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Lady Sarah McCorquodale
Born
Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia Spencer

(1955-03-19) 19 March 1955 (age 69)
NationalityBritish
EducationRiddlesworth Hall
West Heath
Known forOne of two older sisters of Diana, Princess of Wales
Spouse
Neil Edmund McCorquodale
​
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(m. 1980)​
Children3
Parent(s)John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer
Frances Shand Kydd
RelativesDiana, Princess of Wales (sister)

Lady Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia McCorquodale (née Spencer; born 19 March 1955)[1] was one of the two older sisters of Diana, Princess of Wales, the other being Jane Fellowes, Baroness Fellowes.

Early life

Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia Spencer was born with the honorific "The Honourable"'; she acquired the courtesy title "Lady" in 1975, when her grandfather died and her father became the 8th Earl Spencer. She suffered from the eating disorder anorexia nervosa in her early twenties.[2] She was educated firstly at Riddlesworth Hall School in Norfolk and secondly at West Heath boarding school near Sevenoaks in Kent. After passing O Level exams she left West Heath to work in London.

Family

Sarah married Neil Edmund McCorquodale (born 4 October 1951), son of Alastair McCorquodale and Rosemary Sybil Turnor, on 17 May 1980 in Northamptonshire, England. Neil is a 2nd cousin once removed of Lady Sarah's stepmother, Raine Spencer.

Neil and Lady Sarah McCorquodale have three children:[3]

  • Emily Jane McCorquodale (2 July 1983); she married James T. R. Hutt on 9 June 2012, They have two children:
    • Isabella Rosemary Hutt (18 June 2014)
    • Henry George Thomas Hutt (25 March 2016)
  • George Edmund McCorquodale (17 November 1984); he married Bianca Moore, daughter of Gavin Moore, on 6 August 2016.
  • Celia Rose McCorquodale (1989); she married George Woodhouse on 16 June 2018 at St Andrew and St Mary's Church, Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire, England. For her wedding, Celia wore the Spencer Tiara, which her aunt Diana had worn on her wedding day to Prince Charles.

Emily received radiation treatment for plasmacytoma in 2003.[4]

Lady Sarah was accompanied by her husband and their children to the funeral of Diana at Westminster Abbey on 6 September 1997.

Career

She and her family reside near Grantham, Lincolnshire where she served a one-year term as High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 2009.[5][6] She became a master of the Belvoir Hunt in May 2010.[6] Lady Sarah was also president of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, which raised £100 million for various charities.[7][8] The Fund unsuccessfully took legal action in 1998 against the Franklin Mint over the unlicensed use of Diana's image.[7] The Fund closed at the end of 2012.[9]

Relationships

Diana, Princess of Wales

In 1977, Sarah's relationship with Prince Charles led to the first meeting between Diana and her future husband.[10] She later commented on her sister's marriage saying: "I introduced them. I'm Cupid."[11] During the period in which she dated the prince, she allegedly met two reporters, James Whittaker and Nigel Nelson, at a restaurant and gave them an exclusive report on her royal connection.[12] She is said to have admitted to having been diagnosed with anorexia, having "thousands of boyfriends", a past problem involving alcohol, and that she had started keeping a scrapbook of all the press clippings about her royal romance that she intended to "show" future grandchildren. "Her head seemed to be turned by the publicity", the two reporters later said. She also declared that she would not marry Charles "if he were the dustman or the King of England".[12] When the article was released, she showed it to the prince, which made him furious[12] and he replied, "You've just done something incredibly stupid". The relationship dissolved soon after that. Some have stated the relationship between her and Diana was strained, because of her long resentment of the Prince marrying Diana and not her, though others (including Diana's biographer Andrew Morton) have said she was one of the few people Diana trusted. Later in Diana's life, she often accompanied Diana on official visits as one of her ladies-in-waiting.[13]

Upon the death of Diana on 31 August 1997, Sarah flew to Paris with her younger sister, Jane, and Prince Charles to accompany Diana's body back to England. She contributed to the readings at Diana's funeral. She was co-executor of Diana's will and was president of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund. Sarah also attended the wedding of her nephew Prince William to Catherine Middleton on 29 April 2011. It is said that William and Catherine are close to Lady Sarah, with whom they spent a weekend on the 16th anniversary of Diana's death.[14]

Other siblings

Sarah has shared a lifelong close relationship with her younger sister Jane. Author Anne Edwards, who wrote a best-selling biography of Diana, said Diana's two older sisters were extremely close and loyal to each other. Sarah gave her first child, Emily, the middle name of 'Jane' in a tribute to her younger sister. Her relationship with younger brother Earl Spencer has been volatile at the best of times. As the eldest and the youngest of the Spencer children, they have clashed frequently in adulthood and childhood. In recent years, possibly due to the death of their sister, the siblings appear to have settled previous differences.

Friends

In 2018, Sarah spoke publicly in support of George Grant, an employee of Belvoir Hunt who assaulted foxhunt monitors that she had known for 27 years. Grant along with his son and other men, nearly killed the hunt monitors who were affiliated with the League Against Cruel Sports. Sarah, who served as joint master of the Belvoir Hunt, claimed that Grant's actions were out of character. [15] [16]

Titles and styles

  • 1955–1975: The Honourable Sarah Spencer
  • 1975–1980: Lady Sarah Spencer
  • 1980–present: Lady Sarah McCorquodale

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ "Lady Sarah Spencer Mccorquodale". Ancientfaces.com. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  2. ^ "Life of luxury stripped sparse by tragedy". Scotsman. 4 June 2004. Retrieved 27 May 2013.
  3. ^ "Lady Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia Spencer". The Peerage. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  4. ^ "Diana's beloved niece Emily McCorquodale finds love after cancer scare". Telegraph. 23 November 2011. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  5. ^ "No. 59011". The London Gazette. 19 March 2009. p. 4924.
  6. ^ a b Walker, Tim (19 March 2010). "Lady Sarah McCorquodale, sister of Diana, Princess of Wales, becomes a master of the hunt". Daily Telegraph.
  7. ^ a b "Lady Sarah McCorquodale can look forward to having some free time". Daily Express. 14 October 2012. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  8. ^ "Was the £100m Diana Fund a disaster?". Daily Express. 21 July 2011. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  9. ^ Richard Alleyne (20 July 2011). "Princess Diana's memorial fund to wind up". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  10. ^ "Prince Charles and his relationships". The Telegraph. 10 November 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  11. ^ "Charles 'amazed' by Lady Di's yes". The Guardian. 25 February 1981. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  12. ^ a b c "I took Lady Sarah for lunch and spoiled her chances of marrying Prince Charles". The Mirror. 20 February 2011. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  13. ^ "Yvonne's Royalty Home Page: Diana, Princess of Wales' Ladies-in-Waiting". Uniserve. Retrieved 27 May 2013.
  14. ^ "Royals pay tribute to Diana in secret". The Daily Express. 3 September 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  15. ^ "Princess Diana's sister pleads with judge for hunt assault man to avoid jail". Leicester Live. 14 June 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  16. ^ "Belvoir Hunt attack: Princess Diana's sister vouches for attacker". BBC. 14 June 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  17. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Williamson 1981a.
  18. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Williamson 1981b.

Bibliography

  • Williamson, D. (1981a). "The Ancestry of Lady Diana Spencer". Genealogist's Magazine. 20 (6): 192–199. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Williamson, D. (1981b). "The Ancestry of Lady Diana Spencer". Genealogist's Magazine. 20 (8): 281–282. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Lady Sarah McCorquodale picture Lady Sarah McCorquodale leaving the high court at her sisters (Diana, Princess of Wales) inquest.
  • picture The Princess Royal and Lady Sarah McCorquodale during the prize giving ceremony at Burghley Horse Trials.

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