Lady Emily Rose Compton (born 1980) is a British fashion stylist, magazine editor, jewellery designer, and model.

Biography

Compton was born in 1980 to

Spencer Compton, 7th Marquess of Northampton Spencer "Spenny" Douglas David Compton, 7th Marquess of Northampton (born 2 April 1946) is a British peer. Family Compton is the son of the Most Hon. William Compton, 6th Marquess of Northampton and Virginia Lucie Compton, ''née'' Heaton. The ...

and his third wife, Rosemary Ashley Morritt Hancock. She is the third child and second daughter of the Lord Northampton. She grew up at

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, her family's ancestral home in

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. She attended

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. After finishing school, she spent a gap year in

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before working at

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's London gallery. While working in London, she was discovered by the photographer Koto Bolofo. He photographed her for ''

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'' at her family's castle. She was signed with Isis Management and studied under photographer

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. She has appeared in spreads in ''

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'', '' GQ'', and ''

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''. She worked as a social editor, and later as a contributing editor, at ''

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''. In 2019 she collaborated with Pragnell and Olivia Buckingham to create a jewellery line called Rockchic. In 2002, she was in a relationship with singer

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fame. In 2012, Compton married British financier Edward Horner.

References

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