20 iconic photos of life at sea

From the yachting clique of Hollywood's golden era to modern sailing icons, click through to see the stories behind some of the most iconic and glamorous images ever taken of life at sea...

Errol and Nora Flynn, Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles

Errol Flynn may not have made the cast list alongside Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles in the 1947 film noir The Lady from Shanghai, but his yacht Zaca clinched a starring role.

The 36 metre wooden schooner, launched by Nunes Brothers in California in 1930, belonged to the swashbuckling actor from 1946 until his death in 1959. In the Welles-directed movie Zaca stood in for the yacht belonging to lawyer Arthur Bannister, with whom Welles’s character Michael O’Hara gets tangled up in a fake murder plot that turns into a real one – the famous denouement taking place in a hall of mirrors. In this photograph, taken during a break in filming in 1946 in Acapulco, Mexico, Flynn and his wife Nora joined Hayworth and then-husband Welles to celebrate the actress’s birthday on board the boat.

The film was extensively reshot and brutally cut under the orders of Columbia Pictures boss Harry Cohn, who didn’t appreciate Welles’s documentary-style cinematography – pushing it vastly over budget – and the resulting movie was not a critical success. By the time it hit screens Hayworth and Welles were also finalising their divorce. Zaca passed through the hands of several owners after Flynn’s death in 1959, falling into disrepair, and was dogged by rumours of a rather merry haunting – sounds of a lively party emanating from the empty boat persisted so long that she underwent an exorcism in 1979. Fortunately, her current owner, Roberto Memmo, who bought her in 2008, has lovingly refitted her in classic style and she now continues to make star turns – although nowadays those are at Mediterranean regattas rather than on the silver screen.

Only in their early twenties and still adjusting to the perks of fame and fortune, the Beatles soak up every second of their time on board the 28.3 metre classic yacht Southern Trail in Miami. This picture was taken in 1964 during the height of Beatlemania and the Fab Four were celebrating their second successful appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show – a booking that garnered a television audience of over 70 million.

The boys were on board as guests of the yacht’s fourth owner, Bernard Castro (inventor of the sofa bed), and the band used the afternoon-long cruise as respite from the 21-strong entourage and hordes of fans awaiting them on shore.They swam in the ocean, lazed on deck and, as a thank you to their host, Paul McCartney played a few lines from their next single Can’t Buy Me Love at 
the yacht’s piano. When the band did eventually return to life back on land, the trip had given them a taste for the ocean and, after finishing their musical duties, they escaped to a private estate on Star Island in the back of a butcher’s truck to drive speedboats and water ski.

Two years later the Beatles went so far as to buy their own 38.6 metre sailing yacht Vagrant in an attempt to gain respite from superstardom.

It was then sold by the Apple music label in the early 1970s and operated as a restaurant in Madeira until 2013 when its licence ran out. A public dispute between the Madeiran government and the owner ensued over it use, but the yacht sank during a storm. And Southern Trail? She too later sank in Toronto but, at just 10 metres down, has now become one of the area’s most popular dive sites.

An avid sailor, President John F Kennedy boarded the destroyer USS Joseph P Kennedy Jr with the First Lady in glorious sunshine to watch the first race of the 1962 America’s Cup in Newport. The occasion marked the first challenge for the Auld Mug being mounted by a country other than Great Britain or Canada as the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron’s Gretel, backed by media mogul Frank Packer, went up against the New York Yacht Club’s Weatherly.

The President gave a speech at a lavish gala dinner at The Breakers estate the night before, famously declaring his love for the sea. “All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears,” he said. “We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea – whether it is to sail or to watch it – we are going back from whence we came.”

Weatherly was victorious in the first race in front of her distinguished spectators but three days later Gretel managed to level the series – the first time an American team had been beaten since the 1930s. However, this was short-lived as the defenders fought back to win the following three races, once again securing the oldest trophy in sport for the US. Despite defeat, Australian passion was sparked and more than two decades later the nation claimed victory on board Australia II, breaking 132 years of American domination.

Seen here drinking in the Italian sunshine on board a yacht in Capri with her eldest daughter Pia Lindström, few would guess that Ingrid Bergman had just suffered the biggest fall from grace of her career. This picture was taken in the early 1950s, not long after the start of Bergman’s marriage to director Roberto Rossellini. Their affair had scandalised Hollywood and son Robin was born out of wedlock. The ensuing public furore forced Bergman to leave Hollywood and set up home in Italy with her saintly image in tatters.

After all, it was Bergman’s angelic looks and the wholesome parts offered to her by David Selznick that won her a legion of fans, starring roles in classics including Casablanca and Gaslight – and her first husband, Petter Lindström. In fact, so taken with Bergman’s intense good looks was Lindström that he had Ferrari develop a new colour to match the pale grey of her eyes. Of course, it wasn’t long before the yachting

world caught on and Grigio Ingrid has adorned a number of hulls over the years – including on the Foster + Partners-designed 30 metre WallyDark Shadow.

Like her marriage to Rossellini, which ended in 1957, Bergman’s exile did not last long and she went on to add two more Oscars to her already laden trophy cabinet. Her time in Italy did, however, allow her to discover the joy of life at sea and she was often a guest on board Humphrey Bogart’s yacht Santana. Perhaps it was during a moment of peaceful on-deck reflection that she coined one of her most famous phrases: “Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”

Pictured here in Germany in 1931 wearing her signature sailor’s suit and sporting the distinctive bob that made her an icon of flapper style, Louise Brooks is every inch the silver screen starlet. Just two years earlier she had found fame in Europe in Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s controversial masterpiece Pandora’s Box but life as a major actress never sat easily with Brooks. Having stepped onto the boat to Germany after being blacklisted by Hollywood’s Paramount Pictures in 1929, she was open about her hatred of the studio system, saying: “There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.”

Her reputation as a fashion trendsetter, however, is one that Brooks fully embraced. A leading figure of the Roaring Twenties, her taste for lavish furs, beaded gowns, velvet jackets and sleek suits made her a style pin-up throughout her career. Brooks’s real treasures, however, came from beneath the waves, with long strings of pearls becoming something of a trademark after her turn as the chic yet conniving showgirl Margaret Odell in 1929’s The Canary Murder Case.

Brooks’s film career had sadly faded by 1938, reducing her to work as a shop assistant and call girl throughout the 1940s. Yet because her combination of sharp bob, glistening pearls and cocktail dress came to epitomise 1920s fashion in the modern era, her opulent look is

what she is remembered for above all else. After all, as she once said: “A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.”

As charter guests go, they don’t come much more fabulous than Elizabeth Taylor. This picture was taken in 1959 on board 36 metre classic yacht Olnico, which the Hollywood star chose for her honeymoon with singer Eddie Fisher in the French Riviera.

Although the marriage was not to last, the trip made international headlines and secured Olnico a future as a household name. Five years later the vessel would even follow in her patron’s footsteps and land a starring role on the silver screen in French comedy Le Gendarne de Saint Tropez alongside Louis de Funès.

Designed by Charles E Nicholson and launched in 1932 as Cacouna, Taylor’s honeymoon was not the yacht’s first brush with stardom. In 1937 she was bought by Leslie Leroy Irvin – a Hollywood stuntman who made a fortune developing a new static line parachute – but the vessel hit tougher times when she was commissioned for war work in 1939.

Despite her post-war heyday, the yacht has spent the last 16 years under private ownership and in relative anonymity as Dear B in the waters of southern Turkey. Her future, however, looks bright with restoration work due to begin imminently at Dunya Yachts. Commissioned under the watchful eye of GL Watson & Co – the world’s oldest yacht design firm which recently oversaw the refit of fellow Charles E Nicholson design Malahne – the sensitive 30 month restoration promises to save 60 per cent of Cacouna’s interiors and retain her elegant style.

With enough room for an entourage and a look primed for Instagram, this beautiful classic yacht is once again set to become a celebrity charterer’s dream.

Beautiful, bold and smiling despite the chilly British weather, Amy Johnson (right) and Anna Neagle represent two opposite but equally admirable ideals of 1930s adventure. This picture was taken at the opening of speedboat season in Hendon, England in March 1931. Though they look at home on the water, it’s the sky and screen respectively for which they are famous. Just a few months later Johnson became a record-breaking aviatrix, while Neagle found fame playing the lead in 1934’s Nell Gwynn.

What these women shared was a fearless spirit and the ability to offer light in the darkest of times. “Clichés like ‘blazing trails’, flying over ‘shark-infested seas’, ‘battling with monsoons’ and ‘forced landings amongst savage tribes’ became a familiar diet for breakfast,” Johnson once said of her unprecedented solo flights to Russia, South Africa and, most famously, Australia in a second-hand de Havilland Gipsy Moth named Jason.

Back in the UK, Neagle had a reputation as the go-to girl for bringing glamour and fun to war-torn London with her light-hearted musicals. But she, too, yearned for new horizons, writing in Woman magazine in 1959: “What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few days and a few weeks’ rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?”

For Johnson, it was her intrepid spirit that would lead to her demise. In January 1941 her plane came down in bad weather over the Thames Estuary. She bailed out but was sucked into the propeller of the HMS Haslemere as the ship’s crew tried to rescue her. Her body was never found but her bravery was rewarded posthumously with an Albert Medal.

“The only cause my husband Humphrey Bogart ever gave me to be jealous was not of a woman but a boat – a racing yacht called Santana,” recalled the late actress Lauren Bacall in her memoirs. Bogie was actually a respected helmsman – he won the San Clemente Island Race three years in a row on his beloved Santana, a 16.7 metre schooner.

This photograph was taken in 1946 just a year after he and Bacall married. They’d met two years previously on the set of To Have and Have Not and fallen in love, despite the fact that Bogart was married to his third wife, the actress Mayo Methot, and there was a 25-year age difference.

Sailing was a passion for Bogart but not for Bacall. “I didn’t want to sail, I wanted children,” she said. She got her wish and, in January 1949, the couple had a son, Stephen, named after Bogie’s character’s nickname in To Have and Have Not; their daughter Leslie followed three years later.

Santana was named after Santa Ana, the hot, katabatic winds that often cause havoc in Southern California in the autumn and winter. Bogart was passionate about her. “An actor needs something to stabilise his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is pretending to be,” he said.

Not that it was always plain sailing on board. His fellow sailors were recruited from the Holmby Hills Rat Pack, so included the likes of Frank Sinatra, David Niven, Richard Burton and Ingrid Bergman. Bogart preferred an all-male crew – for convenience’s sake: “The trouble with dames on board is that you can’t pee over the side.” At his funeral in 1957, a model of Santana stood on display in the pulpit.

Sexy, glamorous and oozing charisma, French actress Brigitte Bardot burst into the public consciousness in the 1950s, becoming one of the most photographed women in the world. It was And God Created Woman, the directorial debut of her first husband, Roger Vadim, that put both Bardot and the charming, quiet fishing village of St Tropez on the map when it was released in 1956. The film was a huge hit but spelt the end of Bardot’s marriage when she ran off with co-star Jean-Louis Trintignant. He left his wife only for Bardot to drop him two years later when she began an affair with the singer Gilbert Bécaud.

This photograph, taken on 5 June 1959, shows Bardot christening Babette, the yacht of film producer Raoul Lévy. She played the lead in his comedy, Babette Goes to War, released in the same year. Unsurprisingly, the serial seductress fell for the charms of actor Jacques Charrier on set. They married that year and had a son, Nicolas-Jacques, in 1960. Motherhood did not come easily to Bardot, with Charrier taking custody of their son when the marriage ended in 1962.

Bardot went on to have affairs with actor Warren Beatty and singer Serge Gainsbourg (among others) and married the German playboy Gunter Sachs in Las Vegas in 1966. He wooed the siren by dropping roses into her St Tropez garden from a helicopter. Despite the romantic gesture, this wasn’t a lasting union and the couple went their separate ways three years later.

Bardot announced her departure from cinema in 1973 and still lives in St Tropez with her fourth husband, Bernard d’Ormale.

Relaxed, bohemian and undeniably sexy, French singer/songwriter Serge Gainsbourg and English actress Jane Birkin were the undisputed cool couple of the late Sixties and Seventies.

This photograph was taken during the 1969 Cannes Film Festival. The lovers had met on the set of the French romantic drama Slogan. According to her brother Andrew, Jane was not immediately enamoured with her co-star. “He’s horrible,” she said. “Who?” Andrew had asked. “Serge Bourguignon!”

How things changed. The couple cemented their racy image in 1969 with the infamous love song Je t’aime… moi non plus, in which Jane’s breathy moans simulated an orgasm. The song was denounced by the Vatican and banned from the radio waves in many countries, which only boosted its popularity.

Serge and Jane’s relationship was a passionate and fiery one. Once, during a row, she threw a custard pie in his face and then threw herself into the Seine, shrinking her Yves Saint Laurent top in the process, much to Gainsbourg’s delight. Peace was quickly restored. “I clambered out and we gaily walked home arm in arm,” recalls Birkin.

The couple were together for 10 years, until she finally lost patience with his drinking. They had a daughter, Charlotte, who is also an actress. Despite Jane running off with film director Jacques Doillon, the couple remained good friends until Serge’s death in 1991. Serge was buried with Munckey, Birkin’s childhood toy monkey.

Audrey Hepburn was as glamorous as her many on-screen characters. Here, the 25-year-old actress is captured in August 1954 on a lake in Bürgenstock, Switzerland, where she was with her fiancé, the director and actor Mel Ferrer.

The couple had been introduced at a London party the previous December by Hepburn’s Roman Holiday co-star Gregory Peck. The film had catapulted her to fame and earned her the Best Actress Oscar. Hepburn later told an interviewer of that first meeting with Ferrer: “I liked him… but that was all. He’d seen me in Gigi and we talked about doing a play together, the way actors and actresses do.”

Unsurprisingly, Ferrer duly sent a script of the French play Ondine and the rehearsals began in New York in January 1954. Ferrer quickly proposed and the actress signalled her acceptance by giving him a platinum watch that was inscribed with the words of the popular Noël Coward song Mad About the Boy. They married in Switzerland that September and honeymooned at Villa Rolli, 20 minutes south of Rome.

The couple had a son, Sean, in January 1960. Hepburn soon returned to New York to play society call girl Holly Golightly in the film adaptation of Truman Capote’s novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s. The role, for which she was Oscar-nominated, cemented her place as a Hollywood great and a style icon. The legacy of sleeveless dresses, oversized sunglasses and the classic Tiffany strands of pearls lives on and was rather more enduring than the marriage, which ended in 1968.

It was built as a chic retreat for writers and artists more than a century ago, but the muse has never left Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes. Loyal guests have included George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Hemingway; Marc Chagall sketched in the cabanas; Pablo Picasso hand drew the menu and Rita Hayworth was introduced to her future husband, Prince Aly Khan, in the dining room.

Marlene Dietrich, pictured here by the hotel’s distinctive rockside pool in typically leggy splendour, provided one of the hotel’s most notorious anecdotes in 1939, conducting an affair with the novelist Erich Maria Remarque under the nose of her patient husband, the producer Rudolf Sieber.

Deitrich enjoyed a starry parade of overlapping lovers through the 30s and 40s but remained essentially loyal to Sieber, reputedly passing on the adoring letters of her beaus – annotated acidly – for his amusement. Even fellow guest Hemingway was under her thrall, but they never consummated their relationship because they were so rarely in the same place at the same time. He called them “victims of unsynchronised passion”.

Today, film stars, fashion designers and rock gods still vie for Eden-Roc rooms, with elbows particularly sharp during the Cannes Film Festival in May. The gang, including Johnny Depp and Karl Lagerfeld, sip bubbles at the rooftop Champagne Lounge, chill out at the Sisley spa and – we hope – create a new cache of glamorous anecdotes to be revealed in another 100 years.

Confident, stylish and oozing wolfish charm, here Aristotle Socrates Onassis, arguably the greatest playboy of the 20th century, can be seen leaning against the rail of his yacht, Christina, in Monaco in 1955. The shipping tycoon had bought the decommissioned warship in 1954 and spent £4 million creating the opulent superyacht where he would play host to key players of the age, including Winston Churchill and John F Kennedy.

In many ways Onassis was the father of superyachting, creating this opulent palace in an age of austerity. Stars of stage and screen including Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Rudolph Nureyev, Elizabeth Taylor and celebrity sailor Richard Burton all swept down the silver and onyx staircase and most probably sat on the bar stools upholstered in the foreskin of a minke whale.

The boat was a vehicle of seduction and in the summer of 1959 he seduced the Greek opera singer Maria Callas on board, right under the nose of her husband Giovanni Meneghini and his own wife Tina, the daughter of influential ship owner Stavros Livanos. Livanos, Onassis and his brother-in-law Stavros Niarchos were the most powerful shipping magnates in the world. Onassis knew the power of a strategic marriage and despite Callas being the love of his life (and the affair breaking up both their marriages) he married Jackie Kennedy, who was by then the president’s widow and most powerful woman in the world, on board Christina in 1968.

Sun-hazed in the Bahamian heat and clutching a glass of something cool, supermodel Carmen Dell’Orefice could be scanning the dock for her errant captain in this 1959 shot for British Vogue magazine by the late, great Norman Parkinson.

It is hard to appreciate today, when high-end fashion shoots almost always take place in glamorous locations, but informal images such as this were a fresh phenomenon in the 1950s.

Parkinson was instrumental in effecting the evolution from staid studio shoots to outdoor photography that displayed not only the clothes but the people living in them. He recognised that, when it comes to haute couture, what you are really buying is the lifestyle.

Since this image was taken Dell’Orefice has earned herself a few pages in fashion history, too. The American first appeared on a Vogue cover at the age of 15, in 1946, was the cover star of US Vogue the next year and was a muse to Salvador Dalí, but her most remarkable achievement is to have subverted the traditional trajectory of a modelling career.

She first retired shortly after this photo was taken, but returned to work in the late 1970s and now, aged 84, is a regular on the catwalk and in glossy fashion rags. Her revival has been such that she has had more magazine covers during the past 25 years than in the rest of her career. Like Parkinson’s photographs – and, indeed, the sexy little motor boat she’s standing on in this image – Dell’Orefice is a classic.

The mustard-yellow chopper gives away the decade but otherwise this shot, captured in 1976 by the society photographer Slim Aarons from a helicopter in Monaco, could easily be part of a new photo shoot for this magazine.

The Feadship motor yacht Nobla, then Lac II, is fresh from her 1975 launch and piled high with toys and treats, including a sleek Donzi speedboat. Reclining and shoeless, her American owner Roy J. Carver looks understandably proud of the 40 metre – a seriously big yacht for the time (she would have been among the 100 largest in the world) – as he chats to Jean-Héracle, seventh Duke of Polignac.

It is a long way from the beginnings of Carver’s success story, running a pump factory in Illinois during the Great Depression. By the early 1970s his tyre-retreading business Bandag had earned him a fortune estimated at $300 million. When this photograph was taken he owned homes in Cannes and Miami and had flown solo from Newfoundland to Paris in a single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza.

But as for so many, no experience or prize compared to the feeling of being on his own boat. And being on your own boat in Monaco is like taking your favourite outfit for a stride down the catwalk. The principality’s waters may have filled up with other superyachts since this photo was taken, but that just means more admiring glances from the few people in the world who know exactly how you feel.

This is the “other” image of Talitha Getty by Patrick Lichfield. The better-known confluence of his skill and her potent glamour is the 1969 photograph of the socialite sprawling on the roof terrace of a Marrakesh residence she shared with her husband Jean Paul Getty Jr.

This image, taken just one year after the rooftop picture, shows a different Talitha: relaxed and natural on board Antinoo, the yacht of Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach, last scion of Germany’s Krupp steel dynasty. Only the tassels on her kaftan and oriental cuff hint at her nine-to-five job as queen bee of the late-1960s’ coolest clique.

She looks like a healthy, normal (if uncommonly beautiful) young woman; yet only a year later Talitha would die of a heroin overdose at 30, two weeks after Jim Morrison (with whom she reputedly shared a drug dealer). Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Edie Sedgwick followed in quick succession. This is, then, a postcard from the edge, a snapshot of happiness before the lights went out on the 1960s.

Sophia Loren smoulders with, of all handicaps, the role of a fishmonger in this shot from the set of 1955 film Scandal in Sorrento. Although the yacht doesn’t hurt her cause.

The Italian designers Dolce and Gabbana have said that they consider both Sicily and Loren in every collection, her sensuality a part of their aesthetic. Indeed, to modern eyes this film feels like one long D&G advert: sunny, saturated colours, gelato on the dockside, creaking sailing boats in the Bay of Naples – even the romantic hero, a fisherman, dons a blazer, jaunty cap and artfully battered suitcase for the final scene.

When this photograph was taken Loren had reached the zenith of the Italian film industry, about to break onto the international scene in a five-picture contract with Paramount. Over the next decade she earned riches and awards, including a Best Actress Oscar and the then-extraordinary pay packet of $1 million to star in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), with James Mason. But Loren would never look quite so in her element as she did on a yacht in the Bay of Naples, in the mid 1950s.

Cary Grant, seen here dressed head to toe in Kilgour and probably wishing he was wearing a pair of sunglasses, was what fellow actor David Niven described as a GBS – great big star. The Bristol-born actor was a colossus on the Hollywood stage, remaining one of Tinseltown’s most bankable stars for almost 30 years.

One of his most memorable roles was as Nickie Ferrante in 1957’s An Affair to Remember, which makes our pick of the biggest boating films of all time. In it, he meets Terry McKay, played by Deborah Kerr, aboard a transatlantic ocean liner, and the two fall in love, vowing to meet in six months’ time atop the Empire State Building. In a case of life imitating art, Grant met two of his five wives on similar vessels: No.2, heiress Barbara Hutton; and No.3, actress Betsy Drake – who herself had a few boat stories to tell, after surviving the Andrea Doria disaster in 1956. The liner struck another ship off the coast of Massachusetts, resulting in 52 deaths.

Errol Flynn was a sailing legend long before he was an acting one. In 1930, aged just 18, he sparked headlines in towns all the way up Australia’s east coast with a bawdy sailing adventure that took him 3,000 miles from Sydney Harbour to New Guinea.

His yacht was the 13.5 metre Sirocco, a 50-year-old slash of teak, but how she came into the young man’s possession remains a matter of debate – he won her in a card game, one legend goes, another that he sobered up one morning to discover he had acquired her while drunk. More likely, the cutter was bought by his mother as a way of giving direction and perhaps a career to her already wandering and wild son.

With Flynn as captain, he and three friends set off from Sydney in February with little or no sailing experience, taking seven months to complete the voyage instead of the planned six weeks. The foursome left a trail of empty bottles and broken hearts all the way up the coast, with the rakish Flynn even inspiring one beautiful young girl to jump in the sea and swim after his boat. He later wrote an account of this adventure in the book Beam Ends.

This photo was taken in 1941, at the height of Flynn’s stardom, and shows him climbing the mast of his second Sirocco, a 23 metre mahogany ketch. He adored the yacht and owned her till his death in 1959. She survives and is today known as Karenita.

It’s August 1962 and gossip pages the world over are about to go into meltdown over rumours of an affair between Jackie Kennedy, wife of the US president, and Gianni Agnelli, the richest, most stylish man in Italy. Jackie had arrived in Italy on 8 August with children Caroline and John, choosing Ravello on the Amalfi coast as her holiday hideaway, at the suggestion of writer Gore Vidal. This photo, taken on 13 August, shows the growing closeness of the 30-year-old Kennedy and industrialist Agnelli, as they stroll down the Ravello quayside to his 25 metre mahogany yawl.

Throughout Kennedy’s three weeks in Ravello, Agnelli was her constant companion, sparking rumours of an affair eventually confirmed by Vidal. Agnelli, later the owner of Fiat, and at one point responsible for 4.4 per cent of Italy’s GDP and employer of 3.1 per cent of its industrial workforce, was renowned for his distinctive style, which included wearing his watch on the outside of his impeccably tailored shirts. It was enough to draw the eye of the beautiful Jackie, then reeling from stories about her husband’s involvement with star Marilyn Monroe, who had died in murky circumstances just days before her trip.

Jackie’s small slice of la dolce vita wasn’t to last, however. She was summoned home by her husband when he grew tired of images of his wife and Agnelli in the newspapers with a simple telegram: “More Caroline, less Agnelli.”