It has always been said that the Kennedy family is the closest thing to royalty that exists in the United States. And, like any good royal family, success, wealth and power are intertwined with scandals, losses and tragedies in their history. Among these, without a doubt, the most remembered is the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which marks the 60th anniversary this year.
Despite the time that has passed, the charismatic figure of JFK continues to mark a generation of Americans and, of course, his daughter Caroline, who was five years old when her father was murdered in Dallas. But it has also influenced his direct descendants: Rose, Tatiana and Jack Schlossberg, the only grandchildren of John and Jacqueline Kennedy. The young people, now in their thirties, are the fruit of Caroline’s marriage to the artist and designer, Edwin Schlossberg. Handsome, educated and committed, they unarrogance embody the appeal of a saga that is part of the history of America.
Although they never met him, the figure of the grandfather is very present in the lives of the three brothers, who, like their mother, have learned to live with this powerful ghost of the past. “One of the most important relationships in my life is with someone I have never met: my grandfather, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy,” explained Tatiana Schlossberg at the commemoration of the centennial of the president’s birth. The young woman added that it was “a little strange to be connected to a person you don’t know,” but that she did it: “Through the study of history, something that he was passionate about.”
At thirty-three years old, Tatiana is the middle of the three siblings. She is a journalist, specialized in science and the environment: “I come from a family of politicians, but also of writers: my grandmother (Jacqueline Bouvier) was a journalist and my grandfather thought about being a reporter or owner of a newspaper. He also won the Pulitzer,” she declared in an interview in Vogue.
Tatiana has worked at The New York Times and has published an essay on consumption and ecology. Without a doubt, his last name has helped him in his career, but his education has been excellent: like his brothers, he grew up in the exclusive Upper East Side of New York, where he went to two of its best schools: the Brearley School, an exclusive center for girls, and The Trinity, where she was prepared to enter an elite university; almost a requirement in a family like yours. In Tatiana’s case, she studied History at Yale and completed her training at Oxford.
At Yale she met medical student George Moran, whom she married in 2017. The wedding took place at the beautiful estate on Martha’s Vineyard that her grandmother, the iconic Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, bought in 1979. The New York Times echoed the link with a brief note, where he indicated that the governor of Massachusetts, the political fiefdom of the Kennedys, was in charge of officiating it. Very few photos of the bride and groom were distributed, showing the “simple bridal gown, with a closed neck and lace bodice” that, according to People magazine, was reminiscent of the one that Carolina Herrera designed for her mother when she got married, in 1986.
The discretion surrounding the wedding and the recent birth of Tatiana’s first baby is another example of how Caroline Kennedy has raised her children. While she was the most famous girl in America, portrayed to infinity, the three Schlossberg brothers have enjoyed a childhood away from the spotlight. Also, unlike her mother, who starred in dozens of poses, there are hardly any public images of the family together.
The Kennedy imprint, however, has always been there: all three were raised as Catholics, the religion of the family clan, of Irish origin. They also had the care of Marta Sgubin, the nanny of their mother and their uncle John, and whom everyone adores. “A saint in life,” as Tatiana defines her.
Jackie, the glamorous grandmother, passed away in 1994, but she was very present in her granddaughters’ early years. Rose’s classmates, her eldest, still remember the day the former first lady of the United States accompanied her on a field trip to the Museum of Natural History in New York. Rose, who is 35 years old, was the one who had the most contact with her. She is also the one who resembles him most physically: she has inherited her harmonious beauty and her interest in fashion. However, she did not inherit her name: biographer Christopher Andersen explains that it was Jackie herself who insisted that her first granddaughter be named after her mother-in-law, Rose Fitzgerald.
Rose went to the same schools as her sister Tatiana. Those who treated her remember that she was very discreet with respect to her family, although she attracted their attention due to her determined and spontaneous character. The death in an accident of her uncle John, in 1999, to whom she was very close, plunged her into grief. It also made her a very wealthy preteen, as she inherited a large trust fund. Like her brothers, she has studied at an elite university: in her case, Harvard, where she graduated in English Philology, a discipline that she combined with film classes and an interest in fashion. She completed her training with a master’s degree in performing arts.
Since then, she has dedicated herself to audiovisuals, with an experimental touch: in 2016 she wrote and starred in an online series, End Time Girls Club: a satirical vision, set in the apocalypse, of YouTube beauty tutorials. This project has been followed by others, among which a singular short stands out: Little Gay Tragedy, in which Rose plays a young woman fascinated by a lesbian couple. She lives in California and, although her work is featured on her website, she is the least known granddaughter of hers.
Of the three, Jack, thirty years old, is the one with the most media profile and a possible political future. He has long served as a companion for his mother – today ambassador to Australia – at public events. Mostly, they are related to the memory of his grandfather or to the Democratic party. In them, he appears as the perfect apprentice of a trade, politics and international relations, that his mother has experienced from the cradle. In any case, both caused a sensation with his appearance at a more mundane event: the 2017 Met Gala, hosted by Anna Wintour.
That same year, at the Profile in Courage awards ceremony, at the Library-museum dedicated to JFK’s legacy, Caroline introduced her son as: “The youngest, but not the quietest, member of the Kennedys.” The public was fascinated by the Kennedy aura of that 24-year-old boy, tall and slender, who looked like a photocopy of his uncle John and spoke fluently in public. “This Library allows me to have a relationship with the man we never met, but who holds a very special place in our hearts,” she said, referring to her grandfather, whom she cites in most of her public statements. she.
Like his sister Tatiana, Jack has a degree in History from Yale University. His mother’s experience as ambassador to Japan during Obama’s presidency helped her specialize in this country. Thanks to this connection, he also worked in Asia, although in 2017 he returned to America to enter Harvard Law School, where his grandfather and other US presidents studied. He completed a double degree and, in 2023, he passed the exam to become a lawyer in the state of New York.
He celebrated it by practicing paddle surfing in the waters of Manhattan, as reflected in his Instagram profile. Through this medium he has expressed his rejection of the radical positions of Robert F. Kennedy, his mother’s first cousin, and another Kennedy who aspires to the presidency of his country. It remains to be seen if Jack will do it too and follow in the footsteps of his grandfather: that figure they never met but who has influenced, everything indicates for the better, the lives of JFK’s three grandchildren.
