The Tragic Rift Between Jackie Kennedy and Her Sister | A Tale of Two Sisters | Real History

Im 68 years old, and remember so much of this. When My daughter who is 37 buys a certain type of sunglasses,she calls them Jackie O's! Her style is still remerbed to this day!

That shot of them as girls at 3:42 is just beautiful. They both possessed such great style, Jackie was such a classy lady and her fashion is so iconic, the dresses, sunglasses etc. Lee also was a very iconic dresser & interior design as well, I brought her book Happy Times, just fantastic. RIP to them both!

This was one of the most riveting videos of Jackie O that I have ever seen... Beautifully done ❤

With the possible exception of her father-in-law Joseph Kennedy, the people around John F. Kennedy first viewed Jacqueline as a political liability to be given minimal exposure. They soon learned that the opposite was true. Jackie was more than a priceless ornament, she had intelligence, drive and a superb knowledge of American history and culture. The White House prior to Mrs. Kennedy was like a poorly furnished second-rate hotel. Mrs. Kennedy restored it to the elegance its designers had envisioned. It has been a work of art ever since. She saved Lafayette Square, helped the National Gallery of Art acquire treasures and instituted the National Cultural Center which became the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She did all that in two years and ten months. Washington and the USA will never forget her.

I heard a young woman ask, Jackie who ?, when complemented she looked like Jackie -O , in her, dark sunglasses. My heart dropped . I wanted to educate her right there.

I feel like this is more about Jackie's life than the rift between the sisters.

I love the fact that Jackie lived life on her own terms despite the pressures of society and her family. That takes an extreme amount of courage.

Jackie had only 2 things that Lee didn’t possess that made Jackie more famous than Lee. Lee was smart, but Jackie was brilliant, specifically, a brilliant political & social strategist, who knew what the public wanted, and worked harder than most of us will ever know to create, build & then maintain her public image. But the 2nd thing that Jackie possessed that enabled her fame to outlast her famous marriages was the zeitgeist: she was born at the right time. Her lack of financial autonomy & insistence on making marrying rich her primary profession would not endear her to this generation of females like it did in her time. It is Lee’s more fluid personality and work-horse ethic (very few people know how much she worked - real jobs) that this decade would find more appealing.

Mothers who set up their daughters to marry „Someone“ and keep pressuring with comparison belong to the past.

It's easy to be elegant and strong and proud and never ask anybody for anything if you're worth tens of millions of dollars and have assistants, maids, butlers, chefs, drivers, nannies, etc. You would be, too, if you had all of that.

Their relationship to me is similar to Queen Elizabeth and her sister Margaret. RIP to all.

This video was more an overview of Jackie's life, rather than an in-depth look at the rift between the sisters. I was hoping to learn more about that. I guess Jackie's appropriation of Onassis from Lee caused some of it, but I thought they eventually got past that. Then I heard that in her will, Jackie left nothing at all to Lee -- no money or even personal items!! That seems strange.

Don’t care if your Empress and a Queen. You steal your sisters lover that wrong.

At least she was spared the horror of her son’s death ( as well as his wife and her sister ) . I doubt she could have survived that kind of devastation. Not too many women had the steely resilience of her mother in law…Rose

Lee Radziwill was in the middle off making a documentary on her eccentric aunt  Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale,  (Big Edie, sister to jackie and Lee'sfather) and first cousin little Edie but it fell through so Albert and David Maysles took it over "Gray Gardens" Fascinating documentary,  the true meaning "from riches to rags " and it was Jackie that helped get their lives back on track!

Her “ breathless affectation” with her voice was so fake! Her sister was the most genuine of the two.

Thank you for sharing how beautiful life was i remember getting dressed up now people fly as if coming back from working TIMES HAVE CHANGED

Very well done.

I'm 72 years old and rememner all of this. Jackie was my idol.

As a child , I really admired Jackie ! She loved to ride horses like many of girls did in the 1960's! She was an excellent Equestrian ! 🤗🐎🐎