Rose Hanbury Explained

The Marchioness of Cholmondeley
Honorific Prefix:The Most Honourable
Birth Name:Sarah Rose Hanbury
Birth Date:15 March 1984
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Education:Stowe School
Alma Mater:Open University

Sarah Rose Cholmondeley, Marchioness of Cholmondeley (; née Hanbury; born 15 March 1984) is a British peeress, former model, and former political staffer. She is married to David Cholmondeley, 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley.

Early life

Sarah Rose Hanbury is the daughter of Timothy Hanbury, a website designer, and Emma Hanbury (née Longman), a fashion designer. Her elder sister Marina[1] is the third wife of Edward Lambton, 7th Earl of Durham.[2] The Hanbury family lived at Holfield Grange, Coggeshall, Essex.[3] [4] Her maternal grandmother was Lady Elizabeth Lambart (1924–2016), daughter of Field Marshal Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan; Lady Elizabeth was one of the bridesmaids at the 1947 wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten;[5] her paternal grandmother, Sara, was the daughter of racing driver Sir Henry Birkin, 3rd Baronet.[6]

Hanbury was educated at Stowe School and earned a degree from the Open University.[7]

Career

Hanbury worked as a fashion model, signing with agency Storm at the age of 23, and was briefly a researcher for Conservative politician Michael Gove.[8] [9]

Personal life

On 24 June 2009, Hanbury married David Cholmondeley, 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley, at Chelsea Town Hall, their engagement having been announced two days earlier.[10]

They have three children:

The family lives at Houghton Hall, Norfolk. The Marchioness is a patron of the charity East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH), along with the Princess of Wales.[13] Her son Lord Oliver was a page of honour at the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla on 6 May 2023 which was also attended by both the Marchioness and her husband.[14]

Honours

References

  1. Web site: Akkam . Alia . 8 December 2022 . Inside the Eclectic British Homes of 6 Notable Creatives . 16 December 2022 . Architectural Digest . en-US.
  2. Web site: dead . Ford . Coreena . 29 January 2011 . Low-key wedding as earl ties the knot for third time . . https://web.archive.org/web/20121205004739/http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2011/01/29/low-key-wedding-as-earl-ties-the-knot-for-third-time-61634-28075265/ . 5 December 2012 . 16 December 2022.
  3. Burke's Landed Gentry, 18th edition, ed. Peter Townend, 1965, vol. 1, p. 381.
  4. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 2003, vol. 1, pp. 380, 716, vol. 3, p. 3075.
  5. Web site: Perry . S. . 12 December 2016 . Queen Elizabeth Mourns the Death of Former Bridesmaid Lady Elizabeth Longman . live . . https://web.archive.org/web/20190322232208/https://people.com/royals/queen-elizabeth-mourns-the-death-of-former-bridesmaid-lady-elizabeth-longman/ . 22 March 2019 . 5 January 2023.
  6. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 2003, vol. 3, p. 3075.
  7. Web site: Who is the Marchioness of Cholmondeley? Prince William and Kate’s Norfolk neighbour who encouraged the princess’s festival visit . . 15 March 2024.
  8. Web site: Lady Rose Hanbury: Who is the Marchioness of Cholmondeley? . . 15 March 2024.
  9. Web site: 7 January 2020 . Who is Kate Middleton's friend Rose Hanbury, Marchioness of Cholmondeley? Everything you need to know . 23 December 2022 . HELLO! . en.
  10. Web site: Hallemann . Caroline . 5 March 2022 . Who Is Rose Hanbury, the Marchioness of Cholmondeley? . 23 December 2022 . Town & Country . en-us.
  11. Web site: Bonner . Mehera . 16 April 2019 . Meet the Woman at the Center of THOSE Prince William and Kate Middleton Rumors . 13 December 2022 . Cosmopolitan . en-US.
  12. Web site: 30 March 2016 . Daughter for the Marquess & Marchioness of Cholmondeley . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20160402010955/http://peeragenews.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/daughter-for-marquess-marchioness-of.html . 2 April 2016 . 2 April 2016 . Peerage News.
  13. Web site: Lady Rose, the Marchioness of Cholmondeley, becomes EACH Patron . dead . Cambridge Network . 29 May 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190128082711/https://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/lady-rose-marchioness-of-cholmondeley-each-patron/ . 28 January 2019.
  14. Web site: A new photograph of The King and The Queen Consort . The Royal Family . 4 April 2023 . 5 April 2023.