And you thought Jackie Kennedy's revelations ended with the biographies and private letters revealed over the past couple of years since her death. This time, the new insights on the life and thoughts of the former U.S. First Lady came via the 33 missives she wrote to a Vincentian priest in Dublin.
"Over a period from when she first met the Rev. Joseph Leonard on a trip to Ireland in 1950 until he died in 1964, she wrote him more than two dozen letters," CNN noted. "She only met him in person once more, in 1955, but the letters being sold at auction in Ireland provide insight into the personal dreams, wishes and fears of a young woman who became one of the world's most popular figures."
According to The Daily Mail, in 1952, she told Leonard that her husband and former U.S. President John F. Kennedy is "like my father in a way - loves the chase and is bored with the conquest - and once married needs proof he's still attractive, so flirts with other women and resents you. I saw how that nearly killed Mummy." Interestingly, she made this observation before they got married.
She also revealed her breakup of an engagement to John Husted, who she was meant to marry in 1952. "I'm ashamed that we both went into it so quickly and gaily but I think the suffering it brought us both for awhile afterwards was the best thing," her handwritten words on the personalized stationery went. "We both needed something of shock to make us grow up."
Previously, she gushed about her former fiance to the priest, saying she is "so terribly much in love - for the first time."
"I want to get married. And I KNOW I will marry this boy. I don't have to think and wonder -- as I always have before -- if they are the right one, how we'd get along etc...I just KNOW he is and it's the deepest happiest feeling in the world," she wrote, as CNN noted. However, things did not turn out as she hoped, which goes to say she is not immune to the feelings of passion that Cupid's arrows often inflict on their targets.
During her marriage to JFK, she also mused about the "glitzy" life she led. "Maybe I'm just dazzled and picture myself in a glittering world of crowned heads and Men of Destiny-- and not just a sad little housewife," she wrote.
"That world can be very glamorous from the outside -- but if you're in it -- and you're lonely -- it could be a Hell," she reflected.
The letters will be sold next month at Sheppard's Irish Auction House.