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“You are wonderful and I miss you,” Kennedy scribbled at the end of letter to aristocrat Gunilla von Post, whom he'd met a few weeks before he wed Jacqueline Bouvier.
Secret letters written by John F Kennedy to his Swedish mistress, Gunilla von Post, have been put up for sale online. One autograph signed letter and two partial handwritten letters are currently listed for auction on RR Auction and are dated between 1955 and 1956.
President John F. Kennedy pours out his feelings to aristocrat Gunilla von Post before he married Jackie - the two exchanged letters back and forth across the Atlantic for three years.
Love letters that John F. Kennedy wrote to a Swedish paramour a few years after he married Jacqueline Bouvier are going up for auction. “You are wonderful and I miss you,” Kennedy scribbled at the end of a February 1956 letter to aristocrat Gunilla von Post.
The auction house says Kennedy wrote letters to aristocrat Gunilla von Post in 1955 and 1956, and announced, Wednesday, May 5, 2021, that they will be going up for auction.
Gunilla was surprisingly open about her fling with the famous American politician and even called their intimacy a "revelation," per The Sydney Morning Herald. "I was relatively inexperienced and Jack's tenderness was a revelation,” she wrote in her memoir.
Swedish and American, they were the aristocrat Gunilla von Post and US Senator John F. Kennedy. Von Post was 21 when she met Kennedy, then 36. She had been learning the hospitality...
