh was 58, and had had three children by two previous wives.
The big reveal, according to his publisher’s press release, is that (supposedly) their mother, Janet Auchincloss, performed do-it-yourself artificial insemination in order to get pregnant twice after she divorced their father and married her second husband, Hugh D. Spoiler alert: He adores Jackie and abhors Lee. He wrote “After Camelot” in 2012 and, six years later, he now presents “Jackie, Janet and Lee: The Secrets of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Janet Auchincloss and Lee Radziwill.” In 2000, he wrote “Jackie, Ethel and Joan: The Women of Camelot,” which became a two-part series on CBS-TV in 2001. Randy Taraborrelli, who’s been mining two of those three veins for the last 20 years. If you wrote “How JFK made love to Marilyn Monroe on 150 calories a day,” you’d have an instant success. (Jan.Nothing sells like books on sex, diets and the Kennedys. Taraborrelli’s gossipy narrative revels in luxurious decor, stunning outfits, and soap-operatic fights (“Janet just hauled off and slapped her daughter across the face, twice”) in this entertaining saga of how wealthy, fashionable women got that way. and Aristotle Onassis (after wrestling him away from an affair with Radziwill-always the lesser marital strategist-and negotiating a $5 million prenuptial payment for her hand).
Auchincloss’s battle between heart and head-she married first a charming, virile womanizer, then a stolid, impotent plutocrat to secure her finances-laid the template for her daughters: Kennedy Onassis rehashed it by rejecting merely affluent suitors (usually at her mother’s insistence) to marry into the “real money” of charming, womanizing J.F.K. Taraborrelli ( Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot) traces the fraught relationship between First Lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis and her rivalrous celebrity sister Lee Radziwill as they dueled for popularity, men, and the approval of their mother Janet Auchincloss, an imperious matriarch who manipulated them as sternly as Joseph P.
A formidable mother teaches her daughters to rise in the world by putting cold calculation before romance in this canny family portrait.
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