Who Is Caroline Kennedy’s Husband? All About Ed Schlossberg
Who Is Caroline Kennedy’s Husband? All About Ed Schlossberg
Caroline BlairFri, March 13, 2026 at 7:25 PM UTC
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Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and Edwin Schlossberg circa 1997 in New York City.Credit: Robin Platzer/Images/Getty -
Caroline Kennedy met Edwin "Ed" Schlossberg while she was working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1980s
The couple married in a church on Cape Cod in front of 400 guests on July 19, 1986
Schlossberg, an interactive designer and author, founded ESI Design and has written 11 books on design and philosophy
Caroline Kennedy and Edwin "Ed" Schlossberg have been married for four decades.
Schlossberg met Caroline — who is the only daughter of President John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy Onassis — while she was working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art after graduating from Radcliffe College (which is now a part of Harvard University) in the 1980s. Schlossberg, who was an interactive media designer at the time, was 13 years older than her, which is a similar age difference to the one her parents shared.
The couple married at Our Lady of Victory Church on Cape Cod, Mass., and celebrated their nuptials at the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port on July 19, 1986. They went on to have three children together: daughters Rose and Tatiana and son John "Jack."
After Schlossberg married into the Kennedy family, he had an at times strained relationship with his brother-in-law, John F. Kennedy Jr., and his wife, Carolyn Bessette.
Despite the difficult dynamics, Schlossberg gave a warm toast to the couple at JFK Jr. and Bessette's rehearsal dinner where he said, "Politics plus fashion equals passion," Carole Radziwill recalled in the 2024 book JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography, written by PEOPLE's Liz McNeil and JFK Jr.'s former assistant RoseMarie Terenzio.
Here's everything to know about Caroline Kennedy's husband, Edwin "Ed" Schlossberg.
He is an author and artist
Caroline Kennedy and husband Ed Schlossberg ahead of the annual gala on May 4, 2025.Credit: Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty
Schlossberg was born and raised in New York City and continued his education there by attending Columbia University for his undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees. While studying science and literature, he began pursuing interactive design and art. In the late 1970s, Schlossberg combined his passions of design and education by working with museums to create interactive exhibits.
In 1977, he founded ESI Design, a firm that specializes in designing and producing immersive and interactive exhibits for museums, corporations and cultural institutions across the country. While Schlossberg has found a niche in the interactive design field, he shared that it wasn't his original plan.
“I never set out to be a designer,” Schlossberg told New York Magazine in 2001. “What I was doing was thinking. Suddenly people began to pay for my thoughts."
In addition to being a business owner and designer, Schlossberg has also written 11 books — including Interactive Excellence: Defining and Developing New Standards for the Twenty-first Century and The Philosopher's Game: Match Your Wits Against the 100 Greatest Thinkers of All Time.
He met Caroline at the Met
Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg circa 1980s in New York City.Credit: PL Gould/IMAGES/Getty
At the same time that Schlossberg was getting his start in the design world, he met Caroline while she was working in the educational-film department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in N.Y.C. Caroline started working at the Met after graduating with a degree in fine arts in 1980.
Despite being in the public eye, both Schlossberg and Caroline prioritized their privacy over the years and rarely publicly address their relationship. In a 2001 profile with New York Magazine, one insider said that Schlossberg was "fiercely protective of Caroline."
They wed in 1986 and JFK Jr. gave a toast
Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg on their wedding day on July 19, 1986 in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.Credit: PL Gould/IMAGES/Getty
In March 1986, The New York Times confirmed that Caroline and Schlossberg were engaged and planning a wedding for later that summer.
The couple married in front of 400 guests in a Catholic ceremony at Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville, Mass., on Cape Cod on July 19, 1986. They kept their wedding details confidential, per The New York Times wedding announcement.
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JFK Jr. served as the best man, while Caroline's cousin, Maria Shriver, was the matron of honor. Her uncle, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, walked her down the aisle. During the reception, JFK Jr. raised a glass for a toast to the newlyweds.
"He said, 'After Daddy died, Mommy gathered us together and said, 'Now it's the three of us.' Well, now it's the four of us,' " a wedding attendee recalled to The New York Times in 2009.
Caroline — who wore a Carolina Herrera silk gown with embellished flowers — continued their celebrations at the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port. Other notable guests included singer Carly Simon and writers Theodore Sorensen, Richard Goodwin and John Kenneth Galbraith, as well as former Kennedy administration aides.
He and Caroline welcomed three children together
Tatiana Schlossberg, Jack Schlossberg, Rose Schlossberg, Edwin Schlossberg and Caroline Kennedy on June 22, 2013 in New Ross, Ireland in 2013.Credit: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Getty
Caroline and Schlossberg lived together in N.Y.C. after tying the knot and started a family a few years later. They became parents in June 1988 when they welcomed their first child, daughter Rose, who was named after her great-grandmother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
They expanded their family in May 1990 with the birth of daughter Tatiana Celia and later son John Bouvier "Jack" in January 1993. They raised their children in Manhattan and prioritized their privacy, rarely taking them to public events. Caroline told The Washington Post in 2014 that she raised her children with the same values that were instilled in her.
“I feel so fortunate to have had such great role models, and I hope that I have been able to pass some of the lessons they taught me on to my children,” she said.
Rose has continued to have a private life. She attended her mom's alma mater, Harvard, and studied English ahead of her 2010 graduation. Rose later received a master's degree in interactive communications at New York University and has since worked in film and media.
Jack jumped into the public sphere by launching an active presence on social media, and later a run for office. He studied history at Yale University and graduated in 2015 before getting his law degree at Harvard in 2022. Since then, Jack has openly spoken about his political beliefs — including condemning his cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — on social media.
“I'm inspired by my family's legacy of public service. It's something that I'm very proud of,” he said on the Today show in 2017. “But I'm still trying to make my own way and figure things out. So stay tuned — I don't know what I'm going to do.”
In 2025, Jack announced that he was running as a Democrat for the U.S. House of Representatives in New York's 12th Congressional District.
The couple's second daughter, Tatiana, pursued a career in journalism after graduating from Yale University in 2012 and the University of Oxford in 2014. She began writing for The New York Times after graduation and specialized in climate and environment reporting.
She resided in N.Y.C. with her husband, George Moran, whom she married in 2017. They welcomed two children together: son Edwin and daughter Josephine. Shortly after welcoming her daughter, Tatiana was diagnosed with cancer, a "rare mutation called Inversion 3," as she shared in an essay for The New Yorker in November 2025. Amid her cancer journey, her kids moved in with her parents.
"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 in the essay. "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."
Tatiana died on Dec. 30, 2025, at 35 years old.
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