Is it Caroline Kennedy or Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg.

[aikoaiko]

I recall for the longest time that she went professionally by Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, but more recently it seems as if media, various websites like wiki, and DU are using the former (Caroline Kennedy).

I'm fine with either, but has there been a change by her or just us?

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. As I understand it, she never changed her name after getting married.

So it would be Kennedy.

[aikoaiko]

2. True, if she never changed her name then it would have to be CK.

Its odd that so many big media used Schlossberg.

Thanks.

[Captain Hilts]

3. The vast majority of women STILL take husbands' names.

Not as much in her circles, but something like 75% change names.

But when you've got a famous one, you're not likely to mask it with another. That's why you actually have Anna Eleanor Roosevelt III or IVth, I'm not sure which.

[aikoaiko]

5. True enough, its just that I recall so many media actually using Schlossberg in years past

that I thought she used it.

Apparently I was wrong.

[Captain Hilts]

7. I made the same mistake. I think the NYT uses CKS. nt

[question everything]

6. Things have changed. Hillary Rodham did not, either

being politically active long before she married Bill.

However she did change after Bill lost an elections and it was presented to her that she needed to appear as the supporting little wife.

[Captain Hilts]

14. It was actually pretty radical NOT to take your husbands name in the 70s. nt

[SharonAnn]

15. Fewer and fewer U.S. women do that. I didn't when I married 29 years ago. Older, professional

women are less likely to change their name.

Sometimes, when I'm writing a social note or invitation to people who know my husband but don't know me, I sign it from him and from me, with my husband's last name added to mine. That's just to make it easier for people to know that I'm his wife so they don't wonder "Who is that?".

[Captain Hilts]

16. Something like 75% still do. the numbers shocked me.

This country - and women - are a whole lot more conservative than the demographic you and I run with.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

20. That's what I recently read, which was confusing. Being visible in NY, the media called her Caroline

Kennedy Schlossberg, until very recently.

I was so surprised that when the Schlossberg disappered, I thought she might have gotten divorced.

[Horse with no Name]

4. Caroline Kennedy. n/t

[Captain Hilts]

8. This issue also relates to why 'Eleanor Roosevelt' was often called 'Eleanor Roosevelt'...

while FDR was still alive. Usually, it was the practice to refer to wives as 'Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt', and widows as 'Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt', but since 'Roosevelt' actually was HER name, she got it before he died. Truman always emphasized that "she was a Roosevelt before she married a Roosevelt."

Interesting.

[margotb822]

11. I saw the FDR special on the History Channel

and they noted that she and FDR were actually distant cousins, which accounts for the same last name.

[Captain Hilts]

12. 5th cousins. She and he had to draw it on endless cocktail napkins to explain it. nt

[endarkenment]

9. She kept her name.

[rhett o rick]

10. I support Caroline for Senator. nm

[Romulox]

13. The name "Schlossberg" won't get you a Legacy Admission to the Senate, so it's Kennedy. nt

[Critters2]

17. Exactly. She was Schlossberg until being Kennedy proved useful. nt

[MiniMe]

18. In this case, you are wrong

She never changed her name to Schlossberg, so she would have had to know that she would want a Senate seat in the future. The fact that she is interested in it now has no bearing on what she is called.

Why all the anger that she never changed her name?

[HeraldSquare212]

19. She was repeatedly referred to Caroline Kennedy Schossberg in the press

before this all started. Her marriage may be a strained one, too - gossip is she's dating the publisher of the NY Times. So that may explain 'Schlossberg' disappearing, also.

[MiniMe]

21. Just because the media referred to her as CKS doesn't mean

that it is her legal name. She never changed her name when she got married. Every once in a while, the media is wrong. I know it's hard to believe, but it's true

[marshall]

23. She has ALWAYS used the name Kennedy and not her husband's names

Her many books are published under the name Caroline Kennedy. What other people call her, especially news media, is not her decision.

[MiniMe]

26. That is what I said

It was the person I was responding to that said "But the media refers to her that way". I was pointing out that it is possible for the media to be wrong, as they were in referring to her as CKS

[marshall]

29. Sorry, I didn't mean to sound like I was refuting you

I was supporting what you were saying with the proof that can be seen on the covers of her books.

[MiniMe]

30. Thanks

I don't understand why some people think she is "changing" her name because she wants the Senate seat. And then think that because the MSM has been calling her CKS in the past they are correct. The MSM made assumptions, and they were wrong.

I didn't think you were disputing me exactly, I thought maybe you replied to the wrong person. No worries. :hi: :hug:

[polmaven]

25. Paricularly when the media

is largely male dominated, and cannot imagine that a woman does not automatically become an extension of her husband when she marries, losing all trace of her own identity!

[apocalypsehow]

22. Remember when a certain NY Senator dropped "Rodham" when it was politically convenient? Same thing.

[MiniMe]

27. This has nothing to do with politically convenient

She has always been Caroline Kennedy, she never changed her name when she got married.

[Jersey Devil]

24. I think she should go by only "Caroline", kinda like Hillary and Madonna

It isn't just the Kennedy part that makes her more likely to get elected after her appointment expires, it's her name recognition as "Caroline". Can you name anyone else other than Hillary or Madonna who could be immediately identified by their first name only on a national basis?

[tabbycat31]

28. people actually pronounce Hillary and Madonna correctly

if I had a penny for every time that I've heard someone butcher the name Caroline, I'd be richer than a Kennedy. It even happens on this forum.

My name is Caroline (yes, I was named after CK) and when I was growing up, there was one year in either middle or high school where I did not have a single teacher pronounce my name correctly. I was even yelled at for correcting the pronunciation of my own name and correcting people became a losing battle. I'm hoping that Caroline Kennedy back in the spotlight will teach people how to pronounce "Caroline" correctly (even some of newscasters pronounce it "Carolyn")