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{{Short description|Member of the British royal family (b. 1964)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}
{{EngvarB|date=January 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Lady Sarah Chatto
| title              = 
| image              = 
| caption            = 
| birth_name         = Sarah Frances Elizabeth Armstrong-Jones
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|df=y|1964|05|01}}
| birth_place        = [[Kensington Palace]], London, England
| family             = {{plain list|
* [[Earl of Snowdon|Armstrong-Jones family]]
* [[House of Windsor]]
}}
| spouse             = {{marriage|[[Daniel Chatto]]|14 July 1994}}
| children           = 2, including [[Samuel Chatto|Samuel]]
| father             = [[Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon]]
| mother             = [[Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom]]
| education          = {{plain list|
* [[Bedales School]]
* [[Camberwell School of Art]]
* [[Middlesex University|Middlesex Polytechnic]]
}}
| occupation         = Painter
| relatives          = 
}}

'''Lady Sarah Frances Elizabeth Chatto''' (''née'' '''Armstrong-Jones'''; born 1 May 1964) is a member of the [[British royal family]]. She is the only daughter of [[Princess Margaret|Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon]], and [[Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon]]. She and her brother, [[David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon]], are the only maternal first cousins of [[King Charles III]]. At her birth, she was 7th in [[line to the British throne]]; as of 2025, she is 29th. Though she does not undertake public duties, she frequently attends events and ceremonies with the wider royal family.

==Early life and education==
Lady Sarah Frances Elizabeth Armstrong-Jones was born on 1 May 1964<ref name="Thompson2016">{{cite book|author=Wayne C. Thompson|title=Western Europe 2016–2017|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VFMEDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA30|date=20 July 2016|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-1-4758-2905-1|pages=30–}}</ref> at [[Kensington Palace]] in London. She is the second child and only daughter of [[Princess Margaret]] and [[Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon]]. She was baptised in the private chapel at [[Buckingham Palace]] on 13 July 1964.

Sarah is a godmother to [[Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex]],<ref>{{cite web|last1=Smith|first1=Terry|last2=Thorpe-Tracey|first2=Rosemary|title=A Windsor War|url=http://people.com/archive/cover-story-a-windsor-war-vol-23-no-2/|website=People|access-date=15 November 2017}}</ref> Lady Rose Gilman, and [[Lady Louise Windsor]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.royal.uk/announcement-christening-lady-louise-windsor |title=Announcement of the christening of Lady Louise Windsor |publisher=royal.uk |access-date=8 April 2004 |date=7 April 2004}}</ref> She also has half-siblings on her father's side: Polly Fry (born 1960),<ref name="Bloxham">Bloxham, Andy (31 May 2008). [https://web.archive.org/web/20080603060545/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/theroyalfamily/2056112/Lord-Snowdon-fathered-a-secret-love-child-just-months-before-marrying-Princess-Margaret.html "Lord Snowdon fathered a secret love child just months before marrying Princess Margaret"]. ''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]''. Retrieved 28 June 2008.</ref> Lady Frances Armstrong-Jones (born 1979), and Jasper Cable-Alexander (born 1998).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3592805/Still-playing-Peter-Pan.html |title=Still playing Peter Pan |date=16 April 2003 |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |author=Bearn, Emily}}</ref><ref>Owens, Mitchell (27 July 1999). [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/27/style/noticed-blood-tells-so-does-burke-s.html "Noticed: Blood Tells. So Does Burke's"]. ''[[The New York Times]]''. Retrieved 5 September 2017.</ref>

Sarah and her brother, [[David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon|David]], then Viscount Linley, grew up in the nursery of Kensington Palace, Apartment 10.<ref name="theoaronson" />{{efn|Their mother moved to 1A, after divorcing Snowdon, while Prince and Princess Michael of Kent took Apartment 10.}} They 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.<ref name="theoaronson" />

Their parents' marriage was fractious; the couple formally separated when Sarah was 12 and divorced when she was 14. She and her brother spent weekends, depending on with which parent, at either [[Nymans]] or [[Royal Lodge]].<ref name="theoaronson" /> Holidays were given to the royal estates at [[Sandringham House|Sandringham]] and [[Balmoral Castle|Balmoral]], where Sarah did landscape painting.<ref name="theoaronson" />

Sarah was a bridesmaid at [[wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer|the wedding]] of her cousin [[Charles, Prince of Wales]], and [[Lady Diana Spencer]]. She accompanied her mother and brother on an official visit to China and Hong Kong in May 1987.<ref name="theoaronson" />

She attended [[Bedales School]], which she left with a single [[A level]] in Art.<ref name="theoaronson">{{cite book|last1=Aronson|first1=Theo|title=Princess Margaret: A Biography|date=2013|publisher=Thistle Publishing}}</ref> She enrolled at the [[Camberwell School of Art]].<ref name="debretts">{{cite web|url=http://www.debretts.com/people/royal-family/biographies/lady-sarah-chatto.aspx|title=Lady Sarah Chatto biography – Debrett's|website=[[Debrett's]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100809210733/http://www.debretts.com/people/royal-family/biographies/lady-sarah-chatto.aspx|archive-date=9 August 2010}}</ref> She also studied art at the Royal Academy Schools.<ref name="debretts" /> She then spent two years in [[India]] with her father, where he was employed to photograph the production of [[A Passage to India (film)|''A Passage to India'']].<ref name="theoaronson" /> The film's producer, her relative [[John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne]] (son-in-law of [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma]]), gave her a job as an intern assisting the wardrobe department and studying wood gilding under her father's cousin Thomas Messel.<ref name="theoaronson" /> Returning to England, she enrolled in a two-year course in textile and fabric design at Middlesex Polytechnic (later renamed as [[Middlesex University]]).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/mother-s-pride-in-david-and-sarah-6330563.html |title=Mother's pride in David and Sarah |publisher=Evening Standard |date=12 April 2021 |access-date=20 September 2022}}</ref>

==Professional life==
Chatto has been exhibiting her work, always under the name Sarah Armstrong-Jones, at [[The Redfern Gallery]] since 1995.<ref name="officialbiogallery">{{cite web|title=Sarah Armstrong-Jones|url=https://www.redfern-gallery.com/artists/39-sarah-armstrong-jones/overview/|website=The Redfern Gallery|access-date=16 November 2017|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116015327/https://www.redfern-gallery.com/artists/39-sarah-armstrong-jones/overview/|archive-date=16 November 2017}}</ref> Her work has won awards: the [[Winsor & Newton]] Prize in 1988 and the Creswick Landscape Prize in 1990.<ref name="officialbiogallery" />

In 2004, she became vice president of [[the Royal Ballet]], of which her mother had been president.<ref name="theoaronson" /><ref name="brb">{{cite web |title=The Company |url=https://www.brb.org.uk/the-company |website=Birmingham Royal Ballet |access-date=18 September 2021}}</ref> She was named president in 2024.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.roh.org.uk/about/the-royal-ballet/staff|title=Staff|work=The Royal Ballet|access-date=20 May 2024}}</ref>

Chatto does not undertake public duties and is not considered a "working royal". However, it has been reported that she was close to her aunt [[Queen Elizabeth II]], being the queen's niece. Chatto is frequently seen attending public events such as jubilees and funerals, as well as semi-private royal family events, such as the Sandringham Christmas service, with her sons.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/20220919151601/lady-sarah-chatto-everything-you-should-know-queens-niece | title=Lady Sarah Chatto: Everything you need to know about the late Queen's niece | last=Best | first=Chloe | website=Hello | date=19 September 2022 | access-date=29 December 2022}}</ref>

==Marriage and children==
Sarah met [[Daniel Chatto]] during her years in India with her father in the 1980s. Chatto was working on another British film, [[Heat and Dust (film)|''Heat and Dust'']].<ref name="greenforpeople">{{cite web|last1=Green|first1=Michelle|title=An Artful Match|url=http://people.com/archive/an-artful-match-vol-42-no-5/|website=People|access-date=11 September 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116082024/https://people.com/archive/an-artful-match-vol-42-no-5/|archive-date=16 November 2017}}</ref> He is from a theatrical family, the son of actor [[Tom Chatto]] (1920–1982) and the [[talent agent|theatrical agent]] Ros Chatto (born Rosalind Joan Thompson; died 2012).<ref>{{cite news|last=Walker|first=Tim|title=The Queen's niece Lady Sarah Chatto mourns the death of agent to the stars|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=15 June 2012|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/9332109/The-Queens-niece-Lady-Sarah-Chatto-mourns-the-death-of-agent-to-the-stars.html}}</ref> He proposed to her with a "vintage cluster ring."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.harpersbazaar.com.au/celebrity/british-royal-engagement-rings-15117|title=A Thorough History Of British Royal Engagement Rings|publisher=Harper's Bazaar Australia|first=Mahalia|last=Chang|date=27 November 2017|access-date=31 May 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401002226/https://www.harpersbazaar.com.au/celebrity/british-royal-engagement-rings-15117|archive-date=1 April 2018}}</ref>

The couple married on 14 July 1994;<ref name="Thompson2016"/> the Reverend [[Chad Varah]], founder of [[the Samaritans]], officiated at the wedding, held at [[St Stephen's, Walbrook]] in the [[City of London]]. The bride's wedding gown was designed by [[Jasper Conran]].<ref name="greenforpeople" /> Her bridesmaids were half-sister [[Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon#Second marriage|Lady Frances]], [[Zara Phillips]] (daughter of her first cousin [[Princess Anne]]), and Tara Noble-Singh, a family friend.<ref name="greenforpeople" />

The couple have two sons:<ref name="Tatler">{{cite news |last1=Coke |first1=Hope |title=Introducing Samuel and Arthur Chatto: Princess Margaret's grandsons |url=https://www.tatler.com/article/who-are-samuel-and-arthur-chatto |access-date=6 July 2021 |work=Tatler |date=13 February 2020}}</ref>

*[[Samuel David Benedict Chatto]] (born 28 July 1996), 30th in the line of succession {{as of|2025|09|lc=y}}. He studied at [[Eton College|Eton]], and went on to study history of art at the [[University of Edinburgh]], and works as a sculptor, based in West Sussex.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Queen's niece Lady Sarah Chatto celebrates special day after wedding anniversary |url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/20210728118464/lady-sarah-chatto-celebrates-samuel-chatto-birthday/ |website=Hello Magazine |date=28 July 2021 |access-date=8 August 2021}}</ref> He also completed yoga teacher training in India.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a25799633/sam-chatto-princess-margaret-grandson-yoga-teacher-training-india/|title=Princess Margaret's Grandson Sam Chatto Completed His Yoga Teacher Training in India|work=Town & Country|first=Chloe|last=Foussianes|date=8 January 2019|accessdate=3 September 2022}}</ref>
*Arthur Robert Nathaniel Chatto (born 5 February 1999), 31st in the line of succession, and a former [[page of honour]] to Queen Elizabeth II, his great-aunt, from 2009 to 2015. He initially attended [[Westminster Cathedral Choir School]] before going to Eton College. He then studied geography at the University of Edinburgh, and at the same time worked as a personal trainer.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Coke |first1=Hope |title=Royal fans swoon over Princess Margaret's dashing Marine grandson at Jubilee service |url=https://www.tatler.com/article/arthur-chatto-joins-royal-marines |access-date= 15 September 2022|work=Tatler |date=8 June 2022}}</ref><ref name="Tatler"/> As of June 2022, he was serving with the Royal Marines.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017xjp The Queen's Platinum Jubilee: A Service of Thanksgiving]: 1:44:00</ref>
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==External links==
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* {{IMDb name|1027848|Sarah Armstrong-Jones}}

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{{S-hou||1 May|1964}}
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| before = [[Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones]]
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| title = [[Line of succession to the British throne]]|
| years = 29th in line
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{{S-aft
| after = [[Samuel Chatto]]
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{{S-bef
| before = [[Princess Michael of Kent]]
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{{S-ttl
| title = [[United Kingdom order of precedence|Ladies]]<br />''Lady Sarah Chatto''
}}
{{S-aft
| after = [[Princess Alexandra, The Hon. Lady Ogilvy]]
}}
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