In 1953, shortly before becoming engaged to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, press photographer Jacqueline Bouvier travelled to London to cover the Queen’s coronation for an American newspaper. She interviewed members of the public, who were waiting outside Buckingham Palace for a glimpse of the Royal Family, and even asked if they thought Elizabeth II would be Britain’s last queen.
The young journalist was just one of millions watching history take place that day. Could she ever have imagined she would return to the Palace just a few years later, on the arm of the 35th President of the United States? Or that following his tragic assassination, 60 years ago this November, she and her children would be comforted by Her Majesty and the Duke of Edinburgh?
The Kennedys were megastars on the international
