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It’s what grandmothers love to do.
Matchmaking Ethel Kennedy helped put grandson Conor and Taylor Swift in each other’s arms last week at the family compound on Cape Cod.
Kennedy, 83, a big fan of Swift’s music, orchestrated a “Love Story’’ between her 18-year-old grandson and the country singer-songwriter.
As The Post first reported, Taylor, 22, and Conor — dubbed TaCo by online fans — spent last weekend getting cozy at Hyannis Port.
They met on July 4, and fireworks instantly went off. They’re now “infatuated” with each other, according to a Kennedy source.
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Robert F. Kennedy’s widow had been “fascinated” with Swift’s musical talent and humanitarian reputation for about a year, an insider said.
Ethel read a 2011 New Yorker piece in which Swift gushed that when on tour, she uses her computer to watch TV documentaries about the famed family.
“I’m just so obsessed with the whole history of JFK and RFK,” she told the magazine, adding that she had completed a 900-page book called “The Kennedy Women.”
Ethel and Swift became such great pals, the Grammy winner flew out to the Sundance Film Festival in January to walk Ethel down the red carpet at the premiere of “Ethel,” the Rory Kennedy-directed HBO documentary about the widow’s life.
Yesterday, Swift looked like the newest member of the clan as she face-painted some of the little Kennedy girls in the back of Ethel’s house.
Later, Taylor and Conor were spotted reading books and magazines on Ethel’s lawn.
“She looked very relaxed, very happy,” another source said.
Members of the political dynasty think “it’s cute” that Conor is going around calling the country singer his girlfriend, the sources agreed.
“I was a little surprised. It’s been two weeks and he’s in love,” one source said.
“He thinks of her as his girlfriend — not just friends or dating. He calls her his girlfriend.”
And the Kennedy kin also love Swift’s wholesome, all-American image — a perfect shot in the arm for the famed family that has been battered by bad press and traumatic deaths for decades following the glory days of Camelot.
“They think it’s great,” that source said. “Anything positive associated with an all-American girl like Taylor Swift can’t do any harm.”
Additional reporting by Emily Smith and Chuck Bennett