Caroline Kennedy is following in the footsteps of her mother, Jacqueline “Jackie” Kennedy Onassis, to make sure her late daughter Tatiana Schlossberg’s young children remember her.
“Caroline has to do what her mother did for her and[her brother]John in order to raise her children to remember their mother. And she has that example,” a source told People on Tuesday.
Ms. Schlossberg is survived by her husband, George Moran, and two children, a 3-year-old son, Edwin, and a 1-year-old daughter, Josephine.
The source, described by the outlet as a “family friend” of the Kennedy family, noted how Jackie O kept the memory of her husband John F. Kennedy alive for Caroline and her late brother John F. Kennedy Jr. after their father was assassinated.
“Tatiana’s son is the same age John was when he lost his father. Sadly, history is repeating itself,” Kennedy historian Stephen M. Gillon told the magazine.
“When you think about the loss that Caroline suffered, the only person who suffered as much was John, and Caroline lost John,” Gillon continued. “For Caroline, it is a series of terrible personal tragedies, and it may be the most difficult of them all.”
A representative for Caroline did not immediately respond to Page Six for comment.
Schlossberg died on December 30th at the age of 35. She passed away one month after announcing her battle with acute myeloid leukemia.
“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning,” the JFK Library Foundation announced on Instagram on behalf of Schlossberg’s relatives. “She will always be in our hearts.”
The message was signed by the family: “George, Edwin, Josephine Moran Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory.”
Moran and her children mourned Tatiana’s death Monday at a private funeral at St. Ignatius Loyola Church on New York City’s Upper East Side.
Her mother Caroline, father Edwin Schlossberg, brothers Jack and Rose, and cousins Kerry Kennedy and Joe Kennedy III were among other family members to join the church.
In a November 2025 essay for The New Yorker, Tatiana detailed how she was diagnosed shortly after giving birth to Josephine in May 2024.
She also heartbreakingly detailed her fears that her children would not remember her after doctors told her during her final clinical trial that she would be kept alive for “probably a year.”
“My first thought was that the children whose face was permanently stuck inside my eyelids would never remember me,” she wrote.
In the conclusion of her essay, she talked about how she spent as much time as possible with her children before she died.
“Mostly, I try to live and be with them in the moment. But living in the moment is harder than I think, so I keep memories coming and going. Many of them are from my childhood, so it feels as if I’m watching myself and my children grow up at the same time.”
“Sometimes I trick myself into thinking that I’ll remember this forever, that I’ll remember this even when I die. Of course I don’t. But I don’t know what death is like, and there’s no one to tell me what happens after death, so I keep pretending. I keep trying to remember.”
