Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of former US President John F Kennedy, has died at the age of 35. Her family shared the news through a post released by the John F Kennedy Library Foundation. Tatiana Schlossberg was the daughter of designer Edwin Schlossberg and diplomat Caroline Kennedy.
“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning,” the family wrote. “She will always be in our hearts.” The note was signed by George, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory.
Tatiana Schlossberg dies at 35
In November last year, Schlossberg revealed that she had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. In a personal essay, she said doctors had told her she might have less than a year to live. She recalled feeling shocked because she had been healthy and active. Just a day earlier, she had swum a mile while nine months pregnant. “I wasn’t sick. I didn’t feel sick,” she wrote in an essay published in The New Yorker in November 2025.
Titled “A Battle With My Blood,” the piece described how she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia in May 2024, shortly after she gave 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 wrote about undergoing intense treatment, including chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant. Despite these efforts, doctors did not give her a hopeful outlook. In her essay, Schlossberg described how her parents and siblings stayed close through months of hospital stays and treatment. “My family has held my hand unflinchingly while I have suffered,” she wrote. She said they tried to hide their own pain to protect her, even though she felt it every day.
Carrying the weight of family loss
Schlossberg was already aware of the long history of tragedy in her family. Her mother, Caroline Kennedy, was just days away from turning six when her father, President John F Kennedy, was assassinated in 1963. Years later, Caroline also lost her only living sibling, John F Kennedy Jr., in a plane crash. Schlossberg wrote about how painful it was to feel that her illness had added yet another loss.
“For my whole life, I have tried to be good,” she wrote, saying she had always tried to protect her mother from pain. “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.”