Everything about Lady Sarah Mccorquodale totally explained
The Lady Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia McCorquodale (born
19 March,
1955) is the eldest daughter of
John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer and the
Honourable Frances Burke Roche, and the older sister of the late
Diana, Princess of Wales.
Early life
Lady Sarah was born
The Honourable Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia Spencer; she acquired the
courtesy title The 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
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). She was educated firstly at Riddlesworth Hall in
Norfolk and secondly at
West Heath boarding school near
Sevenoaks in
Kent. She left West Heath after passing
O Level exams to work in London.
Family
She married Neil Edmund McCorquodale (born 1951), son of
Alastair McCorquodale and Rosemary Sybil Turnor, on 17 May 1980 in
Northamptonshire,
England. Neil McCorquodale is a nephew of Lady Sarah's stepmother,
Raine de Chambrun.
Neil McCorquodale and Lady Sarah McCorquodale have three children
- Emily Jane McCorquodale (born 2 July 1983)
- George Edmund McCorquodale (born 1984)
- Celia Rose McCorquodale (born 1989)
These children are first cousins of
Prince William and
Prince Harry on the maternal side.
She and her family reside in
Stoke Rochford,
Lincolnshire.
Prince Harry bears a striking resemblance to her, as does her son, George. Lady Sarah was accompanied by her husband and children to the Service of Thanksgiving for the Life of Diana on 31 August 2007.
Relationships
Diana, Princess of Wales
At twenty-two, in 1977, her relationship with Prince Charles led the first meeting between Diana and her future husband. 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. She is said to have admitted to having been diagnosed with anorexia, having "thousands of boyfriends", a past problem involving alcohol, and that she'd 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. When the article was released, she showed it to the prince 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.
Upon Diana's death in 1997, Sarah, along with her younger sister
Jane and
Prince Charles flew to Paris to accompany Diana's body back to England. She, like her brother and sister, contributed to the readings at Diana's funeral.
She was co-executor of her sister's will and is President of the
Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund.
Other siblings
Sarah has shared a lifelong close relationship with her younger sister Jane. Author
Anne Edwards, who wrote a best selling biography on the life of Diana, said the two elder Spencer sisters were extremely close and loyal to each other.
Sarah's relationship with brother
Charles has been volatile at the best of times. As the eldest and the youngest of the Spencer children, they've clashed frequently in adulthood and childhood. In recent years, possibly due to the death of their mother, the siblings appear to have settled previous differences.
Quotes
"I play second fiddle to no one!" when asked about taking up the role as informal Lady-in-Waiting to her sister.
Ancestry
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