Popular on the London social circuit and admired by many for her high spirits, Kathleen eventually became romantically involved with Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam. The couple planned to wed after Lord Fitzwilliam's divorce; however, while on a trip to the south of France on 13 May 1948, both were killed as the result of an airplane crash in Saint-Bauzile, Ardèche, France.
Only Kick's father represented the family at her funeral. Rose did not attend and, allegedly, discouraged her daughter's siblings from attending as well. She was later quoted as saying her daughter's death was "God casting a finger."
Kick is buried in the Cavendish family plot at Saint Peter's Church in Edensor, England, near Chatsworth in Derbyshire. The gymnasium at Manhattanville College is named in her honor. Her brother John F. Kennedy visited the grave shortly before his own death in 1963. Robert F. Kennedy named his eldest daughter in honor of her.
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