Sarah Frances Elizabeth Armstrong-Jones (May 1, 1964) is a member of the British royal family. She is the second child and only daughter of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, and the youngest grandchild of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. At her birth, she was seventh in line of succession to the British throne; as of September 2022, she is 27th.
Born at Kensington Palace in London, Sarah and her older brother, David, then Viscount Linley, 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 David spent weekends, depending on with which parent, at either Nymans or Royal Lodge. Holidays were given to the royal estates at Sandringham and Balmoral, where Lady Sarah did a lot of landscape painting.
She attended Bedales School, which she left with a single A level in Art. She enrolled at the Camberwell School of Art, and also studied art at the Royal Academy Schools. She then spent two years in India with her father, where he was employed to photograph the production of A Passage to India. Returning to England, Sarah enrolled in a two-year course in textile and fabric design at Middlesex Polytechnic (later renamed as Middlesex University).
Sarah has been exhibiting her work, always under the name Sarah Armstrong-Jones, at The Redfern Gallery since 1995. Her work has won awards: the Winsor & Newton Prize in 1988 and the Creswick Landscape Prize in 1990.
On July 14, 1994, she married Daniel Chatto, and the couple had two sons: Samuel (1996) and Arthur (1999).
In 2004, she became vice president of the Royal Ballet, of which her mother had been president, and though she doesn’t undertake public duties, she frequently attends events and ceremonies with the wider royal family.
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