The 'curse' of the Kennedys: Tatiana Schlossberg, Jfk's granddaughter died aged 35

Tatiana Schlossberg, journalist and niece of former US President John F. Kennedy, died at the age of 35.

The family was informed on social media by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.

Schlossberg, who had worked mainly on environmental issues and climate change, had made public in November, in an essay in the New Yorker, her diagnosis of a rare form of acute myeloid leukaemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow.

In the text, in addition to reflecting on the disease, mortality and his family history, he had also harshly criticised his cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the current Secretary of Health, calling him 'an embarrassment' for his positions against state-funded medical research and vaccines.