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Sister of Jacueline Bouvier Kennedy. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1996.
Caroline Lee Bouvier was born on March 3, 1933 in New York to Janet Norton Lee and John V. "Black Jack" Bouvier. She was the younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy. Caroline, called Lee after her maternal grandfather James T. Lee, lived in posh penthouse apartments until her parents split up when she was only a couple of years old. Several years after that her mother married Hugh D. Auchincloss and she got two step- brothers and a step-sister as well as a half-brother and half-sister.
During her childhood Lee went to boarding schools, just like her older sister. She went to Miss Porter's, a famous boarding school and as a graduation present Jackie took her on a trip to Europe for a summer before going to college.
Lee has been married three times.
Her first marriage. in April 1953, was to Michael Temple Canfield, a publishing executive who had been adopted as an infant by the American publisher Cass Canfield. Canfield's mother was the American socialite Kiki Preston. Caroline and Canfield divorced in 1959, and the marriage was annulled by the Roman Catholic Church in November 1962.[1]
Her second marriage, on March 19, 1959, was to the Polish prince Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł, who divorced his second wife, the former Grace Maria Kolin and received a Roman Catholic annulment of his first marriage to marry the former Mrs. Canfield. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1974.
On September 23, 1988, Lee became the second wife of American film director and choreographer Herbert Ross. They divorced in 2001, shortly before his death.
She had two children: Anthony Stanislas Albert Radziwill and Anna Christina Radziwill.
Caroline Lee died on 15 Feb 2019.[2]
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