Jackie Kennedy vs Queen Elizabeth II (Cont)
The drama didn’t end there as according to her friend, the writer and public intellectual Gore Vidal, the First Lady felt the Queen “had her revenge,” when two attendees Jackie had specifically requested, Princess Margaret and Princess Marina, were not invited to the party. The remaining attendees didn’t impress her either, with Jackie reportedly saying to Vidal about the guest list, “No Margaret, no Marina, no one except every Commonwealth minister of agriculture they could find.”
Vidal also stated that although Jackie thought Prince Phillip was “nice but nervous,” she thought the Queen was “pretty heavy-going.” Vidal would later recount this description to the Queen’s sister Princess Margaret some years later, only for the dutiful sibling to reply tersely, “But that’s what she’s there for.” Sadly, that would be the one and only visit the Kennedys would make before tragedy struck.
