1.   But it is also a country that elevates the Kennedys to American royalty and mourns the death of Princess Diana as though she were our own.

2.   But the reference to royalty, with no irony, reminds us that we have no American royalty, nor will celebrity roll out the carpet to any Restoration.

3.   From them, we find out much more about the complex personality of this poor little rich girl who became, upon her first marriage, American royalty.

4.   Kessler tells the tawdry tale of the family that was once the closest thing to American royalty.

5.   Yet the private lives of the Kennedys have long been treated as public property, and the Kennedy family members as American royalty.