Lady Sarah Frances Elizabeth Chatto (née Armstrong-Jones; born 1 May 1964) is the only daughter of

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and

Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, (7 March 1930 – 13 January 2017), was a British photographer and filmmaker. He is best known for his portraits of world notables, many of them published in '' Vogue'', '' Vanity F ...

. She and her brother,

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, are the only maternal first cousins of

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. She is the youngest grandchild of

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and

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. At her birth, she was seventh in line of

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; as of September 2022, she is 27th.

Early life and education

Sarah Armstrong-Jones was born on 1 May 1964 at

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in London. She is the second child and only daughter of

and

. She was christened in the private chapel at

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on 13 July 1964. Lady Sarah is a godmother to

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, Lady Rose Gilman, and Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor. She also has half-siblings on her father's side: Polly Fry (born 1960),Bloxham, Andy (31 May 2008)
"Lord Snowdon fathered a secret love child just months before marrying Princess Margaret"
''

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''. Retrieved 28 June 2008. Lady Frances Armstrong-Jones (born 1979), and Jasper Cable-Alexander (born 1998). Lady Sarah and her brother,

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, then Viscount Linley, grew up in the nursery of Kensington Palace, Apartment 10. 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. 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 either

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or Royal Lodge. Holidays were given to the royal estates at Sandringham and Balmoral, where Lady Sarah did a lot of landscape painting. Lady Sarah was a bridesmaid at the wedding of her cousin

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, and Lady Diana Spencer. She accompanied her mother and brother on an official visit to China and Hong Kong in May 1987. She attended

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, which she left with a single

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in Art. She enrolled at the

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. She also studied art at the Royal Academy Schools. She then spent two years in

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with her father, where he was employed to photograph the production of ''A Passage to India''. The film's producer, her relative

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(son-in-law of

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), gave her a job as an intern assisting the wardrobe department and studying wood gilding under her father's cousin Thomas Messel. Returning to England, she enrolled in a two-year course in textile and fabric design at Middlesex Polytechnic (later renamed as

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Professional life

Chatto has been exhibiting her work, always under the name Sarah Armstrong-Jones, at The Redfern Gallery since 1995. Her work has won awards: the

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Prize in 1988 and the Creswick Landscape Prize in 1990. In 2004, she became vice president of the Royal Ballet, of which her mother had been president.

Marriage and children

Lady Sarah met

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during her years in India with her father in the 1980s. Chatto was working on another British film, ''Heat and Dust''. He is from a theatrical family, the son of actor

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(1920–1982) and the

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Ros Chatto (born Rosalind Joan Thompson; died 2012). He proposed to her with a "vintage cluster ring." The couple married on 14 July 1994; the Reverend Chad Varah, founder of the Samaritans, officiated at the wedding, held at

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in the

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. The bride's wedding gown was designed by

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. Her bridesmaids were all teenagers: her half-sister Lady Frances,

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(daughter of her first cousin

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), and Tara Noble-Singh, a family friend. The couple have two sons: *Samuel David Benedict Chatto (born 28 July 1996), 28th in the line of succession . He studied at Eton, read history of art at the

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, and works as a sculptor, based in West Sussex. He also completed his yoga teacher training in India. *Arthur Robert Nathaniel Chatto (born 5 February 1999), 29th in the line of succession, and a former

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to Queen Elizabeth II, his great-aunt, from 2009 to 2015. He initially attended

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before going to Eton College. He then read geography at the University of Edinburgh, and at the same time worked as a personal trainer. As of June 2022, he is serving with the Royal Marines.The Queen's Platinum Jubilee: A Service of Thanksgiving
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