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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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:
- Alexander Hugh George Cholmondeley, Earl of Rocksavage (born 12 October 2009)[11]
- Lord Oliver Timothy George Cholmondeley (born 12 October 2009)
- Lady Iris Marina Aline Cholmondeley (born March 2016)[12]
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
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- 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.
- Burke's Landed Gentry, 18th edition, ed. Peter Townend, 1965, vol. 1, p. 381.
- Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 2003, vol. 1, pp. 380, 716, vol. 3, p. 3075.
- 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.
- Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 2003, vol. 3, p. 3075.
- 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.
- Web site: Lady Rose Hanbury: Who is the Marchioness of Cholmondeley? . . 15 March 2024.
- 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.
- Web site: Hallemann . Caroline . 5 March 2022 . Who Is Rose Hanbury, the Marchioness of Cholmondeley? . 23 December 2022 . Town & Country . en-us.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Web site: A new photograph of The King and The Queen Consort . The Royal Family . 4 April 2023 . 5 April 2023.