REVENGERE WAS VERYVE SWEET

WHAT better way to get revenge on a cheating husband than to sleep with his bodyguard? Th That was eleanor Roosevelt’s tact tactic after discovering, in 1918, tha that her husband Franklin d. Roosevelt had been having an affair with Lucy Mercer, her much m younger secretary, for more m than six years. From F then on, it was a marriage m in name only. In I 1928, when her husband stepped st up his political ambitions am as Governor of New York, Yo eleanor was assigned a bodyguard, bo earl Miller (left, with wit eleanor). She reputedly took revenge for her husband’s infidelity infid by becoming his lover. She wrote about the ‘divine warmth’ warm she felt in his arms. However, How Miller was to be replaced in the First Lady’s affections by a woman, woma Lorena Hickok, a journalist with w whom she fell madly in love. By the th time her husband had been sworn in as President in 1933, they were lovers. The depth of their romance roman was revealed in more than 3,000 l letters they exchanged, which surfaced surfac in the Nineties.