"I Missed My Family"

In a bright pink suit and a mink beret, Jacqueline Kennedy set out for Buckingham Palace and lunch with Queen Elizabeth II. "I'm feeling full of beans and very excited," she said. "It's a great honor." Afterward, pressed for further comment, she said diplomatically: "I am deeply honored to have been invited by the Queen to lunch. I thought the Queen's clothes were just lovely." Late that day--after a visit to an antique shop in London's Fulham Road, where she purchased 20 pieces of 18th century French and English china--Jackie headed home.

Waiting at Washington's National Airport to greet his wife after her three-week visit to Europe, India and Pakistan was President Kennedy. As the beige and white family Convair, Caroline, wheeled around to a stop in front of the terminal, Kennedy walked up the aluminum ladder into the cabin. Moments later, Jack and Jackie emerged, smiling happily. Said Jackie, in a statement released later by Assistant White House Press Secretary Andrew Hatcher: "I have missed my family and have no desire to be a public personality on my own. If people were kind to me, it was because I was the wife of the President--so the people were showing their affection for him and he should have been there to receive it."

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