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Caroline Lee Bouvier was born on March 3, 1933 in New York to Janet Norton Lee and John Vernou "Black Jack" Bouvier III. She was the younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy. Caroline, called Lee after her maternal grandfather James Thomas Lee, lived in posh penthouse apartments until her parents split up when she was only a couple of years old. Several years after that her mother married Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, and she got two stepbrothers and a stepsister, as well as a half-brother and half-sister.

During her childhood, she attended boarding schools, including Miss Porter's, a famous boarding school which her sister had also attended. As a graduation present, Jackie took her on a trip to Europe for a summer before going to college. Around this time she met the man that she was to marry at age 20 in 1953, Michael Temple Canfield. That same year, the Canfields were best man and matron of honor at the marriage of Lee's sister Jackie to then-U.S. Senator (and future U.S. President) John F. Kennedy.

The Canfields moved to England were they lived for several years b

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Timeless Style: Lee Radziwill Remembered

I wrote a post about Lee Radziwill, American socialite and sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis just after she passed away on February 15th 2019. As a leading swan of the celebrated American novelist and screenwriter Truman Capote, Mrs Radziwill is played by Calista Flockhart in the new drama series Feud: Capote vs. The Swans on FX;Hulu. For those who missed it the first time around I thought it was worth a revisit of that earlier post.

Lee Radziwill, born Caroline Lee Bouvier passed away on Friday and I read the New York Times Obituary.  Not being familiar with the more intimate details of her life I found it quite a fascinating read.  This morning I read In Memoriam: Lee Radziwill on the Habitually Chic blog that gives a nuanced, life affirming portrayal accompanied by virtually a catalog of images.

Lee’s greatest claim to fame was of course as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s younger sister.  Growing up close to, but in the shadow of her much celebrated sister, she also endured a difficult and strained relationship

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Lee Radziwill

American socialite (1933–2019)

In this Slavic name, the surname is Radziwiłł, sometimes transliterated as Radziwill.

Caroline Lee Radziwiłł (/raˈd͡ʑiviw/; née Bouvier; March 3, 1933 – February 15, 2019), also previously known as Lee Canfield and Lee Ross, was an American socialite, public relations executive, and interior designer. She was the younger sister of former First LadyJacqueline Kennedy and sister-in-law of President John F. Kennedy.[1]

Early life and ancestry

Caroline Lee Bouvier was born at Doctors Hospital in Yorkville, Manhattan, New York City, to stockbroker John Vernou Bouvier III and his wife, socialite Janet Norton Lee.[2][3][a] She attended the Chapin School, in New York City, Potomac School in Washington, D.C., Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, and pursued undergraduate studies at Sarah Lawrence College.[5] In her birth announcement, and from her earliest years, she was known by her middle name "Lee" rather than "Caroline".

Career and fame

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