Gunilla von Post
Born(1932-07-10)10 July 1932
Stockholm, Sweden
Died14 October 2011(2011-10-14) (aged 79)
Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.[1]
OccupationSwedish noble

Karin Adele Gunilla von Post Miller (10 July 1932 – 14 October 2011)[2] was a Swedish aristocrat noted for a book outlining an intimate relationship with then-Senator John F. Kennedy in the 1950s, titled "Love, Jack", published in 1997. In 2010, she auctioned letters written by Kennedy to her.[3][4]

Kennedy met Gunilla von Post one month before his marriage to Jacqueline Lee Bouvier during the summer of 1953 while on holiday on the French Riviera.[5]

In 2015, a leather jacket that had once belonged to Kennedy and which he had left with von Post was unearthed by the senior chaplain of The King's School, Canterbury. He then brought it to a November 2015 filming of an episode of the Antiques Roadshow at Walmer Castle in Kent, where it was valued in excess of £100,000 pounds sterling (circa $152,000 US dollars) by one of the show's expert appraisers, Jon Baddeley.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Karin Adele Gunilla von Post Miller Obituary: View Karin Miller's Obituary by The Palm Beach Post". legacy.com. Retrieved 9 February 2014.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Gunilla von Post". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  3. ^ "JFK notes to Swedey on block". New York Post. 16 February 2010. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
  4. ^ "Svenska bjuder ut sin post-romans med JFK | Utrikes | SvD". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 19 February 2010. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  5. ^ "'It's complicated', JFK told Swedish lover in secret letter". The Independent. 17 February 2010. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
  6. ^ Foster, Patrick (16 November 2015). "Antiques Roadshow unearths JFK's leather jacket". The Daily Telegraph. Online. Retrieved 17 November 2015.


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