And she has great bone structure, too.

and maybe she smoked (when she drank, lol); her voice is deep and ... smoky.

It would be great if we could stop characterizing older women as "of a certain age" so patronizing

'of a certain age' WTH!

She was of a certain age. Anyone blessed to live long enough will get there ​@patternmotherlode9250 .

@@patternmotherlode9250 Well...as a woman of a certain age...personally I'm ok with that term. 😂 I think we borrowed it from the French.... I don't think they mean it disrespectfully.... But thank you for your concern! ❤️

Most everyone was a heavy smoker back then. It was seen as very glamorous .

@@bbcbbc1717 Yes, more than one of Capote’s “swans” died of lung cancer.

Yes; her son Anthony passed away tragically. But she is still a vapid empty "socialite." Class act, hardly. What did she ever achieve? What did she ever do for humanity? Class act? Gimme a break.

SeanFitandSmart and what have you done for humanity SeanFitandSmart? People who live in glass houses should never throw stones "mate".

SeanFitandSmart Truth be told If her sister Jackie did not land JFK she would have been just like Lee maybe more obscure. Lee married a Prince(her first marriage before Jackie married) and was more popular younger. She also had a relationship with Onassis before her sister Jackie. Your opinion of Lee is innaccurate IMO. Even JFK referred to Lee as a knockout.

The classy lady has gone through the mill and back again. She certainly is a survivor first class!!

SeanFitandSmart Lee was first married to Michael Canfield then Stanislas Radziwill--the Prince.

Because she was aloneand craved company. Nothing nice about that...

Did you mean to say guile or guiless? I think you meant the latter.

Her mother was so angry that she wanted to adopt a child probably because she realized to Lee was lonely and neglected which had everything to do with her.

​@@lindan2836what's wrong with craving company? That wasn't her fault .

That she cared & was passionate.

Definitely. Jackie was supposedly very shy

Lee was a loser grifter

Jacqueline was not a shy person. She became aggressive when money was on the table. That is why she married Aristotle Onassis.

Jacqueline Onassis is a Legend! She married a US Senator who became a US President ( the chance of that in 1960 like 1/ 150 million. Jacqueline then suffers through the assassination of RFK. Aristotle Onassis offers her unimaginable wealth, privacy and security. Jacqueline fled to Greece and Europe for 7 years. Aristotle died in 1975 leaving Jacqueline about 25 million.

You are clueless. Jacqueline was a snotty Society Girl. She was a social climber who loved money,clothes, languages ( European) and travel. Jacqueline screwed Aristotle Onassis and got 25 million when he died in 1975. Caroline and John/ RIP lived on easy street.

Oh yes. She is fabulous in the manner of Brooke Astor and THE Mrs. Vanderbilt.

@@tony1622 I do agree that she's entertaining............I would challenge the word fabulous though!

almost the epitome of a lower class rich snob social climber. if she was jewish she would be the epitome. Radziwil is not even her real name, she has been married at least twice since Stash. Typical f lower class ruche social climbers to keep the most noble name they can

Daniel Gada rolling my eyes....sigh

Oh yes😍

Len Welch great comment!

Their father intentionally taught them to use their voices in that manner... to be beguiling with their speech, and inflection, which is actually kind of sick. :/

@@jennilang721 Though it was an interesting interview, and to me she is completely likable, I agree with what you're saying. I have no way of knowing what or how the father taught her to do or be like. But having done a few private duty caretaking for people in her level of fortune, I can say the women in this group all talk like this. It is strange though. Honestly, they all talk like that. It must have to do with allocution classes etc., in the private schools they went to, or a particular training of some kind that they don't tell us regular people about. It's a very inhibited way of speaking, but it does effectively put up barriers around them from the rest of the world.

AMEN ......

@@jennilang721 and so did the schools

*What does "NONPLUSSED" mean? Greetings from THAILAND (not THAIWAN)* kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i6p6hNCivNzVhoU.html

nonplussed? you mean, unconcerned, or unperturbed? nonplussed means something different.

@@rioollie Blair of sirens - a new collective noun? BLARE

Why should people be 'plussed?' I hear sirens like that regularly in Cincinnati, OH.

@@duncanmcpherson2555 yeah, like a murder of crows

I agree with her about Mick!

Lonely and alone at 11 😢

Janet Auchincloss was a horrid woman. More than a piece of work.

Lee didnt hve t b so honest bout Mick Jagger but she was!!

Her mother, Janet Lee, was mostly Irish Catholic yet tried to be the WASPy society matron by hiding her ancestry and converting to the Episcopal Church. James Auchincloss is Janet's last living child.

The Bouvier sisters wisely kept each other’s secrets private and had their own lives. Old east coast money who believed in discretion.

@@Ellen24493 😊

Lee dropped out of college! She lived off the fame of her older sister! Jacqueline more clever and much more academic than Lee ( Jacqueline spoke Italian, French, and Spanish)! Lee, used her association with her world famous sister to marry Herb Ross ( the Director of Steel Magnolias)!

The stepdad (Hugh Auchinchloss had about 60 Million at one time. Jacqueline and Lee were not raised in a wealthy home. Black Jack Bouvier ( a Yale Educated/ Stockbroker) was upper middle class nowhere near rich! Hugh was wealthy though, and that is why Janet married him ( her second husband)!

@@kdtennis1 In those days most girls dropped out of college to marry.

+Cynthia Horrocks-Peck "And so we [or those with Alzheimers] beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past [but for those with Alzheimers, lacking memory ... yet biological life goes on, for a while]." -- Last paragraph of the FitzGerald novel, The Great Gatsby

Cynthia Horrocks-Peck I see so much of her sister in her. Her smile. Teeth

With out oxygen there is No life.

and without life there can be no memories...

MeMories may be beautiful and yet….

Yes, actually heartbreaking! She was so desperately lonely.😢 All the money in the world can’t buy love & the attention every child deserves from their parents.

@@lgempet2869 : Agree with you 100 percent. Anyone that thinks that it is "cute" attempting to adopt an orphan really lacks insight into the desperate attempt of a child to find a friend out of sheer loneliness. Truly a cry for help!

Sweet? More like self interest. She was extremely desperate to play with someone, in her young rich mind she thought she could purchase another kid to play with. 🤣

Really sad, actually.

​@@roxxylala26How absolutely wrong you are. Your social bitterness is showing. You missed the whole point of the story.

That's hilarious. I do love a good joke.

Watthaile Trigger easily huh Karen?

She did have a beautiful voice. That Summer is on my channel if anybody wants to watch.

Is this on Netflix or somewhere else?

@@michy2630 it’s on youtube too🫶

@@user-yd4nk4lm6s sammer

Oh how I loved That Summer, she was so beautiful and graceful. Her voice was so ethereal.

She was about 80 years old here, she's 84, now.

She has since passed away in 2019.

@@halewich I'm aware she is dead that's why I used past tense in my post. However, my opening sentence shows that I STILL regard her as stunning.

@ myswanktrenz. Do you feel better now, dear.??

those are great lines and ALMOST the same as she says in the interview. mediocre job, well done you!!!

Ash Mukherjee me too

That is why she slept with him, huh? Listen, do NOT believe the B.S. this woman is dishing Yes, I know she has died, & we are taught NEVER to speak ill of the dead, but this woman is such a liar. Simply, because in ALL of her stories, there is NOT a SINGLE person left to corroborate, substantiate or circumstantiate any of them. Not that there has to be, don't get me wrong. But there are MANY, MANY ways to specificize her many "stories".

I found him absolutely gross in every way.

unclenelvis thank you Uncle Nelvis.

An update would've take off years.

I LOVE IT very New York glamour

About as good as drumph hairdo!!

Yes

So coiffed.

She slept with and had affairs with dozens of men... she was envious of her sister and rode her coattails to fame and notoriety. She never helf a real job.

No

Hardly

Maybe if she put the cigarette down

Lena Judging people 60 years ago by your “virtuous” standards of today is peak cringe.

Onassis needed political connections Jackie had ,Lee didn't, political connections are guarantee tax free global expansion,and insider information when trouble is coming let's say on wallstreet and that's all comes from the government,Jackie Kennedy was used by Onassis for money and business.

@@sofiaruha1277 she also used him for his wealth and notoriety...a fair exchange.

And in that process....he hurt Lee Radziwill, and Maria Callas privately and publically!

Sounds like a fair exchange on one level....but look what it did to her relationship with her sister....so sad!

Sofia Ruha Onassis didn't need kennedy money,he was way more wealthy ,Onassis left his country with 20.00 and built an amazing fortune without stealing and blackmail unlike Joe kennedy.

Well she had him first

Never thought I would like her but she's quite a charming woman...❤

NO! … but Jackie stole him away from me

Her?

She was nothing without Jacqueline! Herb Ross ( the Director of Steel Magnolias) wanted her because she was the little sister of world famous / big money Jackie O/ Facts!

I enjoyed listening to her too.

@Mrssewhardtoplease she was married to a Polish Prince...although they rarely used the titles.

Nobody is resting in peace unless they are saved!

Elizabeth Cimino the book “ Jackie, Janet and Lee” is also great

Humphrey B There was always competition between them. Maybe she "stole him" to get back at Lee for her indiscretion with JFK. And Jackie needed him more. She needed the privacy and a place to keep her children safe. Jackies number one priority was her children.

I have always said Jackie was the best Kennedy to serve our country , because she was a Bouvier !

Mh

You know why her son died so young ? because the mother was smoking during pregnancy, probably she fill bad about it remors and regret are substandard emotions guilt is deep,sociopaths does not experience guilt. When a woman smokes during pregnancy the thyroid doesn't function as it should be as the human grow hormonal changes start to kick in and interact with mutated genes initiating an irreversible cell death and tumour growth witch then either spread to organs or decrease white blood cells gradually weakening the immune system,the description here is water down version how her son contracted cancer and what hand she landed in the biological process.

@@sofiaruha1277 completely unsubstantiated. And completely unknown in the time

@@larapalma3744 sorry i'm busy with other things i do not have time to "substantiate" the legal ramifications of the corrupt system the United States has built an empire upon because when a billionaire is connected politically it always benefits those who leverage the circumstances for it.

Please don’t ever use that term to describe human beings. It’s repulsive.

Not at all

i don't know if that's true tbh, she grew up in Jackie's shadow and Jackie is remembered for the things Lee was first good at- fashion, style, culture...

Did you really expect her to be aware of what real people might know or think?!

Saturday night live - Kavanaugh

What are you blathering on about

@@BlowinFree I'm not blathering. You aren't understanding, is all.

@@2degucitas and you can hardly string a coherent sentence together, is all

@@BlowinFree why are you so nasty? Bizzare behavior

@@lporquai9048 it’s spelt bizarre btw. I’m more offended at her lovely hands being called cigarette hands. Now bore off.

Jacqueline helped Lee pay bills for over 20 years! Lee did well after the Herb Ross divorce. I think he gave her $10 Million!

NYC is a dump

+Kat Zolita Mason I totally agree, she sounds so fascinating.

I guess well-bred is a relative term.

I finished Truman Capote vs The Swans and I was so fascinated by the story of these ladies, and I'm now reading Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era. It goes into much greater detail of the swans personally - not just their relationship with Truman. It's a great book so far!

cigarmandallas I agree All the comments are crazy about her looking bad She is 86

Oh, I do believe she's had "some" work done, but naturally of course, it's been done well! That's how it should be done!

U need glasses my love she’s had work done only difference is when u have big bucks u get the best 👌🏼

True that!

She had work done, definitely. 30, 40 years who maybe.

Drag Queen

Oh yes. Jaqueline was considered the more photogenic, but Lee was regarded as a greater beauty in person. Like Margaret of the House of Windsor, Lee should have been queen--that is if the world was a fair place.

Lee HATED Jackie. She was incredibly jealous of her. Jackie stole Ari Onassis from her. And Jackie achieved a career, several careers, that Lee wanted but could never achieve. Lee was a bitter woman.

😂 Yeah, sooo close that Jackie left Lee out of her will.

I beg to differ about being honest. There is no documentation that states her cousin, Little Edie (Edith Beale

There is no documentation that states that her cousin, Edith Beale (Little Edie) attended Harvard and you say she is honest?

That's a MAN dear.....

Yvonne Bryant could it possibly have been a memory lapse or something that Edith had told her instead of dishonesty? Why be so negative? The interesting thing about the interview is to see a glimpse of this woman so closely related to American history, not to fact check.

@@marymary68ify Little Edie says so in Grey Gardens, which I enjoyed, although BIZARRE

Janet ha...Lee and Jacqueline 's mother, did quite well....marrying for status and money. #Affluence Well done! Her daughters indeed were as apples that did not fall far from the tree. They were bred, reared to do so. Their stories are fascinating to say the least. Janet was controlling more than what most people probably have historically and biographically delved into. The mystique of the Bouvier sisters did not disappoint . ( Back in the day Lee was thought to be the more naturally pretty and well built one however she did not have that precise It girl factor ...like her sister. The underpinnings of their family dynamics were dysfunctional not unlike common families who possessed little money. The silver lining was being affored to Jetset and sail away from the " ruins and strained relationships," that most people cannot afford to take refuge from on a regular basis. Social and Economic status works wonders!! ( One can ignore or come to turns with the person who is staring back at them in the mirror and this point of fact , we all share. "Naked we are born and naked we die." May she rest in peace tho.

Hello how're you doing?

She was never smart as Jacqueline and a college dropout! Jacqueline learned languages at the Sorbonne in Paris, France! Jacqueline got a BA Degree at George Washington University ( in Washington DC)!