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Joan Kennedy (1936-2025): The Last of Camelot
People US
|October 27, 2025
SHE MARRIED INTO A DYNASTY, FOUGHT A PUBLIC BATTLE WITH ALCOHOLISM THAT INSPIRED MILLIONS—AND REFUSED TO BE DEFINED BY HER STRUGGLES
A Complex Life Joan with her thenhusband, Ted, in 1962. Below: The couple with kids (from left) Patrick, Kara and Ted Jr. on a family ski trip in Massachusetts in 1975.
For someone who confessed that she never quite fit in with the tight-knit, boisterous Kennedy clan, Joan Kennedy looked right at home at the family’s annual Fourth of July celebration in Hyannis Port, Mass., over the summer. Decked out in a vibrant pink blouse, floral-print pants, a red scarf and black sunglasses, and seated in a wheelchair, Joan—the former wife of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy—was all smiles in a video shot from a rooftop that her niece Kerry Kennedy posted on social media.
AMERICAN ROYALTY 1. "Ted and I are so different," Joan (with JFK and Ted at the couple's 1958 wedding) said prior to their divorce in 1982.
This story is from the October 27, 2025 edition of People US.
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