Maria Shriver leads emotional Kennedy household tributes to Tatiana Schlossberg with heartbreaking message

Tributes have started pouring in for President John F Kennedy’s granddaughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, who died of blood cancer on Tuesday at the age of 35. 

The Kennedy scion’s death was announced via the social media accounts for the JFK Library Foundation on behalf of her heartbroken relatives. 

‘Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,’ the post reads, signed by ‘George, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory’.

Following the news, Maria Shriver took to Instagram to share her memories of her cousin. Shriver is the daughter of Sargent Shriver and Eunice Kennedy, JFK’s sister.

‘I return to this space today to pay tribute to my sweet, beloved Tatiana, who left this earth today,’ she wrote. ‘I return to this space to pay tributes and honor her loving and supportive family, who came together and did everything they possibly could to help her. 

‘I return to this space heartbroken because Tatiana loved life,’ Shriver continued. ‘She loved her life and she fought like hell to try to save it.’

‘I cannot make sense of this,’ Shriver said. ‘I cannot make any sense of it at all. None. Zero.’ 

She went on to remember her cousin as a ‘great journalist’ who ‘used her words to educate others about the earth and how to save it,’ and said Schlossberg ‘created a beautiful life with her extraordinary husband, George, and children, Eddie and Josie.’

‘She was valiant, strong, courageous,’ Shriver said. 

Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of JFK, has died from blood cancer at the age of 35, just six weeks after she revealed her diagnosis

Former First Lady of California Maria Shriver led the family’s tributes 

The former First Lady of California then went on to say her heart has always been with Caroline Kennedy, Schlossberg’s mother, who she said has been a ‘rock’ and a ‘source of love’ to the family.

At that point, Shriver asked for prayers for the family.

‘Whatever your faith, please pray for Tatiana and her grieving family,’ she wrote, saying the mother-of-two ‘was the light, the humor [and] the joy’ of the family.

‘She was smart, wicked smart as they say, and sassy. She was fun, funny, loving, caring, a perfect daughter, sister, mother, cousin, niece, friend, all of it…’ 

‘Those of us left behind will make sure Eddie and Josie know what a beautiful, courageous spirit their mother was and will always be,’ Shriver vowed, saying Schlossberg took ‘after her extraordinary mother, Caroline.’

‘May we all hold Tatiana’s family in our collective embrace, not just today, but in the days ahead and may each of you who read this know how lucky you are to be alive right now.

‘Please pause and honor your life,’ she concluded. ‘It truly is such a gift.’ 

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.