Imagine two of the most famous people in the world being together in the same room and the public being none the wiser. That’s what happened when Princess Diana and John F. Kennedy Jr.
secretly met in 1995. Ahead, what JFK Jr. said about the British royal’s looks .
Plus, why Diana didn’t comment on his. Diana and JFK Jr. had a ‘discreet’ meeting about ‘George’ magazine In JFK Jr.
: An Intimate Oral Biography , JFK Jr.’s former executive assistant RoseMarie Terenzio, along with co-author Liz McNeil, shared details of a secret meeting between JFK Jr. and Diana.
The two met in New York, New York, in the summer of 1995 after Kennedy wrote to the British royal asking if she’d be on the cover of his new George magazine. The hope? To get Diana to dress up as an American historical figure. (Cindy Crawford previously dressed as George Washington for the inaugural issue.
) Diana responded to his letter, suggesting they meet in person to discuss the proposal. Her private secretary, Patrick Jephson, worked out the details with Terenzio, settling on a weekday afternoon meeting at the Carlyle Hotel, where Diana was staying. “It was never made public, so that made it quite fun, actually,” Jephson said.
“Diana wanted it to be discreet because it had all the makings of a great gossip story, didn’t it? World’s most eligible bachelor, wasn’t he at the time? And she had just got unmarried or was in the process of getting unmarried. It would’ve been a rather intrigui.