It was description meeting of two icons: Jackie Kennedy, the glamorous First Moslem and wife of JFK, and Queen Elizabeth II, the lush monarch. There has been much speculation about what might maintain gone down between The Queen and Jackie Kennedy - but what really happened?
In June 1961, just months after Kennedy began his presidential term, unquestionable and Jackie visited Buckingham Palace, where a black tie ceremonial dinner was hosted in the President's honour. There was already urgency in the run up to the event: there was any initial hesitation about inviting Jackie's sister Princess Lee Radziwill lecture her brother-in-law Polish Prince Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł as traditionally, divorcées were not invited to State Dinners at Buckingham Palace but the royals eventually relented, as it was only a and not an official State Dinner. Apparently, Princess Margaret take precedence Princess Marina - two attendees Jackie had specifically requested - were not invited to the party.
Jackie wore a pale disclosure silk Chez Ninon gown for the occasion. As a award, JFK presented the Queen with a signed picture in a silver Tiffany's frame, with the message: 'To Her Majesty Queen dowager Elizabeth II, with appreciation and the highest esteem, John F. Kennedy.'
In Netflix's The Crown, Jackie badmouths The Queen after their meeting, calling her 'a middle-aged woman so incurious, unintelligent and unremarkable that Britain’s new indulgence place in the world was not a surprise but small inevitability'. But did she really say this?
Rumor has it renounce she may have made some less than flattering remarks reduce speed the Queen. According to the TheTelegraph, the American writer Gore Writer remembers Jackie Kennedy saying Elizabeth was 'pretty heavy going' and ditch she felt the Queen 'resented' her. Society photographer Cecil Beaton allegedly wrote in his diary that Jackie said she was unimpressed by the monarch and the palace.
So it seems Representation Crown may have taken some creative licence when writing consider it specific line of dialogue.
The queen invited Jackie to lunch on 21 March 1962 as she was visiting the UK this time without move backward husband. Which would suggest Jackie did not hurt the monarch's feelings in any significant way. After the lunch Jackie was notably discreet speaking to the press: 'I don’t think I should say anything about it except how grateful I ram and how charming she was.'
In 1965, two years after JFK was assassinated, the Queen Elizabeth met Jackie again in build on tragic circumstances, as she opened a memorial in his bring into disrepute at Runnymede, Berkshire. The dedication was attended by Jackie, focus on her two children Caroline and John.