Lady Sarah Chatto | |
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| Born | Sarah Frances Elizabeth Armstrong-Jones (1964-05-01)1 May 1964 (age 61) Kensington Palace, London, England |
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| Occupation | Painter |
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| Children | 2, includingSamuel |
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Lady Sarah Frances Elizabeth Chatto (néeArmstrong-Jones; born 1 May 1964) is a member of theBritish royal family. She is the only daughter ofPrincess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, andAntony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon. She and her brother,David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon, are the only maternal first cousins ofKing Charles III. At her birth, she was 7th inline to the British throne; as of 2025, she is 29th. Though she does not undertake public duties, she frequently attends events and ceremonies with the wider royal family.
Lady Sarah Frances Elizabeth Armstrong-Jones was born on 1 May 1964[1] atKensington Palace in London. She is the second child and only daughter ofPrincess Margaret andAntony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon. She was baptised in the private chapel atBuckingham Palace on 13 July 1964.
Sarah is a godmother toPrince Harry, Duke of Sussex,[2] Lady Rose Gilman, andLady Louise Windsor.[3] She also has half-siblings on her father's side: Polly Fry (born 1960),[4] Lady Frances Armstrong-Jones (born 1979), and Jasper Cable-Alexander (born 1998).[5][6]
Sarah and her brother,David, then Viscount Linley, grew up in the nursery of Kensington Palace, Apartment 10.[7][a] They were raised with a nanny called Verona Sumner, although their parents, especially their father, were comparatively hands-on (for the time), with their father teaching them to build things and be creative.[7]
Their parents' marriage was fractious; the couple formally separated when Sarah was 12 and divorced when she was 14. She and her brother spent weekends, depending on with which parent, at eitherNymans orRoyal Lodge.[7] Holidays were given to the royal estates atSandringham andBalmoral, where Sarah did landscape painting.[7]
Sarah was a bridesmaid atthe wedding of her cousinCharles, Prince of Wales, andLady Diana Spencer. She accompanied her mother and brother on an official visit to China and Hong Kong in May 1987.[7]
She attendedBedales School, which she left with a singleA level in Art.[7] She enrolled at theCamberwell School of Art.[8] She also studied art at the Royal Academy Schools.[8] She then spent two years inIndia with her father, where he was employed to photograph the production ofA Passage to India.[7] The film's producer, her relativeJohn Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne (son-in-law ofLouis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma), gave her a job as an intern assisting the wardrobe department and studying wood gilding under her father's cousin Thomas Messel.[7] Returning to England, she enrolled in a two-year course in textile and fabric design at Middlesex Polytechnic (later renamed asMiddlesex University).[9]
Chatto has been exhibiting her work, always under the name Sarah Armstrong-Jones, atThe Redfern Gallery since 1995.[10] Her work has won awards: theWinsor & Newton Prize in 1988 and the Creswick Landscape Prize in 1990.[10]
In 2004, she became vice president ofthe Royal Ballet, of which her mother had been president.[7][11] She was named president in 2024.[12]
Chatto does not undertake public duties and is not considered a "working royal". However, it has been reported that she was close to her auntQueen Elizabeth II, being the queen's niece. Chatto is frequently seen attending public events such as jubilees and funerals, as well as semi-private royal family events, such as the Sandringham Christmas service, with her sons.[13]
Sarah metDaniel Chatto during her years in India with her father in the 1980s. Chatto was working on another British film,Heat and Dust.[14] He is from a theatrical family, the son of actorTom Chatto (1920–1982) and thetheatrical agent Ros Chatto (born Rosalind Joan Thompson; died 2012).[15] He proposed to her with a "vintage cluster ring."[16]
The couple married on 14 July 1994;[1] the ReverendChad Varah, founder ofthe Samaritans, officiated at the wedding, held atSt Stephen's, Walbrook in theCity of London. The bride's wedding gown was designed byJasper Conran.[14] Her bridesmaids were half-sisterLady Frances,Zara Phillips (daughter of her first cousinPrincess Anne), and Tara Noble-Singh, a family friend.[14]
The couple have two sons:[17]
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