Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kara Kennedy Allen was a member of the American political dynasty, the Kennedy family. She was the oldest of the three children of U.S. Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy from Massachusetts, and the niece of President John Kennedy and Senator Bobby Kennedy. Kara Kennedy, the mother of two children, served on the boards of numerous charities and was a film maker and television producer. Kara Anne Kennedy was born in 1960 to Virginia Joan Kennedy and the late Edward Moore Kennedy, Sr. in Bronxville, New York. In his book True Compass, Senator Kennedy wrote about his joy at her birth: " I had never seen a more beautiful baby nor been more happy." Her siblings are Edward Moore Kennedy, Jr., and Patrick Joseph Kennedy II. She spent her early years in Virginia and Cape Cod. She attended the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C.