Clarification on Kennedy image
In illustrating a Shropshire Star story about the new book 'Secret Oswestry' a picture was used that showed Lord Harlech and Jackie Kennedy, with Lady Harlech in the background.
The family says it wants to clarify an issue raised by the publication of the image.
Lord Harlech's grandson, Mr Saffron Rainey, says: "It implied that Sir David Ormsby Gore – who inherited the title Lord Harlech in 1964 – and Jackie Kennedy either were having, or developed, a relationship at the time when he was married to his first wife Lady Sylvia. This was not the case and causes offence to current family members.
"Only after my grandmother Sylvia was killed in a car crash in 1967 did their friendship develop on a trip to Cambodia that Jackie asked my grandfather to join her on."
Mr Rainey, who lives in Oswestry, also dismisses a story in the book that future American president Jack Kennedy and his wife Jackie visited David Ormsby Gore during his time as the Oswestry MP.
"This is a fable. Jack Kennedy never came to stay with the family in Oswestry. There is no record of him ever coming, either with his wife, or on his own, or with anybody else.
"You can go to the Kennedy library and look at his diaries and see what he was doing every day. And a few years ago I spoke both to my mother and my aunt and asked them whether Jack Kennedy came to Oswestry, and their answer was absolutely clear, and the answer was no. He did not stay."
