“It magnifies it.”
One person who shared in Jackie’s grief was David Ormsby-Gore, aka Lord Harlech.
Six months later, Jackie and Ormsby-Gore went to Cambodia, a trip that ignited rumors of wedding bells.
The rumors were justified, and sometime later, Ormsby-Gore asked Jackie to marry him as resurfaced letters revealed.
He was devastated when she turned him down.
“As for your photograph, I weep when I look at it.
Why do such agonizing things have to happen?”
the former ambassador wrote in a reportedly unsent letter, per theBBC.
Jackie had already considered her position on not marrying close acquaintances.
She confided her thoughts about future marriages to Rev.
Richard T. McSorley in 1964.
“It’ll be so lonely when the children go away to school.”
In addition, Jackie also believed that she and Ormsby-Gore had too much of a commingled past.
The former first lady also had a serious relationship with architect Jack Warnecke.
By May 1964, Warnecke made the first move and coaxedJackie into a date.
However, author J. Randy Taraborrelli is skeptical they would have lasted as a couple.
“That’s how she ended up with Aristotle Onassis.”
Jackie provided additional reasons for marrying Onassis in a 1968 letter to Ormsby-Gore.
She noted that her new husband was “lonely and wants to protect me from being lonely.
And he is wise and kind” (viaThe New York Times).
They got together one final time two months before Jackie died.
After reminiscing about some of Warnecke’s old love letters, which Jackie had saved, she burned them.
