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'[George] would go home to put our kids to bed and come back to bring me dinner.

Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of JFK, has died from blood cancer at the age of 35, just six weeks after she revealed her diagnosis

 Jackie Kennedy, then 63, with Tatiana, then one, on a 1992 outing in Central Park 

Jackie, then 63, with Tatiana and her sister Rose in Central Park, New York, 1992

Tatiana is survived by her husband, physician George Moran, and their two children, Edwin, three, and Josephine, one.

It is the latest tragedy to befall Caroline, who lost her father to an assassin's bullet when she was five years old, her only sibling, JFK Jr, in a plane crash years later, and her mother to lymphoma in 1994, when the iconic former first lady was just 64. We’ll ask you to confirm this for your first post to Facebook.


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I didn't feel sick. She will always be in our hearts," read a message from her family on the institution's Instagram account, alongside an image of Schlossberg. 

Schlossberg, 35, wrote in an essay published by The New Yorker last month that she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in May 2024, shortly after the birth of her second child.

She wrote that she struggled with the impact of her diagnosis on her family. 

"For my whole life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student and a good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry.

She was the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, whose parents were John F Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy, and designer Edwin Schlossberg.

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Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of JFK, has died from blood cancer at the age of 35, just six weeks after she revealed her diagnosis. I was gone for almost half of her first year of life.

'[My family has] held my hand unflinchingly while I have suffered, trying not to show their pain and sadness in order to protect me from it.

Another tragedy struck the family when her younger brother, John F. Kennedy Jr., died in a small plane crash in 1999.

Tatiana Schlossberg published the essay announcing her diagnosis 62 years to the day after President Kennedy's assassination. They had two children, a son born in 2022 and a daughter born in May 2024. 

She had a career as an environmental journalist and author.

I wasn't sick. The pair met as undergraduates at Yale University, The New York Times reported, and wed in a ceremony at her family's home on Martha's Vineyard. But since I don't know what death is like and there's no one to tell me what comes after it, I'll keep pretending. "So many of them are from my childhood that I feel as if I'm watching myself and my kids grow up at the same time.

I was actually one of the healthiest people I knew,' she wrote. The judging panel said its readers "will find solace, humor and a route to feeling empowered with possibilities for positive change."

Schlossberg said she had another project in mind before cancer derailed her plans.

"My plan, had I not gotten sick, was to write a book about the oceans — their destruction, but also the possibilities they offer," she wrote in her essay.

"During treatment, I learned that one of my chemotherapy drugs, cytarabine, owes its existence to an ocean animal: a sponge that lives in the Caribbean Sea, Tectitethya crypta. I don't know who, really, she thinks I am, and whether she will feel or remember, when I am gone, that I am her mother."

She ended her essay talking about trying to "live and be with" her children.

"But being in the present is harder than it sounds, so I let the memories come and go," she wrote.

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Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, has died shortly after announcing she had a terminal cancer diagnosis, the JFK Library Foundation said Tuesday. 

"Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning.