Nation: I Missed My Family

In a bright pink suit and a mink beret, Jacqueline Kennedy set out for Buckingham Palace and lunch with Queen Elizabeth II. "I'm feeling full of beans and very excited," she said. "It's a great honor." Afterward, pressed for further comment, she said diplomatically: "I am deeply honored to have been invited by the Queen to lunch. I thought the Queen's clothes were just lovely." Late that day—after a visit to an antique shop in London's Fulham Road, where she purchased 20 pieces of 18th century French and English china—Jackie headed home.

Waiting at Washington's National Airport to greet his wife after...

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