Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of the 35th US president, John F Kennedy, died on Tuesday after revealing in a November essay that she had been diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia. She was 35.
Her passing was announced by her family in a social media post from the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” the family wrote.
Schlossberg was a climate change and environmental journalist and the second child of JFK’s daughter, former US diplomat Caroline Kennedy, and the designer-artist Edwin Schlossberg.
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.
At the time, she also criticized her cousin Robert F Kennedy Jr,, the US health secretary, for being a vaccine skeptic and cutting funding for cancer research.