Caroline Kennedy

American lawyer, diplomat and author, also noted as the only daughter of John F. and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Gracious, dignified and productive, she is a credit to her mother's upbringing and her own quality. She and her brother "John John" were picture-perfect babies for a young president. It was just before bedtime on 22 November 1963 when Caroline's nurse told her that her father was dead and the five-year-old mourned deeply.

She moved with her mother and brother to New York City where she entered a Convent school. By the time that her mother married Greek multimillionaire Ari Onassis on 20 October 1968, she was poised in international travel and situations, but never really warmed up to her step-father.

At Concord Academy in Massachusetts, which she entered in 1972, Kennedy's interests in film, photography and social issues began to take form. In 1973 she interviewed coal miners in Tennessee for a documentary, and the following summer she visited drug rehab centers in Hong Kong and worked as an intern at her Uncle Ted's Washington office. After graduating from Concord, she studied art appreciation in London. By the time she entered Harvard-Radcliffe the following year, she had dated, smoked pot, refused to have a society debut and was an object of great curiosity to the public.

Kennedy was drawn to the media as a career and interned at the New York Daily News in 1977. Graduating in 1979 with a degree in fine arts, she began working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1980. While there, she met 12-year-older Edwin Schlossberg, a cultural historian who was quiet, affluent, artistic and intellectual. They fell deeply in love but moved forward slowly.

They married on 19 July 1986 in Cape Cod, and their daughter Rose was born on 25 June 1988 and Tatiana in May 1990. Their son, John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg, was born on 19 January 1993.