Apparently they still travel with a crazy amount of security! I read something about it a few years back. It was like they were the Beatles in 1964 or something.

The spa was at a high end hotel and the couple had tickets to a sox/Yankees game later that day. I remember leaving after my shift and seeing some of the worst gridlock I’d ever experienced at Boylston and Tremont and it was all caused by their security detail shutting down half of downtown. They wreaked havoc on all of Boston that weekend I’ll never forget it.

I met Joe Kennedy III and his twin Matt back in 2007 when I was interning at a political consulting firm. They were both late 20s at the time and were perfectly pleasant but had a rehearsed poise to them that seemed a bit unnatural.

Ted Kennedy’s first wife Joan was a regular at the spa I worked at during college the year after I met the Kennedy twins. To be delicate, I’ll say she had monthly skin treatments and let’s just say I saw a very stripped down version of her - no makeup and a latex glove filled with ice held up to her face to quell any post treatment swelling. She was always very sweet. One time she was onsite when we had a celebrity power couple in the house who required a police escort and motorcade upon arrival and were a general nuisance to all of the staff. Joan saw the madness when checking out after her appt and just giggled to me and the other receptionists and said under her breath “that movie Wall Street came out 20 years ago, I think the need for that level of security today is a touch over the top.” I guess Joan never saw Traffic, but I appreciated that she found the whole spectacle as ridiculous as we did.