American 'Royalty': Jackie Kennedy Onassis Quiz

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born on July 28, 1929, in Long Island, New York, to stockbroker John "Black Jack" Bouvier III and socialite Janet Lee. Jackie was named after both her father and mother Her sister, Caroline Lee, was born on March 3, 1933. She was always known as Lee. Jackie was baptised at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in Manhattan. Both sisters were raised as Catholics.

Her parents separated in 1936 and divorced in 1940. Her father never remarried but her mother married Hugh Auchincloss in 1942 (his third marriage). From this union the two Bouvier sisters gained two stepbrothers and a stepsister as well as, in time, a half-brother and half-sister. She was particularly close with Hugh Jr, known as "Yusha" who became one of her very few trusted confidants.

While Jackie's early childhood was spent in New York, She moved to McLean, VA, just outside DC on her new stepfather's estate when her mother remarried. She remained close to her father but also had a very good relationship with her stepfather: he gave her away when she married.

Jackie went to primary school at the Chapin School on Manhattan's Upper East Side. She was a good student, an avid reader who excelled at foreign languages, including French, Spanish and Italian. She also learned ballet and became an accomplished equestrienne. After her mother's remarriage and subsequent move near the capital, Jackie attended Holton-Arms School in Washington, DC, from 1942 to 1944 and Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, from 1944 to 1947 as a boarder. Miss Porter's was chosen because the school placed a high emphasis on college preparatory classes.

In 1947, after her debut in high society, she went to Vassar in Upstate New York and studied as part of her program at the University of Grenoble in Grenoble, southern France, and at the Sorbonne in Paris. When she returned to the US, she transferred to George Washington University in DC and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in French literature in 1951.

Jacqueline Bouvier won a one-year junior editorship at "Vogue" magazine which she won from several hundred women across the US. The position comprised working for six months in the New York City office and spending the other six months working out of Paris. However, on her first day, the managing editor advised her to return to Washington as she considered the 22-year-old too old to be single in social circles. Jackie took the advice and took a job as a part-time receptionist at the Washington Times-Herald. After a week, she asked for more challenging work and was given a journalist's job paying $25 per week despite being inexperienced. She was obviously successful as she was assigned to cover the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in London in June 1953.

During this time she was engaged briefly to stockbroker John Husted but she broke it off as she considered him "immature and boring".

Journalist Charles Bartlett introduced Jackie to John F. Kennedy at a dinner party in May 1952. The couple had similar interests including writing, reading and had similar Catholic values and both had lived abroad. JFK won the Massachusetts US Senate election race in November 1952 and proposed the day after.

She did not accept immediately as she had been posted to London to cover the February coronation of the Queen. When she returned, she accepted his proposal, quit her job at the newspaper and married JFK on September 12, 1953, before 700 guests.

He was 36, she was 24.

Jackie Kennedy had a miscarriage in 1955 and gave birth to a daughter Arabella a year later but tragically she was stillborn. So both parents were overjoyed when their daughter Caroline Bouvier came into the world, full of noise and activity.

Jackie and Caroline accompanied John on the 1958 senate campaign as they had been separated too much in their first five years of marriage due to political requirements. The senator found the crowds were bigger when Jackie joined him on the campaign trails he needed to ensure re-election. He was duly re-elected which he attributed to Jackie's presence and he publicly stated she was "simply invaluable".

In January 1960, JFK announced his candidacy for the US Presidential election in November. As Jackie was pregnant soon after, and because of her previous high-risk pregnancies, she stayed at their home in Georgetown. On November 8, JFK was elected president of the United States. On November 25, their son John F. Kennedy Jr. was born. The Presidential inauguration was in January 1961,

The young couple with young kids were a sensation in the popular press which portrayed Jackie as the ideal woman. Jackie was the first First Lady to hire a press secretary but made very few public statements and controlled the circumstances of how and when her children were photographed. However, she accompanied her husband on many political events including international occasions where, on occasion, she drew more press inches than her husband. She set the bar for future First Ladies. She also took on a massive project to restore the White House interior.

In 1963, Jackie became pregnant again so stopped all her official duties. On August 7, son Patrick was born five weeks before term. He died two days later from immature lungs. The couple grieved deeply. Jackie went into depression and a friend offered her his yacht as a place to recuperate. The trip was widely disapproved of by the government and by the general public.

Two public photos epitomise the tragedy of the assassination of President Kennedy. The first photograph depicts the swearing-in of Lyndon Johnson on Air Force One. Standing beside her is Jackie Kennedy, presumably in shock from the last few hours that nobody should have to endure - losing her husband in the most violent and brutal way whilst sitting next to him. She was wearing a pink suit which she was wearing when she sat next to her husband at the time of his assassination. When Mrs Kennedy was offered clean clothes and toiletries on the plane, she washed the blood off her face but then decided not to change. She wanted the world to see (through press photographs) what had been done to her husband.

The second photo was taken on the day of Mr Kennedy's funeral. It was also his son John's third birthday. In a press photo, one can see John Junior saluting as his father's coffin passes by in procession.

Yes, it was heinous that the US President was killed for holding the position he had been elected to. But it was a situation that no family should have to endure. He was also a father and a husband and that family were torn apart in those few days.

The dignity, composure and determination of Jackie Kennedy in getting her family through the worst possible time of their lives spoke volumes about the person she was. For those ambivalent about Mrs Kennedy before this tragedy could not but admire and respect the person she was after this horrific time in our history.

Jackie Onassis had always had a good relationship with JFK's younger brother Robert. After the assassination, she came to rely on Robert and he became a surrogate father for her children. When Robert announced he was going to run for President in 1968, Jackie campaigned for him. She was profoundly distressed when Robert was assassinated in June 1968 in Los Angeles while on the election campaign. She feared for her life and her two children. The New York Times in 2009 quoted her as saying at the time "If they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets ... I want to get out of this country".

Aristotle Onassis, the Greek shipping magnate who offered his hospitality when her son Patrick died, married her on his own private island in the Ionian Sea in October 1968. He was able to provide the security and privacy from the press she needed so much for herself and children. However, Aristotle's health deteriorated after his son died in a plane crash in 1973, (as did Jackie's son, John Junior in 1999). Aristotle died in 1975 aged 69. Jackie was a widow again.

After Aristotle Onassis, her second husband died in 1975, Jackie returned to the US permanently. She worked for Viking Press as a consulting editor. After two years she was hired by Doubleday as an associate editor. She was a keen participant in her brother-in-law, Ted Kennedy's nomination for the Democrat nomination for President in 1976.

She was an enthusiastic supporter of cultural and architectural preservation. Her biggest achievement was to save the NYC Grand Central Terminal from demolition and then supervise the renovation of the building. She was awarded the Fine Arts Federation medal for her devotion and advocacy of historic preservation in New York City.

In 1993, Jackie was thrown from a horse. She required hospitalisation and the fall was a contributing factor in the deterioration of her health for the next few months. A swollen lymph node at the time was diagnosed as an infection. By December she had additional symptoms and she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a metastatic blood malignancy. She continued to work while she received chemotherapy. However, by May the cancer had spread to her spinal cord, brain and her liver The prognosis was dire. She left the hospital in New York City on May 18th 1994 and died the following night. She was 64.

Her funeral mass was held a few blocks from her apartment in Manhattan at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola-the Catholic church where she was baptised in 1929. She was interred at the Arlington National Cemetery alongside her first husband and children Arabella and Patrick.