Former mistress of Kennedy says it all

Mimi Alford, a mistress of former US President John F Kennedy, has exposed through her book new details of the relationship she shared with Kennedy.

Titled 'Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F Kennedy and its Aftermath', the book, described as "deeply personal and touching", is a memoir of her 18 month relationship with the late President.

The relationship started when she was an intern at the White House barely at the age of 19 but interestingly, the book surfaced after 40-years of silence and retrospect.

Alford, then Mimi Beardsley, has also claimed in the book that she lost her virginity to Kennedy, revealing intricate details of her first sexual encounter with him when she had been invited to swim at the White House pool.

Reports by BBC suggest that the previewed parts of the book contain graphic details of the president´s milieu, including tales of drug use. Apart from this, it also includes president's thoughts on the Cuban missile crisis and the death of his baby son Patrick during which she stood by her as a loyal mistress - consoling and supporting.

An excerpt published in the New York Post featured quoted her as saying in the book, 'I noticed he was moving closer and closer. I could feel his breath on my neck. He put his hand on my shoulder.'

'The next thing she knew, he was standing above her, looking directly into her eyes and guiding her to the edge of the bed.'

Another excerpt read, 'There was a stack of condolence letters on the floor next to his chair, and he picked each one up and read it aloud to me... Occasionally, tears rolling down his cheeks, he would write something on one of the letters, probably notes for a reply.'

Alford is now a 69-year-old grandmother and retired New York City church administrator.

According to Random House, her publisher, her decision to come up with a book came after her affair was pointed out in a Kennedy biography in 2003.