Jackie Kennedy has done many notable things in her life, including attending some of the celebrations during Queen Elizabeth's coronation. Back in the '50s, when Kennedy was known as Jacqueline Bouvier, she was a young reporter working in London. She ended up crashing one of the celebratory ****** for the Queen, spending the evening alongside some of the era's most notorious figures.
Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1952 (PA Images)
As reported by InStyle, Caroline Hallemann explained that, at the time, Jackie worked as a photographer-reporter for The Washington Times-Herald and was covering the coronation. While she didn't attend the coronation itself, she attended a ball hosted by the American Socialite Perle Mesta. She secured access by telling Mesta that she was the daughter of some of his old friends in America.
The tale is explored in her book, "The Kennedys and the Windsors: The Story of Two Dynasties, One Born, One Made," which claims that she attended the party alongside figures like Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, and Prince Jean of Luxembourg.
John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier cutting their wedding cake after their marriage in Newport, Rhode Island (Bettmann Archive)

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