They have managed to Markle the Kennedys…this has been on the NY Post site for two days now:
Caroline Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kerry Kennedy have traded on their famous names rather than living up to the promises put forth by their legendary fathers, experts say.
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“Shame on you,” said one observer on Kerry Kennedy’s Instagram page this week. “Linking these people to your father’s wonderful achievements and this award … You have belittled this award for … others who deserved it.”
Another critic wrote:
“You’ve turned the award and the organization into a farce and laughing stock awarding Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Your father will be turning in his grave with this misuse of his name.”
Kennedy family biographer Laurence Leamer agrees and told The Post that the children of Robert Kennedy and his brother, former president John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963, have a hard time living up to their father’s legacies.
“It’s a curse to be an inheritor, whether you are the Kennedys or Joe Smith,” said Leamer, author of “The Kennedy Women: Saga of An American Family” and “The Kennedy Men: 1901-1963,” among other books. “As an inheritor, the blood thins out.”
During his tenure as Attorney General in his brother’s administration, Robert F. Kennedy
ran a successful campaign against organized crime and worked to champion civil rights and end segregation. He was a close advisor to the president and a key strategist during the Cuban Missile Crisis which nearly brought the world to the brink of nuclear war in Oct. 1962.
In the case of Kerry, a lawyer and the seventh child of Robert and Ethel Kennedy, “she wants to be a big player and assume publicity” by handing out an award to Harry and Meghan, Leamer said. “But she never gets it right.”
President of the foundation named for her father since 2011, Kerry is the only Kennedy family member to take a salary from the group, according to federal tax filings. Her uncle Ted Kennedy, who died in 2009, was a longtime member of the charity, and her mother, now 94 years old, continues to occupy a volunteer position on the board. Kerry’s compensation jumped from just over $250,000 in 2011 to more than $540,000 in 2019, the last year for which public IRS filings are available for the group. Much of that increase was due to bonuses she received from the board. In 2018, she received a $225,000 bonus which increased her take-home pay to $555,388, according to public filings. The following year, 2019, her compensation was $500,468, which included a bonus of $150,000, records show.
“RFKHR staff positions, inclusive of our President, are salaried and Board and Leadership Council positions are unpaid volunteer roles,” said a spokesperson for RFKHR in an email Wednesday. The group did not address The Post’s question about the criticism it has received over the decision to grant an award to Markle and Prince Harry. In addition to the Sussexes, RFKHR is also presenting Ripple of Hope awards to Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky, among others.”