Then Bobby, wearing a white swimsuit, emerged from the house and knelt by her side. As they began to kiss, he placed one hand on her breast and the other between her legs. After a few minutes, she stood up and wrapped a towel around her. Together, Bobby and Jackie disappeared into the house."
Some like it hot
Ultimately, it appears that the wife was as libidinous as the mistress. Yet neither of them was as highly sexed as the man in their lives. Jack Kennedy insisted that if he didn't have sex on a daily basis he would get a headache, and claimed, "I'm not through with a woman until I've had her three ways." But according to Jackie's friend, Peter Duchin. "Jackie was very, very romantic, but not sexy," while Peter Lawford alluded to Marilyn's "romanticism."
Perhaps it is natural that, from the start, Marilyn and Jackie were enthralled by one another. When she was working as a young reporter in Washington, Jackie invariably asked men, "If you had a date with Marilyn Monroe, what would you talk about?" And Marilyn's fascination with Jackie was such that she even dressed as her for a Life magazine shoot, donning a black wig and pearls for the occasion.
When Marilyn died at the age of 36 in 1962, Jackie, the wronged wife, declared somberly, "She will go on eternally." Jackie herself died on May 19, 1994, the 32nd anniversary of the night on which Marilyn Monroe sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to her lover.
The Secret Letters of Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy, a novel by Wendy Leigh, is published in the UK by Thomas Dunne Books.
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