Never-before published letters written by Jacqueline Kennedy reveal the first lady's thoughts on her marriage to President John F. Kennedy, and the despair she went through after his assassination.
Jacqueline Kennedy wrote the letters, 33 in all, to an Irish priest over a period of 14 years starting when she met him in 1950, Fox News reported. She details her life with the man who would become the 35th president, including the time she fell in love with him to his being like her flirtatious father.
"He's like my father in a way-" Jacqueline wrote of John, according to Fox News, "loves the chase and is bored with the conquest- and once married needs proof he's still attractive, so flirts with other women and resents you. I saw how that nearly killed Mummy."
The letters are to be auctioned off in Ireland in June and are expected to sell for nearly $1.6 million. Jacqueline passed away in 1994.
A year after they were married in 1953, Jacqueline wrote to the priest, Reverend Joseph Leonard: "I love being married much more than I even did in the beginning."
By 1955, John was a U.S. senator. Their marriage was tested when Jacqueline gave birth to a stillborn the following year, but the first lady did not lose faith, writing "how sadness shared brings married people closer together," according to Fox News.
But Mrs. Kennedy struggled with her faith in God when her husband was killed in 1963.
"God will have some explaining to do to me if I ever see him," Jacqueline wrote to the priest in 1964. By that time she had children, and expressed a desire to restore her faith so that she wouldn't be a bitter mother, according to Fox News.
"I feel more cruelly every day what I have lost," Jacqueline wrote to Leonard, who died in 1964. "I always would have rather lost my life than lost Jack."
