Caroline Kennedy

While working at the Film and Television Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Caroline Kennedy met exhibit designer Edwin Schlossberg whom she married in 1986. The couple has three children, Rose Kennedy Schlossberg (b.1988), Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg (b.1990), and John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg (b.1993).

She is the owner of her mother's 375 acre estate known as Red Gate Farm in Aquinnah on Martha's Vineyard.

Caroline Bouvier Kennedy was born on 27 November 1957, in New York City, USA. She is the eldest daughter of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. She had a younger brother John Jr., and a baby brother, Patrick who died in infancy.

The initial years of her life were spent in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. When she was only three years old, her father became the 35th President of the United States and the family moved into the White House.

At the White House, she attended kindergarten classes arranged by her mother, rode around her pony called Macaroni, and received numerous gifts from international dignitaries.

Shortly before her sixth birthday, her father was assassinated. Two weeks later, the family left the White House and went back to Georgetown. Eventually, they moved to a penthouse apartment in Manhattan.

Following the loss of her father, her uncle Robert F. Kennedy became a father figure in her life. When Robert was assassinated as well, her mother Jacqueline Kennedy tried to protect her children by marrying a Greek shipping tycoon, Aristotle Onassis, and moving out of the country.

At around this time Caroline Kennedy began her career as an attorney, writer, and editor. Along with her family members, she created the ‘Profile in Courage Award’ in 1989 that honours courageous public officials.

She co-authored a book with Ellen Alderman called ‘In Our Defence: The Bill of Rights in Action’ (1991) about constitutional issues and also published some best-selling volumes of prose and poems, such as ‘The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.’

From 2002 to 2004, she worked as director of the Office of Strategic Partnerships for the New York City Department of Education. Against a salary of $1, she helped raise funds of $65 million for the city’s public schools. She is currently Honorary Director of the Fund and was earlier on the board of trustees of Concord Academy.

She is the president of the Kennedy Library Foundation and an adviser to the Harvard Institute of Politics. She is also a member of the New York and Washington D.C. bar associations.

Caroline Kennedy is a member of the boards of directors of the Commission on Presidential Debates and the NAACP Legal Defence and Educational Fund.

Caroline Kennedy and Ellen Alderman have co-authored two books together on civil rights: ‘In Our Defence: The Bill of Rights in Action’ (1991) and ‘The Right to Privacy’ (1995).

She has edited some best-selling volumes like ‘The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ (2001) and ‘A Patriot's Handbook’ (2003), and also authored books of poems and prose.

As the first female U.S. ambassador to Japan, she worked with the Japanese government to return to Japan thousands of acres of land in north Okinawa that had been used by the U.S. as a military base since the end of World War II. She also promoted literacy, and women's and LGBT rights in Japan.