Sabrina Guinness
Sabrina Guinness | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 January 1955 |
| Occupation | Television producer |
| Title | Lady Stoppard |
| Spouse | |
| Relatives | Julia Samuel (sister) Hugo Guinness (brother) |
| Family | Guinness |
Sabrina Jane Guinness, Lady Stoppard (born 9 January 1955) is a British-Irish television producer.
Background[edit]
Sabrina Guinness is the eldest child (of four daughters and a son) of James Edward Alexander Rundell Guinness CBE (1924–2006), of Coldpiece Farm, Hound Green, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, a Second World War veteran of the Royal Navy, and a banker with Guinness Mahon, the Guinness Peat Group, and the Provident Mutual Life Assurance Association (now Aviva), also Chairman of the Public Works Loan Board 1970–90, and Pauline Vivien (1926–2017),[1] daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Howard Vivien Mander, MC, of Congreve Manor, Penkridge, Staffordshire, a director of his family's business, Mander Brothers. Guinness is a member of the "banking line" of the Guinness family, founders of Guinness Mahon in 1836, which descends from Samuel Guinness (1727–1795), the brother of Arthur Guinness.[2]
Guinness has a twin sister, journalist Miranda; her other siblings are the artist and writer Hugo Guinness; Anita Guinness, wife of the late Hon. Amschel Rothschild; and philanthropist Julia Samuel, a psychotherapist and paediatric counsellor and co-founder of Child Bereavement UK,[3][4] who married the Hon. Michael Samuel, of the Hill Samuel banking family, and son of Peter Samuel, 4th Viscount Bearsted, Deputy Chairman of Shell Transport and Trading.[2][5]
Career[edit]
Sabrina Guinness founded the London-based charity Youth Cable Television (YCTV), which she established in 1995 with the help of Greg Dyke. The charity trains disadvantaged youth to work in television production.[6] She previously worked as PA for David Stirling, the founder of the Special Air Service (SAS).
Personal life[edit]
Guinness was once dubbed "the It Girl of her generation" for her high-profile romantic liaisons.[6] In 1979, she had a relationship with the then Prince Charles.[7]
In 2014 she married playwright Sir Tom Stoppard.[8] They live in Blandford, Dorset;[9][10] she also has a home in Notting Hill, west London.[10]
References[edit]
- ^ "GUINNESS – Deaths Announcements – Telegraph Announcements".
- ^ a b Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1697
- ^ Patrons – Child Bereavement UK : Child Bereavement UK
- ^ Heyman, Marshall (1 February 2012). "The Fashionable Collaborations of Coach". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
- ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 106th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1999, p. 219
- ^ a b Davies, Hugh (12 June 2000). ""Guinness 'It Girl' on arts prize shortlist"". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- ^ Wilson, Christopher (10 November 2013). "Prince Charles and his relationships". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- ^ "Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard marries brewery heiress Sabrina Guinness in Wimborne". Bournemouth Echo. 8 June 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ^ Murray, Douglas (21 December 2019). "'I aspire to write for posterity': An interview with Tom Stoppard". The Spectator. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- ^ a b Law, Katie (4 May 2016). "Tom Stoppard: I must say, marriage has made me nicer". Evening Standard. Retrieved 10 May 2020.