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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Love letters of John F Kennedy Will be Auctioned

Love letters secret from John F Kennedy to his mistress who was a Swedish woman, before and during her marriage has been opened to the public for the first time after her ex-lover's intention to sell the letters. Kennedy's correspondence includes 11 letters that read hand and three telegrams, to Gunilla von Post shows the romance that marked the life of famous aggressive than the U.S. president was against women. Kennedy was also later associated with Marilyn Monroe and several other women.

Kennedy was 36 years old and blond Swedish girl was 21 years old when they first met on the Cote d'Azur in August 1953. Even though it was a month before Kennedy was married to Jacqueline Bouvier, Gunilla von Post says, they danced all night and interspersed with a passionate kiss. June next year, after finding an address in Stockholm Von Post, Kennedy writes, "I may be climbing and sailing ships in the Mediterranean Sea for two weeks, with you as a crew."

Kennedy changed tack in November 1954 when he was forced to undergo major surgery on the back and he writes from New York hospital to ask for the willingness of Von Post if she had a chance to come to America. "I am very disappointed that at the last second I can not come to Europe, especially when you are in Paris and we should be able to enjoy the good times," wrote Kennedy.

In his letter after that, he writes with feeling about "beauty, a face that still haunt controlled me" from her boyfriend who she called by name Gunilla. The couple met in secret in an old palace in Sweden in 1955. "I took her for a week, a wonderful week that no one can take him from me," said Miss Von Post. Von Post, who first revealed her affair with John F Kennedy in a book published in 1997, describing their relationship as electric.

However, in his last letter, dated August 1955, Kennedy has added a note of realism of their affair. "I just got word today that my wife and daughter are heading here. It would be totally complicated for me now, Swediaku girl," he wrote. "What I can do is sit in the sun and watching the ocean and dreaming about Gunilla. All Love, Jack."  Doug Allen, president of the auction house, said he believed the letters would reach the value of U.S. $ 100,000. Are you interested to have it?

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