One Brief Shining Moment

Jackie Kennedy, 1962.

President John F. Kennedy greets Mary Hemingway at a dinner for Nobel Prize Winners. April 1962.

She finished the look with 'Lucia' Slingbacks in Tan by Camilla Elphick.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐒 attend the annual Commonwealth Day Service of Celebration at Westminster Abbey in London | 9 MARCH 2026

summer of 1960

Jack and Jackie leaving Otis Air Force Base Hospital after the death of their son, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, who passed away on August 9th, 1963

"But I must say, during that time [after Joe Sr.’s stroke], Jackie was just marvelous to her father-in-law. Oh, she was—and he was very fond of Jackie. But sometimes he would be so irritable because he couldn’t talk, that she could just go in and talk to him, and say, “Grandpa,” you know, “It’s Jackie, and we’re going to stay here with you,” and all. And she could calm him down in five minutes, more than anybody else could. Whether it was the President, or Bobby—nobody. Nobody could do it like she could. And she, that’s her way. Sometimes she would come in, down at the Cape, late. We would be sitting at the dinner table, and you know Mr. Kennedy! You’d march in, single file, five minutes before it was served. You had to be in the living room, and then when the bell would ring, everybody would go in. Jackie could come in two or three minutes late, and he would not say anything! He would just say, “Hello, Jackie.” And she’d come in, and go over and kiss Grandpa and Grandma, and sit down, and everything was just fine." - Luella Hennessey-Donovan, Kennedy family nurse from 1935-1963, in an interview for the JFK Library

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐒 attend the annual Commonwealth Day Service of Celebration at Westminster Abbey in London | 9 MARCH 2026

royal fashion appreciation the princess of wales' commonwealth day service outfits over the years (2015-2026)

Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, 8/7/63 - 8/9/63

-Hubert de Givenchy