Editing Maria Shriver (section)

==Early life==
Shriver was born in [[Chicago]], Illinois, on November 6, 1955, the second child of politician [[Sargent Shriver]] and activist [[Eunice Kennedy Shriver|Eunice Kennedy]]. She is a niece of the late U.S. president [[John F. Kennedy]], [[U.S. attorney general]] and [[U.S. senator]] [[Robert F. Kennedy]], U.S. senator [[Ted Kennedy]], and six other [[Kennedy family|siblings]]. A Roman Catholic,<ref>{{cite web |last=Winfrey |first=Oprah |url=https://www.oprah.com/spirit/oprah-interviews-maria-shriver/2 |title=Oprah Talks to Maria Shriver |work=[[The Oprah Winfrey Show]] |date=May 30, 2008 |access-date=December 29, 2021 |archive-date=May 31, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100531070619/http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Oprah-Interviews-Maria-Shriver/2 |url-status=live }}</ref> she is of mostly [[Irish American|Irish]] and [[German American|German]] descent.

Shriver spent her middle school years living in [[Paris]]<ref>{{cite web |last=John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. |url=https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/the-kennedy-family/r-sargent-shriver |title=R. Sargent Shriver |work=R. Sargent Shriver [[John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum|JFK Library]] |access-date=May 3, 2021 }}</ref> save for a brief period when Shriver's family moved temporarily to [[Chicago]] in the summer of 1968 following [[Eunice Kennedy Shriver]]'s work with the [[Special Olympics]].<ref name="sargent">{{cite web |last=Sargent Shriver Peace Institute. |url=http://www.sargentshriver.org/article/us-ambassador-to-france |title=US Ambassador to France |work=Sargent Shriver Peace Institute – US Ambassador to France |access-date=May 3, 2021 }}</ref>

Shriver returned permanently from France to [[Bethesda, Maryland]], in 1970,<ref name="sargent"/> where she attended [[Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart]] high school and graduated in 1973,<ref>{{cite tweet | user=mariashriver |number=234776562074001410 |title=Shout out to Olympian @katieledecky who attends Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, MD. My alma mater!}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Alumnae Spotlights {{!}} Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart|url=https://www.stoneridgeschool.org/alumnae/alumnae-spotlights|access-date=June 5, 2021|website=www.stoneridgeschool.org}}</ref> later attending [[Manhattanville College]] in [[Purchase, New York]], for two years, then transferring into a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in [[American studies]] at [[Georgetown University]] in Washington, D.C., graduating in June 1977.<ref>[http://www.shriverreport.com/awn/contributors.php About the Contributors] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110504134055/http://www.shriverreport.com/awn/contributors.php |date=May 4, 2011 }} ''[[The Shriver Report]]''. Accessed May 23, 2011.</ref><ref>[http://explore.georgetown.edu/documents/?DocumentID=740&PageTemplateID=52 Well-known Georgetown Alumni] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613025811/http://explore.georgetown.edu/documents/?DocumentID=740&PageTemplateID=52 |date=June 13, 2011 }}. Accessed May 23, 2011.</ref>

Shriver is a fourth cousin of tennis player [[Pam Shriver]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-sep-04-la-sp-dwyre-us-open-20100905-story.html|title=ESPN's Pam Shriver talks as good a game as she played|last=Dwyre|first=Bill|date=September 4, 2010|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=July 6, 2019|issn=0458-3035|archive-date=July 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706210927/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-sep-04-la-sp-dwyre-us-open-20100905-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>