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Letters Written By President Kennedy to Swedish Lover Go to Auction

The documents prove the former president's infidelity while he was married to Jacqueline Kennedy.

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Three letters written by John F. Kennedy, the former American president, to his Swedish lover go up for auction in the United States. Sent to the aristocrat Gunilla von Post, one of them contains the following excerpt: “I had a wonderful time last summer with you. It is a bright memory of my life—you are wonderful and I miss you."

Written by hand and on the official paper of the United States Senate, the letters were sent after Kennedy met von Post on the French Riviera in the summer of 1953, when he was a Massachusetts senator and engaged to Jacqueline Bouvier. Despite the danger the relationship posed to their reputation, Gunilla wrote in a 1997 memoir that they had been having an affair for years.

"This is the only letter from Kennedy that shows open affection for another woman while he was married," said a representative from RR Auction, where the letters are being sold. The auction house also said that the letters were found on von Post's estate after her death in 2011.

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