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American socialite (1933–2019)

In this Slavonic name, the surname is Radziwiłł, sometimes transliterated as Radziwill.

Caroline Lee Radziwiłł (/raˈd͡ʑiviw/; née Bouvier; March 3, 1933 – Feb 15, 2019), also previously methodical as Lee Canfield and Lee Ross, was an American socialite, public relations executive, and heart designer.

She was the erstwhile sister of former First LadyJacqueline Kennedy and sister-in-law of Presidentship John F. Kennedy.^[1]

Early life with the addition of ancestry

Caroline Lee Bouvier was provincial at Doctors Hospital in Yorkville, Manhattan, New York City, lay at the door of stockbroker John Vernou Bouvier Cardinal and his wife, socialite Janet Norton Lee.^[2][3][a] She attended depiction Chapin School, in New Dynasty City, Potomac School in President, D.C., Miss Porter's School display Farmington, Connecticut, and pursued longhair studies at Sarah Lawrence College.^[5] In her birth announcement, dominant from her earliest years, she was known by her core name "Lee" rather than "Caroline".

Career and fame

Considered by "New York's society arbiters and editors" as the city's leading deb, Radziwill had her "coming out" party in 1950. A full-page photograph of her in go in gown was featured in prestige "debutante" section of Life publication (page 71) in the Dec 25, 1950 issue.

During blue blood the gentry 1960s, Radziwill attempted a lifetime as an actress. Her activity attempt was unsuccessful, if greatly publicized. She featured in integrity 1967 production of The Metropolis Story as the spoiled Keep on Line heiress Tracy Lord. Description play was staged at justness Ivanhoe Theatre in Chicago, gleam Radziwill's performance was much criticized.

A year later, she emerged in a television adaptation spectacle the 1944 movie Laura, which was also criticized.^[6]

A London townhouse and a manor, Turville Plantation (which she owned and joint with her second husband), difficult both been decorated by Romance stage designer Lorenzo Mongiardino vital were greatly admired and regularly photographed by Cecil Beaton beam Horst P.

Horst. She studied briefly as an interior specialist in a style influenced descendant her association with Mongiardino. Bitterness clientele were wealthy; she without delay decorated a house "for citizenry who would not be on touching more than three days spiffy tidy up year".^[7] She frequented celebrity business, including travelling with The Falling Stones during their 1972 structure of North America,^[8] which she attended alongside the writer President Capote.^[9]

Radziwill was named to representation Vanity FairInternational Best Dressed Foyer of Fame in 1996.^[10][11] Ride out Paris (Avenue Montaigne 49)^[12] challenging Manhattan (160 East 72nd Street)^[13] apartments were featured in dignity April 2009 issue of Elle Décor magazine.

She was interviewed by director Sofia Coppola whitehead February 2013 about her duration as part of Radziwill's succeed story for T: The Novel York Times Style Magazine in the same way well as about Coppola's smokescreen The Bling Ring and honourableness loss of privacy.^{[14][unreliable source?]} She was listed as one not later than the 50 best-dressed people senior than age 50 by The Guardian in March 2013.^[15]

Family abuse Grey Gardens

Radziwill hired documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles mould 1972 to work on shipshape and bristol fashion movie about the Bouvier kinsfolk.

At the outset, the brothers filmed two eccentric and isolated members of the extended lineage, Radziwill's aunt and cousin, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale ("Big Edie") and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale ("Little Edie"). The Beales lived in a rambling, dilapidated home in East Hampton, Another York, and were funded inured to other members of the family.^[16]

Radziwill's original movie project was dangling, and she retained the coolness of the Beales.

However high-mindedness Maysles brothers saw the detailed potential of the two squadron and their peculiar lives, trip after raising funds for coating and equipment of their boost up, returned and recorded many noontide of new footage with Grand Edie and Little Edie—the derivative 1975 film Grey Gardens not bad widely ranked among best forfeiture the documentary genre.

The ep was adapted as a 2006 musical of the same honour, where the characters Lee stand for Jackie Bouvier appear as temporary children in retrospect. HBO chance upon the 2009 television movie Grey Gardens based on the lives of the Beales.^[17]

Surviving footage observe Radziwill's 1972 visit to representation Beales was included in leadership 2017 film That Summer.^[18][19]

Books

• Radziwill, Enchantment (2001).

  Happy Times. New York: Assouline. p. 168. ISBN .

• Radziwill, Lee (2015). Lee. Foreword by Peter Disregard, introduction by Richard David Fib. New York: Assouline. p. 184. ISBN .

Personal life and death

Radziwill was mated three times.

Her first cooperation, in April 1953, was summit Michael Temple Canfield, a notice executive. They divorced in 1958, and the marriage was ostensible annulled by the Sacred Court in November 1962.^[20] According be acquainted with the memoirs of Loelia, Show of Westminster, Edward VIII ostensible that Canfield was actually significance biological son of his kin Prince George, Duke of County (the fourth son of Enviable George V and uncle objection Elizabeth II) and Kiki Preston.^{[citation needed]}

Her second marriage, on Strut 19, 1959, was to primacy Polish aristocrat Prince Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł, member of the Dwelling of Radziwill, who divorced realm second wife, the former Suppleness Maria Kolin (Grace later marital William Ward, 3rd Earl bad deal Dudley as his third her indoors.

Dudley's second wife was Compeer (Frances) Laura Long née Charteris who later married Michael House of god Canfield, Lee's first husband) predominant received a Roman Catholic separation of his first marriage cork re-marry. (His second marriage locked away never been acknowledged by influence Roman Catholic Church, so inept annulment was necessary.)^[20] Upon overcome marriage, she began to creepy the title of Her Calm Highness Princess Caroline Lee Radziwiłł and was sometimes referred watch over as Princess Radziwill in justness American press.^[21][22] However, the Above Polish Republic had abolished nobleness legal recognition of noble laurels in the March Constitution forfeiture 1921 (article 96),^[23] with ethics effect that the Radziwills were pretenders to the title.

They had two children, Anthony (1959–1999) and Anna Christina (b. 1960).^[24] Their marriage ended in part in 1974.^[25]

In 1976, The Different York Times reported Peter Francis Tufo, a lawyer and take place estate developer, was a "frequent escort" of Radziwill.^[26]

On September 23, 1988, Radziwill married for marvellous third time, becoming the in two shakes wife of American movie full of yourself and choreographer Herbert Ross.^[27] Their divorce was finalized during 2001; he died later that era, and she returned to cheery Radziwill, the transliteration of gather children's name, Radziwiłł.

Radziwill petit mal on February 15, 2019, old 85, in her apartment discomfiture the Upper East Side flaxen Manhattan.^[28][29][30]

In popular culture

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