Kennedy, Kathleen Agnes

The grave of Kathleen Cavendish at Saint Peter's Church, Edensor

Kathleen Agnes Kennedy was the second daughter of Senator Joseph P.Kennedy and a sister of the US President John F.Kennedy.

In 1943 she came to England to work for the Red Cross and married William Cavendish, the Marquess of Hartington the heir of the 10th Duke of Devonshire. The Dukes having their ancestral home at Chatsworth House.

Four months after the marriage her husband was killed in action with the Coldstream Guards by a German sniper in Belgium.

In 1948 Kathleen died in an air crash with her lover Peter Wentworth-FitzWilliam whilst on their way to seek the blessing of Joseph Kennedy Sr for their relationship.

Because Kathleen had married a Protestant she was ostracised from the Kennedy family, with only her father attending the funeral from the Kennedy clan.

Later, Rose Kennedy was said to have forgiven her daughter was said to be delighted when Robert Kennedy named his daughter Kathleen Hartington Kennedy in his sisters honour and in the winter of 1964 Robert visited Derbyshire to pay his respects at her grave at the Cavendish family plot at Saint Peter's Church, Edensor, near Chatsworth.

See GRAVE MATTERS for more information about well known people buried in Derbyshire.

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