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American socialite and sister of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Name variations: Kick; Marchioness of Hartington. Born Kathleen Agnes Kennedy in 1920; died in a plane crash in Belgium on May 13, 1948; daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy (1888–1969, a financier, diplomat, and head of several government commissions) and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy ...
Kathleen Agnes Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington ( née Kennedy; February 20, 1920 – May 13, 1948), also known as " Kick " Kennedy, was an American socialite. She was the second daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald, a sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, and the wife of ...
Kick’s zeal for politics was undeterred by mudslinging from an increasingly anti-aristocracy public and Billy’s landslide defeat. She loved the family’s nightly strategy sessions and canvassing under a false name. Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy and William “Billy” Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, April 1944.
On May 6, 1944, Kathleen Kennedy married William “Billy” Cavendish, the Marquess of Hartington, whom she had met during her first trip to England in 1938. Billy, Lord Hartington, a member of the British army, was called up on June 13, four weeks after their wedding. He was killed in combat on September 10, 1944.
Lady Mary’s mother, the Marchioness of Salisbury, thought it wise to come, too. Reluctantly the Duke agreed that he was the one to speak to his headstrong son-&-heir, William John Robert...
One of John Fitzgerald Kennedy ’s Sisters; she was the Marchioness of Hartington by marriage. Of the nine children in her family she is seen as the only true rebel. She has been featured on the Smithsonian Channel’s Million Dollar American Princesses thanks to her marriage into British Nobility.
Apr 27, 2016 · April 27, 2016. Kathleen Kennedy (1920 - 1948), later Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, whilst working for the American Red Cross in London, 1943. ( Horace Abrahams/Keystone/Hulton Archive / Getty ) Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy met a tragic fate at age 28 when she was killed in a plane crash flying to Paris.
