Eisenhower or Pan Am airlines from enlisting Lindbergh as an overseas representative in the s. During the last two decades of his life, he spent months at a time away from his wife and five surviving children in their Connecticut home on overseas trips. During one of those trips, the year-old Lindberg met Brigitte Hesshaimer, a year-old Munich hatmaker, and started a secret love affair that would produce three children. For a decade and a half, until his death in , Lindberg made a circuit in southern Germany a few times each year, visiting his three paramours and seven children.
The kids were told he was a famous American writer on a secret mission and that their interactions with him should be kept quiet.
They remember trips to the countryside with him and the American-style pancakes he would make them. Lindbergh may have benefited from his fame and good looks — and the means to travel overseas frequently — but psychologists claim that leading a double life is not as uncommon as you might think.
Many of us lead very different private and public lives, even if just in the form of fantasy or daydreams. And, according to the General Social Survey, 20 percent of men and 13 percent of women have had sex with someone other than their spouse while married.
On the bright side, a double life can provide an opportunity to be a better person. Mrs Tripp, 71, says her mother had a hunch about her father's secret life, although she died shortly before her suspicion could be confirmed. Mrs Tripp lost her two-year-old son to meningitis in but she says her mother's encouraging words helped her pull through.
Shortly after her son's death Mrs Tripp, remarried documentary film maker Nathaniel Tripp on the same day she signed her divorce papers.
The mother-of-four is pictured here with her second husband and five-year-old son Benjamin, who is playing with a Lego airplane set on the bedroom floor at their home. Now a mother-of-four and a grandmother-of-five, she has a close friendship with some of her half-brothers and sisters and has learned to live with some of the difficulties that come with being a Lindbergh. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh died in Berg, who spent hours with her and had access to her letters and diaries, is convinced she never knew of the affairs. Meanwhile, Lindbergh's German children were doing a little detective work on their own, to find out who the man they knew as "Careu Kent" really was, the man who signed the only love letters between himself and his three European lovers to be found, as simply "C.
They remember the trips to the nearby park in the blue Volkswagen Beetle, the talks about nature and the pancakes -- real American ones unavailable in Germany -- their father used to make for them. Visiting about four times a year for a few days, Dyrk Hesshaimer, 46, recalled that it was always very "intense," when Lindbergh came. Their mother told them he was a famous writer on a clandestine mission and that they should never talk about him to anyone.
He was listed as unknown on their birth certificates. But they had no idea he was such a famous person. The letters to his mother showed a caring side of the pilot, not often portrayed, Hesshaimer added. Dyrk Hesshaimer and his siblings read letters from over almost two decades, and the last was a goodbye, a promise of continued financial support and an admonition to continue the secrecy: "Keep the secret. The letters, found in garbage bags by Astrid Bouteuil confirmed what she already suspected after she discovered a magazine with an article and picture of her father inside.
As DNA tests confirmed, they had three children. The book treads new ground with claims that Lindbergh also romanced Brigitte's sister, Marietta, as well as a third woman, an acquaintance of the sisters named Valeska, who was also Lindbergh's German translator and private secretary. Written in co-operation with the now middle-aged children, the book says all three women knew about Lindbergh's romances with the other women but more or less tolerated it.
Valeska had a son and daughter with Lindbergh. Their names are not mentioned. Marietta and Valeska are still alive. The book, which includes excerpts from love letters from Lindbergh as well as dozens of pictures of him with Hesshaimer and their children, lists the years in which the seven children were born: , , , , , and It says Lindbergh "came and went as he pleased" during the last 17 years of his life, spending between three to five days with his Munich family about four to five times each year.
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