Xenia Sackville, Lady Buckhurst

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Countess Xenia Tolstoy
Lady Buckhurst
BornXenia Nikolaievna Tolstoy-Miloslavsky
1980
Yeovil, South Somerset, England
Noble familyTolstoy
Spouse(s)
IssueWilliam Sackville
Victoria Sackville
FatherCount Nikolai Tolstoy
MotherGeorgina Brown
Occupationjewellery designer

Xenia Sackville, Lady Buckhurst (born Countess Xenia Nikolaievna Tolstoy-Miloslavsky in 1980) is a British jewellery designer.

Biography

Lady Buckurst was born Countess Xenia Nikolaievna Tolstoy-Miloslavsky in 1980 in Yeovil to Count Nikolai Tolstoy and Georgia Brown.[1][2] Her father is a former prospective parliamentary candidate for the UK Independence Party, Vice President of the Royal Stuart Society, and is the nominal head of the Tolstoy family.[3] She was educated at Headington School, an all-girls boarding school in Headington, and at Downe House School, an all-girl's boarding school in Cold Ash.[1] After graduating, she spent a gap year working with children in Kenya. She then earned a degree from King's College, London.[1]

In September 2009, Lady Buckhurst became engaged to William Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, the heir of William Sackville, 11th Earl De La Warr and a godson of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.[4] They married on 5 February 2010 in a Russian Orthodox ceremony at the Dormition Cathedral in London.[5] She gave birth to their first child, William Lionel Robert Sackville, on 24 January 2014.[6][7] She gave birth to a second child, Victoria Elizabeth Anne Sackville, on 6 June 2016.[8]

She works as a jewllery designer.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Burke's Peerage". burkespeerage.com.
  2. ^ "De La Warr, Earl (GB, 1761)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk.
  3. ^ "This is Odinism". Lulu.com. October 17, 2016 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ a b "Jeweller Xenia Tolstoy receives her gem from Lord Buckhurst". The Telegraph.
  5. ^ "Lord Buckhurst and Countess Xenia Tolstoy-Miloslavsky - Marriages Announcements - Telegraph Announcements". announcements.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
  6. ^ "SACKVILLE - Births Announcements - Telegraph Announcements". announcements.telegraph.co.uk.
  7. ^ "N.M. Gwynne's diary: Old names worth dropping". The Spectator. 2015-10-15. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
  8. ^ "Buckhurst - Births Announcements - Telegraph Announcements". announcements.telegraph.co.uk.