In BLACK Diamonds, author Catherine Bailey reveals the unusual story of the Fitzwilliams, one of the richest families in Great Britain, the owners of one of the biggest houses ever built in the world to that time, and their coal fortune that made them but was broken when Great Britain took over during World War II, stripping their land for coal.
This is the grand family that American socialite Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy wanted to marry into, and the hell with the fact that this second marriage would not only be into another Anti-Catholic family, but to a man who was married with a child and not divorced when she met him.
Though we know from previous reading that Kathleen was being supported by her inlaws after her first husband was killed in the War, and had independent means as a child of the rich American Joe Kennedy family, she aimed higher in her desire to marry another risk taker, Peter Wentworth - 8th Earl Fitzwilliam.
There was no talking sense to her.
It's clear to me from reading this book that the Fitzwilliams would not be an easy family to belong to. They had their secret scandals, including questions of who was qualified to be heir, and, had she not died in that plane crash, after receiving the assurance that her father would not completely abandon her if she did marry Peter, one wonders if she really would have done well to marry him.
In our desire to better understand Kick and what drove her, BLACK DIAMONDS provides more perspective.
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