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David Albert Charles Armstrong - Jones, Viscount Linley
Born: 3 November 1961
Christened: 19 December 1961
MARRIED:
8 October 1992 to Serena Alleyne Stanhope at St. Margaret's Church in Parliament Square
Born: 22 April 1957
Touted by some Palace sympathizers as the poster boy for a "new breed" of Windsors, David, Viscount Linley makes a
point of avoiding pomp. Only royal watchers use his title; he introduces himself as David Linley, and neighbors
describe him as natural. Not that he hasn't found time for fast cars and flashy women. Before settling down with Serena, David's attention
to attractive blondes and a proclivity for speeding earned him a reputation as a playboy.
When it came time to
marry, however, he chose a partner whose family was as rooted in tradition as his own. Raised quietly in Ireland with her
older brother, William, Serena is the granddaughter of the Earl of Harrington, who owns a 700 acre estate in County Limerick.
Her mother, Virginia Freeman Jackson, was a debutante; her father is heir to the earl and owner of vast chunks of Kensington.
David
and Serena met when her father commissioned him to design a walnut dining table for his Chelsea house. In July 1992,
she and Linley spent a weekend with her mother in Monte Carlo, David and Serena were snapped in a steamy embrace
at a beach club. The photo made the front pages of the London tabs. Serena's ex-boyfriend Alexander Slack sold a graphic account
of her sexy past to the Sunday tabloids. Slack's tales about lovemaking in the great outdoors, however, didn't seem to tarnish
Serena. By the following May, David and Serena were engaged.
They were married at St. Margaret's Church in Parliament Square. Serena wore a dress remiscent of her mother in law,
Princess Margaret and to honor her.
David and Serena's marriage is said to be happy and they have 2 children.
Lady Sarah Armstrong Jones
Born: 1 May
1964
Christened: 13 July 1964
MARRIED: 18 July 1993 at St. Stephen
Walbrook to David St. George Chatto (St George Sproule)
Born: 1 March 1970
The artful match of Lady Sarah Armstrong Jones, the youngest
child of Princess Margaret, and Daniel St George Chatto, was brought together by a simple love of the arts.
Sarah met Daniel in India during a stint as a wardrobe
assistant on the 1983 movie Heat and Dust. where Daniel's six-year acting career began with a small role. She was
at the time a student at Bedales, a progressive school in Hampshire where her artistic talent was quickly recognized. Before
finishing a six-year stint at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1991, she mounted a show in Knightsbridge, where her abstract landscapes
sold for as much as $3,000.
By then, Sarah and Damiel, a 1979 Oxford graduate, had been together for some time. Romance
blossomed in 1986, four years after their first meeting, and the two were often spotted going to the theater or gallery. By
1989, Daniel had given up acting for art, and had his own successful show at the Cadogan gallery in 1992. The two took
painting trips together and share a love of books and travel, and the general view among their crowd is that they have been
very good for each other.
The Queen, who had given Sarah official permission to wed,
was said to be "delighted" by the marriage, even though London has been buzzing with stories that Daniel was fathered by
an adulterous affair by Robin Fox, a theatrical agent who died in 1971. Fox's widow, Angela, told The News of the World
in 1988 that he had had an affair with Daniel's mother, Ros Chatto when she was his secretary in the 1950s and that Daniel
was her husband's illegitimate son. While Ros never denied the reports, Snowdon demanded a public retraction from Angela
Fox at the time.
Sarah and Daniel have a strong happy marriage and have
3 boys.
Born: 1 May
1964
Christened: 13 July 1964
MARRIED: 18 July 1993 at St. Stephen
Walbrook to David St. George Chatto (St George Sproule)
Born: 1 March 1970
Lady Helen Windsor
Born to the Duke and Duchess of Kent, Lady Helen Windsor was
no English Rose. She was famous for the wild oats she sewed.
She once stole her cousin, Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones's boyfriend, impressionist
artdealer Gerard Faggionato and date what seemed to be a string of men. Which is said to stem from going to all girls
boariding school and boy craziness.
Then Helen went to Gordonstoun, the Scottish school that made Prince
Charles miserable and insecure, but she love it. When Helen left and came to London she ended up working for Karsten
Schubert, the art dealer, in his gallery (which has since closed) and went a 'touch crazy'. It was endless parties and dates.
The press called her Melons, particularly she sunbathed topless. However, after realizing what she was seeing in the papers.
She began to take the Tradition, honour, duty and responsibility of being a Royal more seriously. She also credited by ended
up seemingly having an eye for young contemporary British artists. Karsten Schubert credited Helen with spotting Rachel Whiteread
and Gary Hume.
She started out behind the front desk looking pretty and bringing
a touch of glamour to the whole proceedings by being royal but ended up seemingly having an eye for young contemporary British
artists. She was credited with spotting Rachel Whiteread and Gary Hume.
Then, when she was 19 she met Tim Taylor, a young aspiring art dealer
who circulated in the same world she did. Nothing happened between them for a few years but then they got together and married
ten years ago. She gave up her job immediately to concentrate on being a wife, which she saw "as being a job," she has
said.
In 2005 Tim contracted Hodgkin's disease, cancer of the lymph nodes.
He found a lump on his neck. It was quickly diagnosed and he had treatment which meant he had to cut back on work. He had
a course of chemotherapy which they thought had worked but hadn't. Then they dosed him up with a stunning cocktail of drugs
and it is believed that Tim has been cured.
They work hard at their marriage and are said to be incredibly happy
with one another. They have 4 children, 2 boys and 2 girls.
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