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Jackie Kennedy became a grandmother in 1988 when daughter Caroline Kennedy welcomed her first child, Rose
Caroline gave birth to two more children before Jackie’s death in 1994: daughter Tatiana in 1990 and son Jack in 1993
Tatiana died at age 35 on Dec. 30, 2025, following a terminal cancer diagnosis
Jackie Kennedy’s legacy carried on through her two granddaughters, Rose and Tatiana Schlossberg.
The former first lady first became a grandmother on June 25, 1988, when Rose Kennedy Schlossberg was born to designer Edwin Schlossberg and Caroline Kennedy, Jackie’s only living daughter with President John F. Kennedy.
Two years later, Caroline and Edwin’s second child, daughter Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg, arrived. The couple also welcomed a son, Jack, in 1993.
Though Jackie’s grandchildren were still young when she died from non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 1994, they have found ways to connect with their late grandparents. In 2019, Tatiana told Vanity Fair that she bonded with her late grandmother by learning about her interests.
“I didn’t really know them,” she said of her maternal grandparents. “That’s kind of how I’ve connected with them, by studying them and their time, but also the eras and patterns that fascinated them, and imagining where we would disagree. That’s an important way for me personally to connect with my family legacy.”
As adults, Rose and Tatiana pursued careers in film and media, while their younger brother has leaned into politics. In November 2025, Tatiana announced her terminal cancer diagnosis in a heartbreaking essay published by The New Yorker. She died on Dec. 30, her family announced on social media, at age 35.
Here’s everything to know about Jackie Kennedy’s granddaughters, Rose and Tatiana Schossberg.
Rose was named after JFK’s mom
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Jack Schlossberg and Rose Schlossberg attend a ceremony to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the visit by US President John F Kennedy on June 22, 2013 in New Ross, Ireland.
Jackie and JFK’s first granddaughter was named after his mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. The eldest of Caroline’s children, Rose, bears a striking resemblance to her grandmother Jackie.
They spent their childhood summers at Jackie’s house on Martha’s Vineyard
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Rose, Tatiana and Jack Schlossberg in 2016
Rose and Tatiana, along with their little brother Jack, were raised in New York City, though they spent their early summers at their grandmother’s house on Martha’s Vineyard.
“I’m very lucky that I got to spend my summers at my grandmother’s house on Martha’s Vineyard,” Tatiana told PEOPLE in 2019. “My brother really loved fishing, and he spent a lot of summers working on a charter fishing boat.”
They both attended Ivy League schools
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Rose Schlossberg, Jack Schlossberg, and Tatiana Schlossberg at the 39th Annual Kennedy Center Honors.
Rose shares an alma mater with her late grandfather JFK: She graduated from Harvard University in 2010, 70 years after the former president received his degree from the institution.
After graduation, Rose continued to pursue her education, earning a master’s degree from New York University in interactive telecommunications.
Tatiana also attended an Ivy League school, receiving a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University in 2012. She went on to earn a master’s degree in the same subject from the University of Oxford in England.
Tatiana worked for The New York Times
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Tatiana Schlossberg in 2019
Following graduation, Tatiana began her career in journalism as a municipal reporter for The Record in New Jersey. She also worked as an intern at The New York Times, eventually making her way to the publication’s Metro section before dedicating herself to the paper’s Science section.
“Journalism is what I think I’m good at. It’s important for people to contribute in the ways they can,” she told Vogue in 2019.
The Kennedy family has a history in the industry, with Caroline publishing poetry anthologies and other works, Jackie writing a column for a newspaper, and Tatiana’s late uncle, John F. Kennedy Jr., co-founding a political magazine.
“My grandmother was a journalist,” Tatiana told Vogue. “She had a column, ‘The Inquiring Camera Girl,’ for a Washington paper. I know my grandfather had thought about being a reporter, or of owning a paper,” she added. “He also was a writer and won the Pulitzer Prize.”
Rose works in film and media
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Tatiana Schlossberg, Jack Schlossberg, Rose Schlossberg, Edwin Schlossberg and Caroline Kennedy at a ceremony to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the visit by US President John F Kennedy in New Ross, Ireland in 2013.
Early in her career, Rose worked as a production assistant on several projects. In 2016, she launched her own comedy web series, End Times Girls Club, with friend Mara Nelson-Greenberg, in which she also starred.
“It came up as a response to seeing the way that New York responded to Hurricane Sandy, and how people were grossly underprepared — specifically, girls in damsel in distress mode,” she told Mashable of the web series. “I thought it would be interesting to create this world where girls have to be survivalists without compromising their cute factor.”
Since then, she has continued to work on various other projects.
They both married — and Tatiana made Caroline a grandmother
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Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and daughters Rose Schlossberg and Tatiana Schlossberg at the Democratic National Convention at the Pepsi Center August 25, 2008 in Denver, Colorado.
Nearly three years after marrying husband George Moran at her family’s Martha’s Vineyard estate in September 2017, Tatiana welcomed her first child, making Caroline a first-time grandmother.
Tatiana’s brother Jack confirmed the baby’s arrival during an April 2022 Today show appearance, saying, “I have a new nephew. It’s a boy.”
Jack also shared that the baby’s name was Edwin after their father.
Tatiana and her husband welcomed their second child, a daughter, in May 2024.
Rose has reportedly been married since 2022, when she wed her longtime girlfriend, Rory McAuliffe.
Tatiana died in December 2025 following a terminal cancer diagnosis
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Tatiana Schlossberg in 2019
In a Nov. 22 essay published by The New Yorker, Tatiana revealed she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. The diagnosis came after she gave birth to her second baby in 2024, after her doctor noticed an imbalance in her white blood cell count.
She spent the next several months undergoing chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant and was eventually told by doctors she had a year left to live.
“For my whole life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student and a good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry,” she wrote. “Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family’s life, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.”
On Dec. 30, 2025, Tatiana died at age 35. The news was shared by the social media accounts for the JFK Library Foundation, on behalf of Tatiana’s extended family.
“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” read the post, which was signed by “George, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory.”
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