Jackie Kennedy letters pulled from auction

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

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.