From what I’ve read about Mother Rose, she had some deviant behaviors of her own. It is written that she went to a next door neighbor’s swimming pool in Palm Beach (when she had a pool at her own residence) to swim naked. Seems rather voyeuristic. Just proves the old adage that money doesn’t buy class.
“Seems rather voyeuristic”
exhibitionism unless it was the neighbors who were swimming naked.
I believe Mother Rose was as vile as Papa Kennedy which is why they would normally have gotten along. Rosemary, on the other hand, was a different type of Kennedy. She saw what was accepted as ‘normal’ in the family and did it, not knowing any different. As a young beautiful woman in body, she would have enjoyed sex and as a child wasn’t able to be taught it was not socially acceptable to be so open about it. Sigh. I think she would have been the best perhaps, out of the family. Mother Rose may have sensed that and it is what caused the outrage and pain when Papa Kennedy had the medical process performed on Rosemary. Rose Kennedy may have been vile in almost all aspects except in her love of Rosemary Kennedy. As a human Rosemary was not perfect; as a Kennedy, she really may have been the best in her inner core of human caring as many of ‘slow/innocents’ often are.