The Kennedy clan: what the younger generation of the famous dynasty looks like. American Beauty: Why We Love Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy Life in the White House
And Jacqueline Bouvier on 11/27/1957. She spent the first few years of her life in the Georgetown area of Washington, where her family lived. In January 1961, her father becomes president of America, and the family moves to the White House. During the presidency of John F. Kennedy, the media first gained access to the private life of the first person of the state.
Life in the White House
The Kennedy family was under close scrutiny of the press - many photographs of the president's family appeared in newspapers and magazines. Photos of Kennedy's only daughter, Caroline, became available to the public.
A photo where she plays with her brother John, rides a pony around the White House and vacations with her parents in Massachusetts. The Americans dubbed Caroline the "Princess of Camelot". In November 1963, a few days before Caroline's sixth birthday, her father was killed in Dallas at the age of 46.
After the tragedy
After this tragedy, their family settled in Manhattan, where they lived until 1968. In the same year, Kennedy's mother Carolyn - Jacqueline - marries Aristotle Onassis. A new life began for her children. On weekends they flew to Puerto Rico and then returned to school in New York. Easter holidays were spent in the estate on the private island of Skorpios. Summer is at Grandma's in Newport. Onassis treated Jacqueline's children well, but there were always many photographs of their father in their room. The mother made sure that they remembered him.
When the children lived on Skorpios, she invited Pierre Salinger to talk about what their father was like and what he did during the presidency. Caroline and John, Salinger recalls, understood that the father was first and foremost a man, not a mythical creature. And he noted that their attitude towards their father as a historically important figure always had a healthy basis.
After the death of Onassis in 1975, the mother and children moved to New York. Caroline's younger brother, John, died in July 1999 in a crash on a plane he was flying. He was an experienced pilot, but the official version of his tragic death sounded like "pilot error in poor visibility."
Education and career
Kennedy Caroline received her primary education at Brearley School and Sacred Heart Catholic School for Girls. She continued her education in Massachusetts at Concord Academy, where she studied until 1975. Like all members of the Kennedy family, she entered the private Radcliffe College (part of Harvard), which she graduated in 1979. Then there was Columbia University, from where she graduated with a law degree in 1988.
Back at Harvard, Kennedy Caroline became interested in photography and worked as a photojournalist at the 76 Olympics in Innsbruck. She then worked as a photojournalist for the New York Daily News. Caroline has had a successful career as an editor and writer. She has been a constitutional author since the 1990s, publishing a series of best-selling collections of short stories and poetry.
Soon Kennedy Caroline realized that journalism was not her calling. In the early 1980s, she left photography behind and took up the practice of law and social work. Over the next twenty years, she published several journalistic works, worked as a prosecutor and was a member of the bar.
Family
In the early eighties, Caroline meets the talented designer Ed Schlossberg, who is 12 years older than her. Ed comes from a family of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. Caroline - witty and educated, besides the only daughter of Jacqueline Kennedy, was the pride of her mother, who wanted only the best for her.
At first, Jacqueline was against the relationship between Caroline and Ed. But the daughter insisted on her own, and in 1986 the young people got married. The marriage turned out to be happy. Three children were raised by mutual consent in the Catholic faith, which includes Caroline Kennedy.
Children - a son and two daughters - were brought up in a liberal atmosphere. Educated in prestigious educational institutions. The eldest daughter Rose, born in 1988, graduated from Harvard, like all Kennedys. He works as an operator and tries to lead a closed lifestyle. Photos of the girl accidentally became public on one of the social networks when she became involved in a scandal due to speeding.
Daughter Tatyana, born in 1990, like her mother, decided to try her hand at journalism after graduating from Yale University. Son John, born in 1993, is named after the legendary grandfather. He studied at Yale University, a specialist in history. He is a member of the Democratic Party, participates in projects to protect sexual and national minorities. All three are actively involved in charitable projects.
Public life
In 1989, the Kennedy family initiated the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, which is presented annually on the birthday of the 35th President of the United States.
The winners of the award are presented with a silver lamp, which symbolizes hope. It is made by the famous design and jewelry company Tiffany & Co. Caroline creates the Kennedy Library Foundation and the Harvard Institute of Politics (a memorial to her father John F. Kennedy). Caroline's father's biography has always been of interest, she actively takes part in films and programs dedicated to their family.
Political activity
Caroline Kennedy, writer and attorney, served from 2002 to 2004 with the New York City Department of Education. At this time, she writes several more books. In 2008, Caroline speaks in the presidential election in support of Barack Obama. Participates actively in the election race.
After Obama's victory, she claims a seat in the Senate. But Caroline was heavily criticized because she had never previously sought public office and had very powerful supporters. And in 2009, she withdraws her candidacy. Supports the Democratic Party, like the entire Kennedy family. In 2013, she was appointed US Ambassador Extraordinary to Japan.
Almost 20 years ago, the era of princesses ended - in 1997, Lady Di died in a tunnel in front of the Alma Bridge in Paris, and two years later, a Piper light aircraft crashed into the waters of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Massachusetts - the passengers were Carolyn Bessette, her sister Lauren, and pilot - journalist, lawyer and "son of all America" John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. They lived for a short time, but happily, and died on the same day. In fact, it must be admitted that the thin blonde Carolyn Bessette, who became the wife of the most beautiful prince of the New World in 1996, entered the history of fashion already as a queen. The queen of minimalism, who has always remained true to that elegant casualness that can only be innate.
We learned about her only after their wedding, carefully hidden from the press and the secular public, because she wanted so. Nevertheless, the photos were leaked, and the bride's outfit made a splash. Its minimalism and lack of jewelry were deafening even for the fashion crowd already accustomed to the new asceticism. In the end, even in those deliberately "poor" years, they got married in accordance with traditions - smartly. She, with her inherent nonconformism, chose a slip-cut dress-slip without a single detail and jewelry from a not-so-famous designer at that time - Narciso Rodriguez, whom she knew from her work at Calvin Klein.
It is clear that she could choose any star designer. But she was never interested in stardom, she trusted her own intuition. Is always. And when, having received a pedagogical education, she went to work as a salesman in a Boston Calvin Klein boutique, and when she put on a simple white shirt with a long black floor-length skirt for the evening, and when she impressed her colleagues with courage, using a leather jacket instead of a blouse. It is not surprising that attention was soon drawn to her, and a career at Calvin Klein developed easily and effectively. First, the charming blonde was thrown to work with the most stellar and capricious clients, and then, convinced of her talents, she was promoted to PR director. They say that she worked hard and well and was never afraid to say out loud what she thinks, just as she was not afraid to dress differently from everyone else.
Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy was not only a staunch minimalist, but in fact the first to legalize a fundamentally new fashion philosophy at the highest level. She easily wore simple T-shirts with Birkin bags, and silk slip dresses with high boots. She wore loose, deliberately cut jeans with elegant fitted jackets, and men's shirts with evening maxi skirts made of shiny satin. In flowered dresses, she looked like a grunge girl, not like an American housewife. A leopard coat was worn over a turtleneck and the same favorite Levi's 517 jeans without the slightest pretense of cat femininity.
Her long blond hair seemed to have never been styled, the maximum allowable effort - a simple bun for the evening, a low ponytail during the day or the famous plastic headband over a high forehead. Most of the photos capture a clean, makeup-free face and only in the evening bright flashes of red lipstick. A closer look at Carolyn Kennedy's wardrobe reveals some, most likely unintentional, resemblance to her famous mother-in-law's wardrobe. She also got married in a revolutionary simple white dress, by the way, also by a not-so-famous designer, she also loved black turtlenecks and black sheath dresses, flat shoes, and even a small leopard coat with a double-breasted clasp was like one for two, and on the fragile brunette Jackie, it looked as at ease as on the tall blonde Carolyn.
This season has every chance of becoming a nostalgic anthem to the style of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy. Slip dresses stripped of all possible details, deconstructivist jackets and coats in the spirit of Yamamoto, so beloved by her, unpretentious floral dresses, alien to sugary romanticism, and animal prints devoid of even a hint of aggression. Jeans of all possible types, including in combination with lace and chiffon dresses - everything is as it should be, in the spirit of those grunge 1990s. On the feet - flat sandals and slippers, well, or all the same favorite boots for all occasions. On the catwalks - very often the same make-up without makeup, it seems that the faces of the models were not touched by the hand of the make-up artist, the hair, too, seemed to be simply washed, dried and barely touched by a comb. Of course, you won’t surprise anyone with her trademark negligence for a long time. It has become the norm for every self-respecting fashionista. Well, Calvin Klein is again my favorite brand.
Carolyn reminded contemporaries that it was the bride who adorned the dress. Since then, we have not forgotten.
Contrast
The combination of pure white with jet black is considered not too bold by default. But Carolyn challenged even the foundations of black tie. Take an example from archival photos, be inspired by new shows.
Even the length does not prevent this black dress from remaining the standard of minimalism.
If there were a monarchy in the USA, then this clan could well claim the role of the ruling dynasty. However, Kennedy never needed the Crown, because their family already took root in almost all institutions of state power - from the US Embassy in Great Britain to the White House. Their famous history spans only 170 years and dates back to the day a migrant from Ireland named Patrick Kennedy set foot in Boston. His son will become a prominent businessman and one of the brightest faces of the Democratic Party, his grandson will serve as the US Ambassador to the UK, and his three great-grandchildren - John, Robert and Edward - will rise to the posts of President, Attorney General and Senator, respectively.
On the other hand, over the nearly 170 years of existence, the Kennedy clan has grown so much that, according to the Boston Globe newspaper, there was not a year in the United States between 1947 and 2010 when none of the dynasty did not hold any federal post. It was the Kennedys who made politics secular and glamorous (largely thanks to John and his wife Jacqueline), and it is they who are still trying to imitate ambitious young men and women who want to write their name in the political history of the States.
And who are the direct descendants of the president and his relatives imitating? As it turned out, the young Kennedys try their hand not only in politics, but also in cinema, journalism, art, and also in the social sphere. We show how the brightest representatives of the famous dynasty look today.
Rose Schlossberg, 31
Origin
It is hardly necessary to prove the relationship of this girl with the famous presidential couple, because the similarity between Rose and her legendary grandmother Jacqueline is obvious. The eldest child of Caroline and Edwin, Rose was named after her equally famous great-grandmother, who still bears the unofficial title of "matriarch of the Kennedy clan" even after her death. The girl does not try to overshadow the glory of her relatives, but she does not sit idle either: Rose periodically does charity work, sponsors politicians (for example, she transferred funds for the election campaign of Barack Obama in 2008), and also tries herself in acting. There are no feature films in Miss Schlossberg's piggy bank yet, but you can look at a copy of Jacqueline Onassis on YouTube - it was on this platform that Rose presented the comedy vlog series End Times Girls Club.
Tatyana Shlossberg, 29
Origin: daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, granddaughter of John and Jacqueline Kennedy
Probably, the girl got her name so pleasant for Russian hearing because of her father's family background - he was the son of Ukrainian migrants of Jewish origin. The girl did not go into politics, but she took up another typical Kennedy business - journalism. Educated at Yale and Oxford, she landed a job at the prestigious New York Times. Tatiana now works more as a freelance writer and regularly writes about environmental issues and climate change. And in 2017, another important event happened in her life: the girl married her classmate John Moran.
John "Jack" Schlossberg, 26
Origin: son of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, grandson of John and Jacqueline Kennedy
His mother is the only living child of the famous couple John and Jacqueline Kennedy. Moreover, in fact, after Uncle John died in a plane crash in 1999, the young man is considered the only descendant of the President of the United States (male). Such a well-known origin leaves its mark on the young man: in 2013, John graduated from Yale, and in the fall of 2017 he entered Harvard Law School. Mr. Schlossberg dreams of following in the footsteps of his famous grandfather and becoming involved in politics in the future. The first successes are already there: in 2016, John managed to work at the US State Department, and also actually be for some time an assistant to his mother Caroline, who from 2013 to 2017. was the American ambassador to Japan.
Patrick Schwarzenegger, 25
Origin: son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver (daughter of Eunice Kennedy and, respectively, niece of John F. Kennedy)
And do not be confused by his last name: yes, Patrick is the son of that very Arnold, the Terminator and the ex-governor of California. His mother Maria still works as a journalist and publicist, and, as they say, in the history of Arnold's governorship, her channels of influence were not without (after all, she is a representative of the Kennedy clan).
In any case, Patrick's parents have been divorced for a long time, and the young man himself is already building his own career with might and main - a model and an actor (although at the age of 15, not without the help of his mother and father, he organized the Project360 men's clothing company, which also pursues charitable purposes) . Patrick has already been the face of the Hudson Jeans brand, and also boasts a contract with L.A. models. The filmography of the young man includes about 10 works at all (Patrick has been removed from adolescence). This year, the young man from the Kennedy clan will also present the romantic drama Midnight Sun, in which he played the main role.
Katherine Schwarzenegger, 29
Origin
Christina Schwarzenegger, 27
Origin: daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver (daughter of Eunice Kennedy and, respectively, niece of John F. Kennedy)
The younger sister Katherine also decided to get an education in communications. Christina graduated from Georgetown University - the same university where her mother once studied. Periodically, the girl acts in films and TV shows, and in the spring, together with her mother, Christina produced the documentary film Take Your Pills, which tells about the negative consequences of taking psychostimulants. The work, by the way, was shown on Netflix.
Robert "Bobby" Kennedy III, 34
Origin: son of Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. and his first wife Emily Ruth Black, grandson of Robert Kennedy (brother of the US president)
His father, following his father, chose law as his life's work, but Robert Kennedy III decided to go the other way and made his career in the entertainment industry. So, in 2013, Bobby acted as a screenwriter and lead actor in the comedy America, and a year earlier he directed his own documentary film ELEW: Live from Infinity, dedicated to musician Eric Lewis. This year, Mr. Kennedy will present another work - this time about the journalist Hunter Stockton Thompson. Rumor has it that the young man plans to call his stepmother, actress Cheryl Hines, for one of the roles. By the way, Bobby became famous for bringing a CIA officer, albeit a former one, to the Kennedy clan. We are talking about his wife Amaryllis Fox, with whom the young man exchanged vows in early July 2018. And in February 2019, the couple became parents for the first time - they had a girl, who was named Bobby.
Kathleen Kennedy, 30
Origin: daughter of Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. and his first wife Emily Ruth Black, granddaughter of Robert Kennedy
Kathleen was named after her great-aunt, the sister of President Kennedy, who at one time was a famous society lady and philanthropist, and in addition also a British aristocrat (she became her thanks to her marriage to the 10th Duke of Devonshire). The outward resemblance between relatives is noticeable, but in all other respects, the younger Kathleen prefers to go her own way: write for glossy publications, and also try herself on the screen (the girl once received episodic roles in such series as News Service and Gossip Girl).
Conor Kennedy, 24
Origin: son of Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. and his second wife Mary Richardson, grandson of Robert Kennedy
Conor Kennedy tries his hand at protecting animal rights (for example, the young man collaborated with the Ocean Alliance organization involved in saving whales), but by the age of 23 he discovered another talent in himself - to get on the front pages of newspapers. First - as the next boyfriend of Taylor Swift. Then - as a participant in scandals. Connor was arrested twice: in 2013 in connection with a political rally near the White House (by the way, the young man was detained along with his father) and in 2017 for a banal fight in a bar.
Kyra Kennedy, 23
Origin: daughter of Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. and his second wife Mary Richardson, granddaughter of Robert Kennedy
Kaira is only 23, but she has already managed to earn remarkable fame for herself - albeit not all over the world, but in the USA for sure. The method is very predictable for millennials: social networks. Like Donald Trump's "forgotten" daughter Tiffany, Kyra loves to show off her wealth through Instagram and Snapchat, for which, by the way, she was once accused of cyberbullying. As they say, for the damaged reputation of the family, the girl's father strictly forbade her to use social networks.
Joe Kennedy III, 38
Origin: son of businessman and politician Joseph Patrick Kennedy, grandson of Robert Kennedy
But Bobby's nephew, Joe Kennedy III, decided to go the typical "family" way and became a politician. A graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School, Joe has worked both in the Peace Corps and as a public prosecutor. However, Congress attracted him much more: in 2012, he ran for a seat in the House of Representatives, where he was successfully elected. He sits there to this day, not forgetting to periodically criticize the current US President Donald Trump for ignoring liberal values.
Mikaela Cuomo, 21
Origin: daughter of Kerry Kennedy and Andrew Cuomo, granddaughter of Robert Kennedy
Her mother is an activist and writer, and the daughter of the 64th US Attorney General, Robert Kennedy. Father is a famous politician, the 56th Governor of New York. Mikaela herself, at her age, is just starting her life path: she studies at Brown University, and also periodically participates in political actions. So, in 2015, the girl launched a small campaign against sexual crimes. Michaela sold activist T-shirts and donated all the proceeds to the Human Rights Center named after her famous grandfather.
It is generally accepted that American society, as a democratic society from time immemorial, is generally alien to all these feudal medieval remnants, which are largely preserved in Europe. In particular, when it comes to such a concept as a “traditional family” or “clan”, Scottish and Irish traditions come to mind first, at best glorified in crime novels and movies, the mafia families of Italian emigrants. However, in the United States, there are still families that are of particular importance for the history of this country, almost like monarchical dynasties. And the most famous of these clans, of course, is the Kennedy family, the head of which at the moment can be considered Caroline Kennedy, daughter of United States President John F. Kennedy.
The Kennedy family can generally be considered the embodiment of the American dream. Natives of Ireland, by the beginning of the last century, they managed to achieve material well-being and gradually gained weight in social and political life. True 
The first founder of that famous clan, which has gained worldwide fame, is the grandfather of the heroine of our story, Joseph Patrick Kennedy. He was a versatile man: he made an excellent political career, having “rise” to the post of adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt, and at the same time made a huge fortune thanks to the illegal trade in alcohol during the famous “dry law” of the 30s. In addition, he created a very strong family by marrying Rosa Fitzgerald, a representative of the Boston beau monde - this couple had 9 children, the most famous of which, of course, were John F. Kennedy and his younger brother Robert, the US Senator and Attorney General.
Caroline Kennedy was born on November 27, 1957 in New York, in the family of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier, who by that time had been married for 4 years. Caroline was not the first-born of the Kennedy couple - a year earlier, Jacqueline had already given birth to a girl who was named Arabella, but she died in infancy. It should be noted that of the four children of John F. Kennedy, only two survived, Caroline and her brother John, who was born in 1960. During the presidency of John F. Kennedy, from 1961 to 1963, Caroline and John Jr. were under the scrutiny of the press and the public as the first family of the country. The special attitude not only to the president, but also to his family, which is now very characteristic of the United States, began precisely with the Kennedy family. This is due both to the charismatic personality of the president himself, and to the fact that for the first time the media got access to the family life of the first person of the state. In addition, the fact that the children of John F. Kennedy at that time were very young played a role, which further strengthened the sympathy of the majority of the population for their leader.
After the infamous shootings in Dallas in late 1963, Caroline Kennedy and her family moved to Manhattan, where she lived until 1968. Naturally, Caroline received her primary education in the most elite schools in New York, and then in Massachusetts, and after graduation, in the long tradition of the Kennedy family, she entered Harvard. Since 1968, when her mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier, married the famous Greek billionaire Aristotle Onassis, Caroline began to travel more, but her life was mainly connected with the largest US city, New York.
Until some time, Caroline Kennedy had absolutely nothing to do with politics, which is even strange for a representative of the family, so 
active in the political arena. After graduating from Harvard, Caroline worked as a professional photographer for some time, worked as a photojournalist at the 1976 Olympic Games in Innsbruck, then worked as a photojournalist for the New York Daily News. However, in the early 1980s, genes affected - Caroline left photography and began to take her first steps in the public arena. Over the next 20 years, she occupied a rather significant niche in the life of New York: she published several journalistic works, practiced law (for which she graduated from Columbia University in 1988), worked as a prosecutor, and founded several charitable foundations. In 2008, Caroline actively participated in the election campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. After Obama's victory, Caroline made an attempt to start her own career in big politics. She asked the Governor of New York State to recommend her candidacy for the Senate seat vacated after Hillary Clinton left for Secretary of State. However, the first pancake came out, as usual, lumpy - after several political interviews with Caroline, recognized by all experts as unsuccessful, rumors spread that the governor of New York would give the Senate seat to another person. In this situation, Caroline chose to withdraw her candidacy on her own.
Caroline Kennedy has been married to Edwin Schlossberg since 1986, with whom she gave birth to three children: Daughter Rose (1988), daughter Tatiana (1990) and son John (1993).
Alexander Babitsky