The personal diary of a famous Sheppey export is due to be auctioned in Boston.

Maud Shaw, from Minster-on-Sea, served as the official White House nanny during John F Kennedy's presidency.

Her diary details the development of the president's children, Caroline and John Junior, as infants and toddlers between 1957 and 1962.

More than 22 handwritten pages, the journal covers teething, first steps, illnesses, and a detailed record of what they were eating.

Before heading to The White House, Mrs Shaw had worked as a nanny around the world, in countries including Iran, Egypt, and England.

She was hired in 1957 to care for the newborn Caroline, while JFK was still a senator.

She worked for the family for more than seven years and became very close to the children.

This is shown through letters and postcards included in the sale of the diary, dated from after the assassination of the president.

In 1967, Caroline wrote to her former nanny at her Admirals Walk home, saying: "I miss you. We are in Mexico now. It is beautiful!"

In another letter from January 1966, eight-year-old Caroline writes: "Thank you very much for the pink thing (I don't know what to call it) and the picture frame.

"I have it here with me in Switzerland."

Mrs Shaw was so loved by the family that she was given her own private quarters at The White House, and became the parental figure when JFK and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy were away on business.

She was the person who informed five-year-old Caroline that her father had been killed, and detailed this and other memories of her time with the family in her 1966 book White House Nannie: My Years with Caroline and John Kennedy Jr.

The diary will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction, which will also be selling another historic piece from the Kennedy administration, JFK's victory map, used during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The map shows intelligence supplied by spy planes which confirmed an increasing Soviet presence close to the American coast.

The auction series, Fine Autographs and Artefacts, will conclude next Wednesday.