Caroline Kennedy Moves In With Her Late Daughter's Family to Help Raise Her Grandchildren

Jun 12, 2026 by apost team

Tatiana Schlossberg died on Dec. 30, 2025. She was 35 years old. She left behind a 4-year-old son, Edwin, and a 2-year-old daughter, Josephine, in the care of her husband, Dr. George Moran — a doctor she met at Yale University and married in 2017. She left behind her parents, Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg. She left behind her sister, Rose. She left behind her brother, Jack. And she left behind a family who had been at her side through everything — and who, when she was gone, simply stayed.

Tatiana was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia — an aggressive blood cancer — shortly after her daughter Josephine was born in May 2024. In November 2025, she published an essay in The New Yorker announcing her diagnosis and revealing that she had been told she had approximately one year to live. "My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn't remember me," she wrote. Her sister Rose donated bone marrow for a transplant that briefly put the cancer in remission. The cancer returned. She died six weeks after the essay was published.

Schlossberg, born May 5, 1990, was an environmental journalist and the author of "Inconspicuous Consumption," a book about the hidden environmental costs of everyday life. She was, by every account from those who knew her, brilliant, warm, and deeply funny. "She made me laugh my head off," her brother Jack told PEOPLE. "Just like she did."

In the months that followed her death, her family made a quiet decision. They did not make an announcement. They simply rearranged their lives around the two children Tatiana had left behind.

Caroline Kennedy, born Nov. 27, 1957, and Edwin Schlossberg, born July 19, 1945, moved into the same apartment as Dr. George Moran and are now caring for Edwin and Josephine every single day alongside their father.

"My parents are grandparents, but they're really playing the role of new parents right now," Jack Schlossberg told PEOPLE on June 9, 2026. "They live with my niece and nephew and take care of them every single day. Most people don't realize that they are really acting as new parents right now, and they're all living in the same apartment." Jack, who launched a campaign for Congress in 2025 and has cited his sister as an inspiration for his pursuit of public service, marveled at his mother's stamina. "I don't understand how my mom has so much energy, but she does. Somehow she manages. Like, honestly, I don't know how she does it."

The parallel to Caroline's own childhood has not been lost on those close to the family. Caroline was five days from her sixth birthday when her father, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963. Her mother, Jackie Kennedy, became a single parent overnight — and devoted the years that followed to keeping her husband's memory alive for their children. "Caroline is going to have to do for Tatiana's children what Jackie had to do for her children: keep the memory alive of their parent that they might not remember," a Kennedy family friend told PEOPLE.

The two children — Edwin, who is four, and Josephine, who is two — are too young to hold the memories themselves. Their grandmother, who has lived this before, intends to hold them for them.

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