For one brief, shining moment in December 1995, the two most famous people in the world at the time—Princess Diana and John F. Kennedy Jr.—met at New York City’s Carlyle Hotel. John had an ask to make of Diana—would she appear on the cover of his new magazine, George? She had appeared—infamously now—on BBC’s Panorama with Martin Bashir, so John thought maybe she’d be open to more media appearances; he wanted her to dress up as an American historical figure, according to his executive assistant RoseMarie Terenzio, who wrote the brand new book JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography with Liz McNeil, its release timed with the 25-year anniversary of John’s death in a 1999 plane crash alongside his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and his sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette.
