Skull and Bones is thicker than a marriage license.
Man is it ever - “Connubial Bliss” if ever I saw it!
Kerry was tapped for Skull and Bones in 1966, two years before Bush (1968), whose father (1948) and grandfather Prescott (1917) were also Bonesmen. Kerry’s brother-in-law from his first marriage, David Thorne (1966), was in Kerry's tap class. Kerry went to Pamplona in Spain to run with the bulls with classmate David Thorne. Kerry was probably chosen because of his reputation as a strong debater. His fellows included one of his closest friends, William Pershing, who was killed in Vietnam, and David Thorne, the brother of his first wife. Frederick Smith, a founder of the Federal Express delivery service, was also in Kerry's year.
And just by coincidence I'm sure, the late husband of Kerry’s current wife, Mama T - John Heintz II (1931) was a Bonesman.
This little bit of info on Kerry's former wife comes from Family Tree of Thomas Jefferson and Other Famous Americans
Author of "You Are Not Alone : Words of Experience & Hope for the Journey Through Depresion" by Julia Thorne http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060969776/slavesofthomasje
"By all accounts a lovely woman who is now happily remarried in Montana", Salon Magazine.
"At Yale, Kerry also made a special friendship with David Thorne, whose sister Julia he courted. (One published estimate of Thorne family wealth: $300 million.) They wed in 1970. She was descended from George Washington痴 Attorney General William Bradford (who ended the Whiskey Rebellion). Her great-uncle was Henry Stimson, the Secretary of State under President Herbert Hoover and Secretary of War under Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman. (Stimson by some accounts made the decision to target Nagasaki, the most Christian city in Japan, for nuclear annihilation.) " David Brinkley