Thursday, July 23, 2009

The "Swimming Ring" of Jackie and Carolyn















When JFK Jr. proposed to Carolyn he gave her a ring purportedly based on his mother's favorite ring--dubbed her "swimming ring." Jackie received it as a gift from Maurice Templesman and it was a combination of sapphires and emeralds. She would occasionally wear it with her wedding band from JFK but, more often than not, by itself. Before receiving the swimming ring, Jackie wore her wedding bands from JFK and Ari Onassis stacked one on top of another but her sentiments for "MT" prevailed and for the last decade of her life, the swimming ring rarely left her hand. Carolyn's ring is on the right and next to it is Jackie's.