Happy 60’s Birthday John-John! We saw John and Jackie Kennedy in Season 2 Episode 8 of The Crown. Could we see JFK Jr. in an upcoming season?
It was 1995 when, literally, the two biggest paparazzi targets in the world successfully orchestrated a secret meeting. It’s pretty impressive.
“I remember him saying, ‘There’s no way someone is not going to leak it. There’s going to be paparazzi everywhere,'” RoseMarie Terenzio, Jr.’s executive assistant shares. “Someone suggested he go in disguise and I said, ‘That’s ridiculous. You’re not doing that!'”
John F. Kennedy Jr. reached out to Princess Diana and asked if he could meet her while she was in New York for philanthropic purposes. After word got out about their hour and a half long meeting at the Carlyle hotel… in her hotel room… rumors of an affair ignited.
Obviously the rumors were not true. Prince Charles and Princess Di were separated but Jr. was absolutely crazy about his then girlfriend, Carolyn Bessette.
JFK Jr. had something much bigger in mind. The marketing genius behind George… a politics meets pop culture magazine… wanted Princess Diana to be his cover girl.
Terenzio describes the encounter in her book Fairy Tale Interrupted: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss. She went along for the ride and explains that although JFK Jr. and Princess Diana had never met each other… the two had much in common.
“He wanted to do a respectful piece,” Terenzio says. Princess Diana wasn’t sold… “She wrote John a note that said, ‘Thank you so much, but not right now.'”
Everyone back at George wanted details. “He was very careful what he said,” Matt Berman, author of JFK Jr., George, & Me remembers. “The one funny thing he said was, ‘She’s got a great pair of legs.'” Berman drew a sketch of Diana in a George Washington hat for Kennedy to pitch the Princess.
Terenzio admits, “I do remember him saying, ‘She’s really tall!’ He also said she was very shy. He was surprised how demure she was. I think they had both met Mother Theresa so they spoke about that. And he said how lovely she was.”
JFK Jr. was said to be absolutely gutted by the death of Princess Diana in 1997. He would tragically die two years later.
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