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Apr 5, 2024 · Kathleen Kennedy and her brother Joseph Kennedy arriving for her wedding to William Cavendish, Marquis of Hartington, at Chelsea Register office, London 6th May 1944. (Photo by J. Wilds/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Billy and Kick soon fell in love.
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 ...
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 ...
Seven minutes later, in the bare, plain registry room, livened only by carnations on the table, Kathleen became the Marchioness of Hartington. A man named Stream performed the ceremony.
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.
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.
Died: 13 May 1948, Cévennes, France. She was called Kick by family and friends. 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.
