John F. Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessett: Love and Death of US 1990's Beloved Couple
'01.09.2019'
Source: Culturology
They came from different worlds, but had every chance to live a long and happy life. The fate of John Kennedy Jr. was monitored by the whole country. Thousands of women fell in love with him, without exaggeration, but only a few could count on reciprocity. Acquaintance with Carolyn Bessett put an end to numerous novels of the “son of America”, and the wedding turned the famous womanizer into an exemplary family man. But the happiness of this couple was very short and not at all cloudless.
He was born 16 days after his dad, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected President of the United States, writes Culturology. And three years later, the whole country cried, looking at John Kennedy Jr., who saluted at the tomb of his deceased father.
Since then, close attention of the press has been riveted to the boy. All attempts by Jacqueline Kennedy to protect their children from camera flashes were in vain. In 1968, Jacqueline married the Greek billionaire Aristotle Onassis, and after seven years she was again widowed.
John Kennedy Jr. did not continue the family tradition and instead of Harvard entered Brown University in Rhode Island. After graduating, Kennedy Jr. again sat on the student bench, this time at the School of Law at New York University. This is not to say that jurisprudence came easily to him. He did not pass the qualification exam twice and received the status of a lawyer only on the third attempt.
From his student years, John acquired the fame of the conqueror of ladies' hearts. Classmate Christina Haag, Christiane Amanpour, Madonna and Daryl Hannah are just the girls John knew about his relationship. However, he was credited with romances with Julia Roberts and Melanie Griffith, and even news appeared in the yellow press about John's secret meetings with Princess Diana.
But one day he met Carolyn Bessett. No, all the other women did not cease to exist for him on the same day, and a full-fledged romance began only after a year.
White Plains Cinderella
She was born in White Plains, in the family of a simple carpenter and a school academic administrator. She studied at Juniper Hill School, and then at St. Mary's School. After receiving secondary education, she entered school at Boston University and began to dream about a modeling career.
Carolyn Bessett’s podium did not submit, and her highest achievement in this field was the appearance on the cover of the university calendar. After graduating from high school, Carolyn did not want to say goodbye to her dream of working in the fashion world. The girl joined the Calvin Klein store in Boston. Starting her career as a regular salesperson, Katherine Bessett was already marketing director at the largest Calvin Klein store in Manhattan by the time she met John Kennedy Jr. and personally worked with important brand customers, which John Kennedy certainly also belonged to. -younger.
Acquaintance with John at first did not portend anything serious: at that time he was experiencing a stormy romance with Daryl Hannah, and she herself did not expect to win the heart of the most enviable bachelor of the United States. There were always recognized beauties next to him, and she was not distinguished by equally bright beauty, and communication with the Prince of America was limited to help in the selection of costumes.
But in 1993, John Kennedy Jr. drew attention to a girl with an impeccable sense of style, good manners and a radiant smile. It seems that next to her he had a chance for the simplest earthly happiness.
As soon as a new girl appeared next to John Kennedy Jr., the paparazzi almost began to chase the couple. John got used to such attention and was not at all burdened by camera flashes and the appearance of photographs in newspapers. And the cat Carolyn was seriously excited. It is unlikely that she dreamed that her every step was captured for history.
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But she was in love and happy, especially since Kennedy Jr. was just as passionately in love and infinitely tender with his lover. He soon introduced Carolyn to his uncle Robert Kennedy. A year after the beginning of the novel, her beloved girl moved to John’s loft in Tribeca and soon was his official bride.
Short-lived happiness
Carolyn Bessett hardly believed that he would become the wife of John F. Kennedy Jr. What she did not doubt was the sincerity of the feelings of a loved one. They were married on 21 of September 1996 of the year in an atmosphere of strict secrecy. Candles were lit in a tiny wooden chapel on Cumberland Island in Georgia, and Carolyn spoke the words of the oath in a trembling voice. The bride was beautiful in a pearl white dress from Narciso Rodriguez. The bridegroom did not hide his feelings either, looking lovingly at the woman whom he had just called before God his wife.
After returning home, at the threshold of the newlyweds, as usual recently, photographers waited, and the newly made husband kindly asked them to let Carolyn get used to her new status and increased attention to her person. True, his request was not particularly taken into account. The paparazzi accompanied the couple almost 24 hours a day: in a restaurant where the couple liked to have dinner, in a shopping center while shopping, while walking around the city.
John Kennedy Jr. did not pay any attention to the escort, but Carolyn ... She was spoiled, irritated and even sometimes allowed herself to quarrel with her husband right under the gunsight.
Soon rumors spread that serious problems were emerging in the family of Prince America. Carolyn refused any interviews even after she was declared a style icon. She quit Calvin Klein six months before her marriage to John, and she couldn’t get another job because of fear of accusations of using her husband’s fame.
However, later Bessett-Kennedy took up charity work, she appeared with pleasure at her social events and became the mistress of the parties that John hosted for his political magazine George.
But the problems in marriage grew like a snowball. Carolyn categorically refused to give birth to children. She was afraid that the children would feel the same discomfort as she herself, from the close attention of the press. She was increasingly depressed, and her husband's busyness made Carolyn feel completely alone.
However, the couple’s friends subsequently claimed that the couple was not going to get divorced. On the contrary, in the spring of 1999, they turned to a family relations specialist for help, and a few months later they visited Cardinal John O'Connor in the hope of preserving their family.
Interrupted flight
John Kennedy Jr. really did not want to fly to the wedding of his cousin Rory Kennedy. He was ready for Carolyn to fly to Martas Vinyard Island with his older sister Lauren. However, Rose-Marie Terencio, a colleague of Kennedy, quite reasonably remarked that John’s refusal to fly with his wife would cause a new wave of rumors in the press. If she could only imagine how that flight would end ...
On the evening of July 16 1999, a plane piloted by John Kennedy Jr. crashed off the coast of the very island where Rory Kennedy's wedding was to take place. According to the commission, the pilot lost control in poor visibility conditions. John, Carolyn and her older sister died. After 6 days, the ashes of all three were scattered over the Atlantic.
