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...Beverly Farms home in Massachusetts, Lucy's daughter and only child, Mrs. Robert W. Knowles, revealed that her mother and father, Socialite Winthrop Rutherfurd, were wed in 1920 in a simple Roman Catholic ceremony in a private home, the unusual location being permitted because one of Widower Rutherfurd's five chil dren by his previous marriage had recently died. Lucy, her daughter said, was a devout Catholic, a fact that, together with F.D.R.'s political ambitions, is said to have kept her and F.D.R. from marrying. After Lucy's marriage, Mrs. Knowles added, she and F.D.R...
...Many recalled the secret visit that F.D.R. paid Lucy Rutherfurd at her 1,500-acre estate in Allamuchy, N.J., in September 1944, six months after the death of her husband. Detouring on a trip from Washington to Hyde Park, F.D.R.'s private train pulled into Allamuchy around 2:30 a.m. At mid-morning he was lifted off in his wheelchair, visited with Mrs. Rutherfurd until 5:30 p.m. State Trooper Joseph J. Skelly, now 55, recalled that F.D.R., then campaigning for his fourth term, "looked very drawn...
...Rutherfurd himself had an intriguing romance as a youth. In 1895 he had been secretly engaged to Railroad Heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, whose marriage to the Duke of Marlborough was annulled years later by the Sacred Rota of the Roman Catholic Church on the ground that she had loved Rutherfurd but had been forced to marry Marlborough by her domineering mother...
...save." Nonetheless, F.D.R. and Lucy were to be "attached by ties of deep and unbroken affection to the day he died." By all accounts, F.D.R. thereafter kept in frequent contact with Lucy. For example, says Daniels, he "quietly arranged for special tickets and a special car for Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd at his Inauguration" in 1933. He also visited the Rutherfurds' stately winter home in Aiken, S.C., several times, and the Rutherfurds called at the White House. Daniels says that Lucy visited the Little White House at Warm Springs, Ga., on several occasions. In fact, though her presence was unpublicized...
...Rutherfurd died in a New York City hospital in 1948, in her 58th year. Last week her daughter, Mrs. Robert W. Knowles of Aiken, called Daniels' disclosures "quite a surprise to me." It was quite a surprise to a lot of people, and more details are bound to come out in the future. Daniels, for one, who called the liaison "nothing shameful" and "the beautiful affair of a great lady and a gentleman," intimated that he is considering following up his coup with a full-length account of "one of the great love stories of American history...