Lady Sarah McCorquodale | |
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Born |
The Honourable Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia Spencer 19 March 1955 |
Residence | Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire |
Nationality | British |
Education | Riddlesworth Hall West Heath |
Known for | Older sister of Diana, Princess of Wales |
Title | The Lady Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia Spencer |
Spouse(s) | Neil Edmund McCorquodale (m. 1980) |
Children | Emily Jane McCorquodale George Edmund McCorquodale Celia Rose McCorquodale |
Parent(s) |
John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer Frances Shand Kydd |
Relatives |
Diana, Princess of Wales (sister) Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (nephew) Prince Harry of Wales (nephew) |
Lady Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia McCorquodale (née Spencer; born 19 March 1955) is the eldest daughter of John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, and the Hon. Frances Shand Kydd. She is the sister of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Sarah was born The Honourable Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia Spencer; she acquired the courtesy title Lady Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia Spencer 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. 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.
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 McCorquodale is a 2nd cousin once removed of Lady Sarah's stepmother, Raine Spencer.
Neil and Lady Sarah McCorquodale have three children;
Emily received radiation treatment for plasmacytoma in 2003. She married James Hutt on 9 June 2012 and they have two children: Isabella Rosemary Hutt (born 18 June 2014) and Henry George Thomas Hutt (born 25 March 2016).
Lady Sarah was accompanied by her husband and their children to the service of thanksgiving for the life of Diana at Westminster Abbey on 6 September 1997. Sarah was a girlfriend of Charles, Prince of Wales, prior to his marriage to her younger sister Diana. She later commented on her sister's marriage saying: "I introduced them. I'm Cupid."