In this excerpt from Capote’s Women, the famously caustic author fans the flames of America’s most notorious sibling rivalry.
Lee had a gilded lifestyle. She was married to Stanislaw Radziwill, a Polish prince who had left his native land, and she lived in two grand homes in England—and later a major apartment in Manhattan too. With her sister in the White House, she had to be careful how she acted, what she said, and to whom she said it. She must have known that Truman was an infamous gossip.
Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis entertains Princess Lee Radziwill during a reception at the Athens Hilton, 7th September 1963.There is a clause in the U.S. Constitution banning inherited titles. Yet Americans are obsessed with royalty, even when the pedigree behind them is shaky at best. Stas had given up his title when he fled Poland, but as Lee moved around New York City and Washington, D.C., she was known as “Princess Radziwill.” Evenbought into it.
Truman Capote escorts Princess Lee Radziwill to a reception at the Four Seasons following the premier of Capote's film 'Trilogy: An Experiment in Multimedia,' directed by Frank Perry and written by Capote and Eleanor Perry, New York, New York, November 5, 1969.Ari was mesmerized by Jackie and could not keep away from her. He was so taken with Jackie that it was as if Lee no longer existed.
Truman and Lee had a special kinship. Whatever Lee did, wherever she went, she felt she was second best, always standing in the gigantic shadow of her older sister. As for Truman, as a gay man he felt that when he went into the salons of the powerful and elegant, he could always be spurned, no matter how successful he was as a writer. That was the shadow that hung over him. With each other, they felt strangely secure in their perceived second-best status.
“How could she do this to me!” Lee screamed to Truman on the phone. “How could she! How could this happen!” Despite her rage and inner turmoil, to the rest of the world Lee displayed only sisterly devotion and delight in Jackie’s soon-to-be husband. Stas had tried to play the sophisticated husband understanding of his wife’s dalliances. Maybe he didn’t know what was going on each night in Peter’s bedroom in the villa near his, but he knew his wife was dismissing him. The pain was there, and his drinking grew worse.
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