After a lifetime of cruel losses, Caroline Kennedy is facing another unthinkable tragedy: her daughter's death
Caroline Kennedy is facing yet another unthinkable tragedy: the death of her youngest daughter Tatiana Schlossberg.
In November, Tatiana, 35, went public with her terminal cancer diagnosis in a heartbreaking essay for The New Yorker.
"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 wrote.
Caroline Kennedy is facing another unthinkable tragedy: the death of her daughter Tatiana Schlossberg (left). FilmMagic
"Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family's life, and there's nothing I can do to stop it."
Tatiana's acute myeloid leukemia was discovered in 2024 after she had welcomed her second child, when her doctor noticed an imbalance in her white blood cell count.
She was eventually diagnosed with the cancer, which she describes as "a rare mutation called Inversion 3."
"I did not – could not – believe that they were talking about me. I had swum a mile in the pool the day before, nine months pregnant," she wrote.
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The journalist and mum of two has died aged 35, weeks after revealing her terminal cancer diagnosis. Getty Images for goop
"I didn't feel sick. I was actually one of the healthiest people I knew," she wrote in a moving essay. Getty
"I wasn't sick. I didn't feel sick. I was actually one of the healthiest people I knew."
Tatiana began aggressive treatment for the disease, including months of chemotherapy and a bone-marrow transplant, spending five weeks at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City before being transferred to Memorial Sloan Kettering for a bone-marrow transplant.
She joined a clinical trial of CAR-T-cell therapy but doctors said she would live for just a year.
The news of Tatiana's death was shared by the JFK Library Foundation, on behalf of Schlossberg's extended family, on December 30.
"Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts," the post, signed by "George, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory", read.
It's a cruel blow for Caroline, 67, who has endured more heartbreak than one can imagine in one lifetime.
Her father, US president John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1963 when she was just six, followed by the assassination of her uncle Robert F. Kennedy just five years later.
The former US ambassador to Australia has rarely spoken about the loss of her father.
Caroline's father, US president John F. Kennedy, was assassinated when she was just six. The Washington Post via Getty Im
However, in a 2017 video for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library marking the 100th anniversary of JFK's birth, she said, "I have thought about him and missed him every day of my life."
Caroline and her brother, John F Kennedy Jr., also lost their mother Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system, when she was just 64.
At a forum held at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in 2011 for the launch of the book Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy, Caroline spoke of her mother's choice to contribute to the publication.
She said it "wasn't easy, but she felt she was doing it for my father's sake, and for history's". Caroline wrote the introduction to the book.
Caroline and her brother John F Kennedy Jr. lost their mother Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in 1994, aged 64. Bettmann Archive
In 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr. tragically died aged just 38 after crashing the light plane he was piloting in to Martha's Vineyard in 1999.
His wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sister Lauren Bessette were with him.
Caroline oversaw her brother's burial at sea in a private ceremony on board US Navy destroyer, the USS Briscoe, eight kilometres off the coast of Massachusetts to avoid a media spectacle, as per his wishes.
She hasn't spoken publicly about her brother's death, and she is yet to directly comment on her daughter's death.
Caroline's brother and sister-in-law Carolyn Bessette Kennedy were tragically killed in a plane crash in 1999. Lawrence Schwartzwald
JFK Jr, pictured with Carolyn, was just 38 when he died. Getty
Caroline and her husband Edwin Schlossberg married in 1986 and welcomed three children: Rose, 37, Tatiana and Jack, 32.
Tatiana worked for most of her life as an environmental journalist in New York.
Caroline recently spoke to CNN about her children, saying: "They, I think, are the best people to take his [JFK's] message forward into the 21st century."
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Caroline pictured with daughter Tatiana and son Jack, with Prince William. WireImage
Caroline has spoken glowingly of her three children and their many achievements. MediaNews Group via Getty Images
Her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr is currently serving as US Health and Human Service's Chief for the US President Donald Trump's Republican administration, having turned his back on his family's long history of Democratic politics.
Caroline served as US Ambassador for Australia from 2022 until 2024.
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