Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy married William John Robert Cavendish, heir to the Dukedom of Devonshire on May 6, 1944, becoming the Marchioness of Hartington. Kathleen's husband was killed in action in September of that year (her brother Joseph, in the background, was killed in action a month earlier). Kathleen remained a fixture on the London social scene and eventually became engaged to Peter Wentworth FitzWilliam, 8th Earl FitzWilliam. They were both killed in an airplane accident in 1948; she was 28.