Lady Emma Herbert

Lady Emma Herbert (born 12 March 1969), married name Lady Emma Vickers, is a British circus trapeze artist, stuntwoman, and teacher of circus arts.

The daughter of Henry Herbert, 17th Earl of Pembroke, Herbert was brought up at Wilton House in Wiltshire and educated at St Mary's, Calne. The goddaughter of Andrew Parker Bowles, in July 1973 she was a bridesmaid at his marriage to Camilla Shand, who later became H.R.H. the Duchess of Cornwall.

Her mother Claire Murray Threipland later described her as "very avant garde" and "a bit of a ".The Sunday Times said in 2003 that she was "born with rebellion in her blood".

Her father, who died in 2003, was a film director and producer, whose work included the erotic movie Emily (1976), starring Koo Stark and partly filmed at the family home.

Her younger brother William Herbert is now Earl of Pembroke.

Herbert's parents did not fight her eccentric lifestyle. On leaving school, she went to New York, where she lived in a Lower East Side house. She later commented "It was straight from A-levels to crack dens, junkies, shootings. I saw lots of very ugly things which made me decide I didn’t want to do them myself."

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