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The story explores Nora’s close ties to the Kennedy family, her observations of public tragedy, and her witty, practical outlook on life, devotion, and social rituals. Through episodes and chapters, it follows how a dynasty’s legend is cultivated step by step, blending private loyalty with the glare of fame.","The Importance of Being Kennedy  \nA Novel  \nLaurie Graham  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTo Jeremy Magorian, Venice’s very own Mrs. Thrale  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nPrelude  \n1 Accidentally, Through the Keyhole  \n2 The Right Kind of Family  \n3 The Trouble with Blood Fitzwilliam  \n4 A Perfect Little Doll  \n5 AWasher and a Dryer and Separate Beds  \n6 Two-Toilet Irish  \n7 Three Categories of Feeble-mindedness  \n8 Learning the Ways of the Enemy  \n9 Another Little Blessing  \n10 Kennedys Everywhere, Like a Rash  \n11 The Sacred Duties of a Wife  \n12 No Crybabies, No Losers  \n13 An Anniversary Trip for One  \n14 Something in the Blood  \n15 The Queen of Bronxville, the Queen of England, and Walter  \nStallybrass  \n16 The Fox Supervises the Henhouse and Mr. Chamberlain Goes to  \nMunich  \n17 Other People’s Babies  \n18 Our Pope  \n19 The Season at the End of the World  \n20 Keeping Going with a Cheery Smile  \n21 Future Prospects Unknown  \n22 Everything by the Book  \n23 An Insult of a Cake  \n24 The Broken Doll  \n25 Girl on a Bicycle  \n26 ATrainee Duchess  \n27 The Beginning of the End  \n28 AReal Winner, with a Bit of Grooming  \n29 AKennedy Poodle  \n30 Perpetual Light  \n31 The Latest Thing for Diseases of the Mind  \n32 The Official Black Sheep  \n33 The Irish Card  \n34 The Trouble with Blood  \n35 A Day of Tears  \n36 The View from Stalin’s Sty  \nAuthor’s Note  \nAbout the Author  \nOther Books by Laurie Graham  \nCopyright  \nAbout the Publisher  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPrelude  \nI happened to be in London in January 1970, when I got a call from my New York office to say my aunt Nora had died. We were just finishing up the photo shoot for a big piece on platform shoes for Sassy! magazine, so I was able to get away to Derbyshire in time for her funeral. Darling Aunt Nora, who started life three to a bed in Ballynagore, had a duke and a duchess at her Requiem Mass. If Aunt Ursie had lived to hear that, she’d have popped her corset bones.  \nI didn’t really get to know Aunt Nora till she ferreted me out in Saks Formal Wear in 1947 and stood me lunch. She had a nifty figure and beautiful skin for a woman in her fifties. She was wearing an old-fashioned tweed suit, I remember, petrol-blue, fully lined, with a great corded buttonhole detail. Very classy.  \n“It’s one of the perks of working for a lady who keeps up with trends,”she said.“When the rest of the world won’t be seen dead in a garment, it can always be passed along to the help.”  \nWe hit it off right away. She’d been a distant figure when I was a kid.“Your aunt Nora’s with the Kennedys,” Mom used to say, and as we had another aunt, who was a nun in Africa, I pictured Aunt Nora in a grass skirt  \nand the Kennedys as some kind of tribe. In a sense, I suppose I was on the right track.  \nAunt Nora was a blast. I relished the letter that came every year with her Christmas card, her annual report on life as a gardener ’s wife on the great Chatsworth estate of the Duke of Devonshire.“Another twelve months of ’tater peelings,” as she described it. She outlived four of the nine Kennedy babies she’d raised. When Jack was killed in 1963, she wrote me that she hadn’t watched the funeral. She said,“Stallybrass was glued to the telly all afternoon but I walked to Hassop and prayed the rosary till it was over. I don’t care for the telly myself. They tell you the same thing over andover. I don’t mind Walter watching it and I’ll sit with him for company, but I turn my chair the other way and get on with my knitting. Anyway, I kept the death watch over Jack Kennedy more times than the sands are numbered and I could have swung for him once or twice too, little devil that he was. It’s Mrs. Kennedy my heart goes out to now. This is surely too much even for that tough little nut to endure.”  \nBobby Kennedy’s death, and old Joe Kennedy’s, she hardly mentioned. Her own health was failing by then, though I didn’t realize it. 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