Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of former US President John F. Kennedy, has died at the age of 35.
Her family announced her death in a social media post published by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, writing: “Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts.”
In November, Schlossberg, a climate journalist, announced her diagnosis of an aggressive form of cancer. In the essay, she said she had less than a year to live.
Schlossberg was the daughter of designer Edwin Schlossberg and diplomat Caroline Kennedy.
In an article published last month in The New Yorker entitled “The Battle with My Blood,” Schlossberg said she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in May 2024, after the birth of her second child.
“My first thought was that my children, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, would not remember me,” she wrote.
Schlossberg described the treatment she received, including chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, but said doctors did not give her a good prognosis.
She also wrote about the pain she feared her passing would cause her family, who had suffered many personal tragedies. Her grandfather, President Kennedy, was assassinated in 1963, and her uncle, John Kennedy Jr., died in 1999.
“All my life I have tried to be good, to be a good student, a good sister and a good daughter, to protect my mother and never upset her or make her angry,” Schlossberg wrote.
“Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to the life of our family, and there is nothing I can do to stop it.”
