JFK memoirs to mistress go on sale

Love letters sent to a secret mistress by the assassinated US president John F Kennedy are to go on sale.

The letters addressed to his Swedish lover Gunilla von Post were written in the 1950s when Mr Kennedy was little more than an eager and burgeoning senator.

Although his love affair with Miss Post started before he married wife Jacqueline Bouvier, they were believed to have carried out an adulterous relationship for many years.

Excerpts from the memoirs, expected to fetch over £16,000 each at auction, have appeared in ABC News.

In one letter, dated June 28th 1954 - the summer after Kennedy's wedding - he wrote: "I might get a boat and sail around the Mediterranean for two weeks - with you as crew."

President Kennedy became almost as famed for his extramarital affairs as he did for his tragic death in 1963.

He even managed to get a bit of nookie from every man's pin up poster dream, Marilyn Monroe.

Mr Kennedy was not the first or the last US president to be found having a discreet relationship with an extra-marital lover.

In the mid-1990s it emerged Bill Clinton was having a bit on the side with Whitehouse employee Monica Lewinsky. But despite her husband's infidelity, his wife Hilary Clinton pledged to stand by her man, and her country.

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