‘SHE KNEW HE CHEATED ON HER, BUT IT WAS THE SCALE OF IT THAT BECAME PUBLIC AFTER HIS DEATH THAT DEVASTATED HER’ THE nondescript white cardboard box sat in a darkened corner of the attic, forgotten for years. It was only when the box was opened that its gruesome contents were revealed.
Neatly folded inside, still stained with the blood of President John F Kennedy, rested the pink suit worn by First Lady Jackie Kennedy on 22 November 1963, when her husband was shot dead in Dallas.
The astonishing revelation that the Chanel outfit, one of the most symbolic items of clothing in history, sat unattended for two decades in the attic of the Washington, DC, home of Jackie’s mother, Janet Auchincloss, is one of a series of bombshells in…
