{"id":336535,"date":"2026-03-13T03:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/336535\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T03:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:39:08","slug":"love-story-where-did-john-f-kennedy-jr-and-carolyn-bessette-honeymoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/336535\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Love Story\u2019: Where Did John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Honeymoon?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: This article contains details from episode seven of FX\u2019s Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette.<\/a><\/p>\n

After John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette\u2019s ultra-private wedding<\/a> on Georgia\u2019s remote Cumberland Island<\/a> in September 1996, they set off on their two-week honeymoon. The destination? Istanbul, Turkey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to C. David Heymann\u2019s biography American Legacy: The Story of John and Caroline Kennedy, the couple\u2019s honeymoon spot was actually recommended by John\u2019s mother, Jackie Kennedy. John had visited Istanbul with his mother and her second husband, Aristotle Onassis, and in 1985, Mrs. Kennedy had gone to Turkey and reportedly \u201ctold John that if he ever married, it was an ideal place to honeymoon.\u201d Years later, after her death in 1994, John took his mother\u2019s advice.<\/p>\n

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Istanbul\u2019s Blue Mosque.<\/p>\n

Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n

Traveling under the aliases \u201cMr. and Mrs. Hyannis,\u201d the newlyweds touched down in Turkey and checked into a $4,500-per-night penthouse suite at the Ciragan Palace Hotel<\/a>, a luxury five-star hotel in a restored Ottoman palace on the Bosphorus. Christiane Amanpour, a close friend of Kennedy Jr.\u2019s, had recommended the hotel to the couple, reportedly calling it \u201cone of the most luxurious in the world, even by Kennedy standards,\u201d according to Heymann\u2019s book. Today, the hotel is run by the Kempinski luxury hotel group (and just as opulent as ever).<\/p>\n

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Inside the Ciragan Palace.<\/p>\n

Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Note: This article contains details from episode seven of FX\u2019s Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[161513,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-336535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-american-story","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}