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Sarah Pidgeon as Carolyn Bessette and Paul Anthony Kelly as John F. Kennedy Jr in Love Story.

How this Kennedy drama has flipped the Camelot script

A new dramatised series tracing the romance, wedding and stunningly sad death of JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette has found unexpected audiences.

  • Maureen Dowd

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Sarah Pidgeon as Carolyn Bessette and Paul Kelly as John F. Kennedy Jr in Love Story.

It was the greatest romance of the ’90s, but this retelling of JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette’s story is just Hallmark froth

The first instalment in Ryan Murphy’s new anthology is basically The Crown for Americans – with added nostalgia, and Naomi Watts.

  • Kylie Northover
Jack Schlossberg will run for Congress in the state of New York.

JFK’s influencer grandson to run for Congress

The latest Kennedy scion to enter the world of politics is the TikTokking grandson of JFK and son of the former Australian ambassador.

  • Cameron Henderson
John F. Kennedy Jr and his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, in New York in 1999.

Tragedy hit America’s ‘royal couple’ in 1999. Now the tale’s heading to TV

Ryan Murphy’s American Love Story will bring the Kennedy-Bessette romance to the small screen for the first time.

  • Sharon Bradley
Christopher Esber “Verve” dress, $1450. Paspaley “Touchstone Pearls My Way” earrings. Paspaley “Delfini” pearl necklaces. Paspaley pearl rings.

To channel the elegance of a ’90s icon, these are the fashion choices to make

Here are the ingredients to Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy’s effortlessly chic style.

  • Damien Woolnough
November 22, 1963, the day president John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.

How to write a media column (and get away with it)

Some columns are unforgettable – from the immeasurable pain of a young widow to the memory of a predawn excursion, where a father shared the wonder of wetlands.

  • John Silvester
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Jackie Kennedy - inspiration for Raffles Femme Fatale cocktail. Her lipstick-smeared glass is on display at the Elephant Bar.

Jackie Kennedy would have turned 95 this week. Who was the woman behind the photos?

And what is it that draws us back, again and again, to her story?

  • Dawn Tripp
Elvis and Priscilla

Priscilla, Cleopatra and their beaus: the best real-life couples in film

We’re all voyeurs at heart, so is that why so many people are fascinated by the love lives of these historical figures?

  • Kerrie O'Brien
It’s been 60 years since President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

Jacqueline Kennedy’s words in Dallas in 1963 foreshadow today’s America

The charismatic Kennedy exuded confidence and competence. He gave America a vision for the 1960s. He was the antithesis of the uninspiring Joe Biden and bumptious Donald Trump.

John F Kennedy and wife Jacqueline in 1961 … JFK was taken from us before we could fully see his vision.

I was 12 when JFK was assassinated. Here’s what I saw

Today, we need Kennedy’s noble clarion call to Americans renewed, so the country can transcend these times, the most divisive since the Civil War.

  • Bruce Wolpe