Jackie Kennedy letters pulled from auction

Secret letters from Jacqueline Kennedy to an Irish priest have been pulled from a controversial auction sale.

Jackie Kennedy letters pulled from auction

Correspondence from the wife of US President JF Kennedy revealing the widow’s private and innermost thoughts had been expected to sell next month for around £2.4m.

The letters, which strike a remarkable confessional tone, began in 1950 and continued until the death in 1964 of Fr Joseph Leonard, a Vincentian cleric based at All Hallows College in Dublin.

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