Lady Sarah Chatto

1964 – · Generation XXXVIII · Painter

Lady Sarah Chatto is a painter and the only daughter of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, which makes her a niece of Queen Elizabeth II and a first cousin of King Charles III. She was born Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones at Kensington Palace in London on 1 May 1964.

She trained as an artist. According to the biography published by her gallery, she took a foundation course at Camberwell School of Art in 1982–1983, studied printed textiles at Middlesex Polytechnic in 1984–1985 and then spent six years at the Royal Academy Schools, from 1985 to 1991. There she won the Winsor & Newton Prize in 1988 and the Creswick Landscape Prize in 1990. She exhibits under the name Sarah Armstrong-Jones. The Redfern Gallery in London first showed her work in 1995 and has given her a series of solo exhibitions since, the latest of them in 2023. Her paintings have also hung in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in many years since 1994, and she won a purchase prize there in 1998.

On 14 July 1994 she married Daniel Chatto at St Stephen Walbrook in the City of London. They have two sons, Samuel, born in 1996, and Arthur, born in 1999.

Lady Sarah does not carry out official royal duties. Her main public role continues a connection of her mother’s. Princess Margaret was President of the Royal Ballet School from 1956 until her death in 2002. Lady Sarah became the school’s Vice-President in 2004 and in 2024 succeeded King Charles III as its President when he became Patron. She was named President of the Royal Ballet in the same year. As of 2024 she is also Vice-President of the Royal Drawing School and Patron of the Frederick Ashton Foundation.

Place in the family

• Lady Sarah Chatto is a niece of Queen Elizabeth II.
• Lady Sarah Chatto is the younger of 2 children of Antony Armstrong-Jones and Margaret Windsor recorded in this archive.

Line of descent: Owen Tudor → Edmund Tudor → King Henry VII → Margaret Tudor → King James V of Scotland → Mary Queen of Scots → King James I → Elizabeth Stuart → Sophia of Hanover → King George I → King George II → Frederick Prince of Wales → King George III → Edward Duke of Kent → Queen Victoria → King Edward VII → King George V → King George VI → Margaret Windsor → Lady Sarah Chatto.

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Parents

• Antony Armstrong-Jones (1930 – 2017)
• Margaret Windsor (1930 – 2002)

Siblings

• David Armstrong-Jones (1961 – )

Sources

1. Lady Sarah Chatto · Wikipedia
2. Sarah Armstrong-Jones: biography · The Redfern Gallery
3. Lady Sarah Chatto named President of The Royal Ballet School · The Royal Ballet School