Caroline Kennedy and Husband Ed Are Like 'New Parents' Again After Moving In with Tatiana's Widower to Help Raise Her Kids (Exclusive)

Juliet Pennington, Joseph KonigTue, June 9, 2026 at 11:01 PM UTC

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Ed Schlossberg, Caroline Kennedy, Tatiana Schlossberg and George MoranCredit: Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty; Steven Senne/AP Photo -

Tatiana Schlossberg's parents, Caroline Kennedy and Ed Schlossberg, moved in with her widower to help raise her children, according to Jack Schlossberg

Tatiana died in December 2025 at 35 after battling acute myeloid leukemia, a blood cancer

She left behind two young children — 4-year-old son Edwin and 2-year-old daughter Josephine — in the care of her husband, George Moran

Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John F. Kennedy, and her husband, Ed Schlossberg, are "playing the role of new parents right now" after moving in with their late daughter Tatiana Schlossberg's widower to help raise their grandchildren, son Jack Schlossberg tells PEOPLE.

Tatiana died in December 2025 at 35 after battling acute myeloid leukemia, a blood cancer, leaving behind two young children — 4-year-old son Edwin and 2-year-old daughter Josephine — in the care of her husband, George Moran.

Moran is a doctor whom Tatiana married in 2017 after they met while attending Yale University.

"My parents are grandparents, but they're really playing the role of new parents right now," Tatiana's younger brother Jack says. "They live with my niece and nephew and take care of them every single day. They're really taking everything in stride, but really taking care of the kids."

"Most people don't realize that they are really acting as new parents right now, and they're all living in the same apartment," the 33-year-old adds.

Caroline Kennedy, left, her husband, Edwin Schlossberg, center left, and her children Tatiana Schlossberg, center right, and Jack Schlossberg, right, on Oct. 29, 2023, in Boston.Credit: AP Photo/Steven Senne

Tatiana, an environmental journalist and author, penned a heartbreaking essay for The New Yorker last year that disclosed her fatal disease and reflected on generations of tragedies within the extended Kennedy family. She also criticized her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the harm she said he was doing to the country with his attacks on the U.S. public health system and his alliance with President Donald Trump.

When she was first told by a doctor that she had only about a year to live, Tatiana wrote in the essay, "my first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn't remember me."

"My son might have a few memories, but he'll probably start confusing them with pictures he sees or stories he hears," she wrote. "I didn't ever really get to take care of my daughter — I couldn't change her diaper or give her a bath or feed her, all because of the risk of infection after my transplants."

"I was gone for almost half of her first year of life. I don't know who, really, she thinks I am, and whether she will feel or remember, when I am gone, that I am her mother," she added.

In the November 2025 essay, published roughly a month before she died, Tatiana wrote that her husband "did everything for me that he possibly could" and that he was "perfect," leaving her feeling "so cheated and so sad that I don't get to keep living the wonderful life I had with this kind, funny, handsome genius I managed to find."

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"He talked to all the doctors and insurance people that I didn't want to talk to; he slept on the floor of the hospital; he didn't get mad when I was raging on steroids and yelled at him that I did not like Schweppes ginger ale, only Canada Dry," she wrote.

Tatiana Schlossberg, left, her husband, George Moran, center, and Jack Schlossberg, right, in Boston on May 20, 2018.Credit: AP Photo/Steven Senne

She also disclosed that her parents, Jack, and her older sister, Rose, "have been raising my children" through her treatments. She lamented that her death would be another tragedy they would have to bear.

In May, Caroline honored both her daughter and the Moran family at the annual John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award ceremony held at JFK's presidential library in Boston.

"This year we even have new family members here. I am so happy to welcome [Mark Shriver's daughter] Emma Shriver and [George Moran's parents] Garrett and Mary Moran," Caroline, 68, said, after noting "politics is a family endeavor and I am so grateful to the members of my family who are here tonight and whose support over many years has kept my father's spirit alive and made this institution a living memorial."

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"Most of all, we remember Tatiana, who served on the board of this library, and represented everything my parents stood for in her beautiful, amazing and too-short life," Caroline said, appearing to get emotional.

The crowd of more than 650 people clapped for Tatiana for nearly 20 seconds as Caroline collected her strength, quietly telling the audience "thank you" in the midst of the applause.

Caroline Kennedy, her husband Edwin Schlossberg, and son Jack Schlossberg at a Senate hearing on April 7, 2022.Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty

"I don't understand how my mom has so much energy, but she does. Somehow she manages," Jack tells PEOPLE. "Like, honestly, I don't know how she does it."

The youngest Schlossberg sibling launched a campaign for Congress shortly before Tatiana's death and has cited his sister as an inspiration to him in his pursuit of public service.

Speaking with PEOPLE, Jack says his niece and nephew "both make me laugh my head off, just like she did."

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