President Obama’s mother-in-law lived her entire life in Chicago, so it was only natural that she made the move to the White House with some reluctance. But a year later, it seems Marian Robinson is in Washington to stay.
The “First Grandmother”, whose primary role is to look after her granddaughters Malia, 11, and Sasha, 8, has been carving out a new life for herself and, in the words of the President, she has become “quite the lady about town”.
Mrs Robinson, a widow, has made friends, goes shopping on her own, enjoys watching performances at the Kennedy Centre and takes Malia and Sasha to and from school almost every day — all while enjoying a level of anonymity that has the President and her