FILE – Tatiana Schlossberg, daughter of Caroline Kennedy, ambassador of the United States to Australia, addresses the audience during the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award ceremony, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File) Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of the 35th U.S. president, John F. Kennedy, died on Tuesday after revealing in November she had been diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia. She was 35.
Her passing was announced in a social media post by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
In a New Yorker essay published in November, Schlossberg said she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia with a rare mutation, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow.
Tatiana Schlossberg is the daughter of Kennedy’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy, and Edwin Schlossberg.
After the birth of her second child, her doctor noticed her white blood cell count was high. It turned out to be acute myeloid leukaemia with a rare mutation, mostly seen in older people, she wrote about the diagnosis, which happened in May.
Schlossberg, an environmental journalist, wrote that she had undergone rounds of chemotherapy and two stem cell transplants, the first using cells from her sister and the next from an unrelated donor, and participated in clinical trials. During the latest trial, she wrote that her doctor told her “he could keep me alive for a year, maybe.”
