Ambassador Kennedy — Again?

Caroline Kennedy’s grandfather, Joseph P. Kennedy, was appointed by FDR as Ambassador to England in 1938, where he served ignominiously, gaining a reputation as a Jew-hater who didn’t recognize the Nazi threat. His son, Joe Jr., would later be blown to bits when his war mission plane full of explosives was hit. But I digress.

Now it’s 70 years later, and the Telegraph is reporting that Caroline will be appointed Ambassador to England if Obama takes the White House, where she’d live at Winfield House (below), which was fabulously redecorated in the late ‘60s by gay icon Billy Haines — for Walter Annenberg, the TV Guide founder who was named Ambassador by Nixon. (Annenberg later sold TV Guide and other assets to Rupert Murdoch for $3 billion.)

William Haines was the first openly gay movie star, who when threatened by Louis B. Mayer to get married or else, quit movies and started a decorating business, where he invented the Hollywood Regency style — forever changing interior decoration. His relationship with Jimmy Shields lasted nearly 50 years, and he was a close friend of Nancy Reagan.