‘Monroe believed she was going to marry JFK’

Marilyn Monroe, who notoriously had an affair with John F Kennedy, apparently believed she was going to marry the president, even phoning the White House to tell his wife.

The story, in a new book by journalist Christopher Andersen, asserts that Jackie Kennedy even told Monroe that the screen siren was welcome to take over her role as first lady.

“And you’ll move into the White House and you’ll assume the responsibilities of first lady, and I’ll move out and you’ll have all the problems,” she reportedly told Monroe.