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20 de jul. de 2018 · In Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd: Eleanor's Rival, FDR's Other Love, Totten presents a carefully structured case for a deep and lasting but chaste love between Lucy and FDR, against the prevailing view that they were clandestine lovers.
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- Christine M Totten
I february 1920 blev Lucy Page Mercer den anden ægtefælle for Winthrop Rutherfurd, en prominent person fra New York med et hestestutteri i Aiken County, South Carolina. Han havde tidligere været hemmeligt forlovet med Consuelo Vanderbilt, hvis mor tvang hende til at hæve deres forlovelse, så hun kunne gifte sig med en engelsk hertug.
A portrait of Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd. Franklin found out about her marriage to Winston Rutherfurd from social acquaintances. Until recently, most people assumed that Franklin kept his promise to stay away from Lucy until 1941. But it seems that Franklin and Lucy were incapable of staying away from each other.
After the deaths of Winthrop in 1944, and his second wife Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd in 1948, the remaining estate was sold in 1950 to The Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Charity who maintained the property until 2005.
After Alice's death from appendicitis, Rutherfurd married his second wife Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd. Construction began in 1902 and included a mansion, gardens, boathouse, swimming beach, hydroelectric powerhouse, 9-hole golf course, and kennels.
Lucy Page Mercer Rutherfurd was born April 26, 1891, in Washington, DC to a prominent Maryland Catholic family. She was educated in private schools, but because her family had very little money she had to go to work. In 1914, she became social secretary to Eleanor Roosevelt.
Lucy married Winthrop Chanler Rutherfurd in 1920 and had one daughter with him; their marriage lasted until his death in 1944. She became a companion for FDR after the death of her husband, and was with him in Warm Springs when he collapsed and died in 1945, although she left before Eleanor arrived and heard the news of FDR's death on her car radio.
