Tatiana Schlossberg on November 22, 2013. Credit line: Alastair Grant / AP / Profimedia
Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of former US President John F. Kennedy, has died at the age of 35. His family announced the death, according to the BBC.
“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will forever be in our hearts,” her family said in a social media post shared by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.
In November, Schlossberg, a climate journalist, announced that she had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. She stated in an essay that she was given less than a year to live.
Tatiana Schlossberg, 35, was the daughter of designer Edwin Schlossberg and diplomat Caroline Kennedy.
In an article published in The New Yorker titled “A Battle With My Blood,” Schlossberg revealed that she was diagnosed with acute leukemia in May 2024 after giving birth to her second child.
Schlossberg described the treatments she underwent, including chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, but testified that doctors did not give her a favorable prognosis.
She also wrote about the pain she feared her death would cause her family, who had endured multiple personal tragedies. Her grandfather, President Kennedy, was assassinated in 1963, and her uncle, John F. Kennedy Jr., died in 1999.
