According
to America’s
Reluctant
Prince,
Carolyn’s
mother,
Ann
Freeman,
had
openly
questioned
during
her
wedding
toast
whether
John
was
the
right
man
for
her
daughter.
Anthony,
however, tempered
the
awkwardness
with
his
best
man
speech. “We
all
know
why
John
would
marry
Carolyn,”
he
said. “She
is
smart,
beautiful
and
charming…What
does
she
see
in
John?
A
person
who
over
the
years
has
taken
pleasure
in
teasing
me,
playing
nasty
tricks
and,
in
general,
torturing
me.
Well,
some
of
the
things
that
I
guess
might
have
attracted
Carolyn
to
John
are
his
caring,
his
charm,
and
his
very
big
heart
of
gold.”
Carolyn
had
also
become
increasingly
involved
with George,
much
to
the
consternation
of
John’s
partner,
Michael
Berman,
who
ended
up
selling
his
half
of
the
magazine in
1997.
Incidentally,
Carolyn
missed
having
her
own
career,
but
she
wasn’t
sure
what
she
wanted
to
do—or
could
do,
thanks
to
her
outsized
celebrity—next.
Then,
in
1998,
John,
an
adventurous
outdoorsman
who
was
always
trying
to
go
faster
or
higher
or
to
somewhere
more
remote,
took
up
flying—something
his
mother,
when
she
was
alive,
had
pleaded
with
him not
to do.
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