Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of former US President John F. Kennedy, has died aged 35.
Her family announced her death in a social media post shared 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. She stated in an essay that she had been given less than a year to live.
Schlossberg was the daughter of designer Edwin Schlossberg and diplomat Caroline Kennedy, and is survived by her husband George Moran and their two children, three-year-old Edwin and one-year-old Josephine.
In an article published last month in The New Yorker titled, A Battle With My Blood, Schlossberg revealed she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia in May 2024, after giving birth to her second child. My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn't remember me, she wrote.
Schlossberg described the treatments she received, including chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, but shared that doctors did not give her a good prognosis. She expressed concern for her family's pain, having a lineage marked by tragedy, including the assassination of her grandfather and the death of her uncle, John F. Kennedy Jr., in a plane crash.
Her younger brother, Jack Schlossberg, is running for Congress in New York. 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, she said.
Tributes poured in from relatives, including Maria Shriver, who described Schlossberg as someone who loved her life and fought like a warrior. Shriver emphasized the impact Schlossberg made as a journalist committed to educating others about climate issues.
Before her widely-read essay about her diagnosis, Schlossberg forged a successful career as a climate journalist, authoring a book titled Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have and contributing to major publications, including The New York Times.
I think climate change is the biggest story in the world, Schlossberg stated in a 2019 interview. It's about science and nature, but it's also about politics and health and business. If I could help communicate about it, that might inspire other people to get involved and work on the issue.\
