86. Stardust | Kathleen “Kick” (Kennedy) Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington and The Kennedy Family from 1940
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
We conclude January with the conclusion of Kick Kennedy's story and her Kennedy family too, from 1940 onward. World War II is only one of the catastrophes playing out within this decade for the family.
Included is all of Kick's arc, and well as her siblings, Joe Jr. and Rosemary too. What a legacy these three souls have - then and now.
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Further Reading
Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter, by Barbara Leaming (Amazon link)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dun & Dun. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn, where nothing is linear and everything is connected. |
| 0:11.5 | Thank you for joining me today for the conclusion of the story of Kit Kennedy, especially as it intertwines with her very famous family and brings together so many of our threads |
| 0:23.1 | over these last few months. We have made it into our investigation into the launch of the Second |
| 0:29.6 | World War in 1940 for Kick and her Kennedy family. Then so many wonderful and terrible things |
| 0:36.8 | will happen in short order, the war being only one of |
| 0:40.5 | them. The decade of the 1940s are filled with many highs and the lowest of lows for the Kennedy |
| 0:47.4 | family, claiming both the lives of Joe Jr. and Kick, and furthermore, Rosemary in a way, too, leaving the Kennedy family |
| 0:56.3 | forever altered and very much living in haunted memories of the family that was once so much |
| 1:04.1 | together in everything they did. Star Dust. The musical classic by Hogi Car Michaelael is our theme today, with lyrics that I think |
| 1:14.2 | very much could pertain to the Kennedys in the decade of the 40s and beyond. Gone but never |
| 1:20.7 | forgotten, so to speak. The lyrics of Star Dust. Sometimes I wonder how I spend the lonely night dreaming of a song. The melody |
| 1:31.1 | haunts my reverie, and I am once again with you when our love was new and each kiss an inspiration. |
| 1:39.3 | But that was long ago, and now my consolation is in the stardust of a song. Besides the garden wall, when the |
| 1:47.1 | stars are bright, you are in my arms. The nightingale tells his fairy tale of paradise where roses grew. |
| 1:56.1 | Though I dream in vain in my heart, it will remain. My stardust melody, a memory of love's refrain. |
| 2:05.5 | So much about the future will be spent for Kick and her family in a stardust melody and a memory |
| 2:13.6 | of love's refrain. Let's investigate. |
| 2:17.2 | Music memory of love's refrain. Let's investigate. In folding ourselves back into this story, let us remember the whirlwind love affair between |
| 2:39.2 | Kit Kennedy and Billy. |
| 2:41.6 | Ah, the Marquess of Hardington, Billy Cavendish, ready to be the Duke of Devonshire one day. |
| 2:48.1 | Kick and Billy meet in the summer of 1938, and it was a whirlwind love affair that included |
| 2:54.2 | fancy dinners in London, lavish parties in the country, trips to the races at Newmarket. Newmarket is |
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