Emma Soames
The Hon. Emma Soames (born 9 September 1949) is a British editor. She is the granddaughter of Winston Churchill via her mother, Mary, Baroness Soames, and the one-time girlfriend of Martin Amis.
Emma Soames | |
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| Born | Emma Mary Soames 9 September 1949 United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Editor |
| Parent(s) | Christopher Soames Mary Churchill |
| Relatives | Winston Churchill (maternal grandfather) |
Education
Soames was educated at three independent schools: at Laverock School in Oxted in Surrey, followed by Hamilton House School in Kent (both in South East England), followed by Queen's College (from 1965–66) in Harley Street in Central London. She then studied in Paris at the Sorbonne and the Ecoles de Sciences Politiques.
Life and career
Editor of Literary Review, Tatler, and ES Magazine, Soames was a long-serving editor of the Telegraph magazine, then editor of Saga Magazine. Her brother is Sir Nicholas Soames who was a Conservative minister of defence under Sir John Major.
In 2016 she appeared on a BBC Four show on the subject of Winston Churchill and his paintings.
External links
- Interview with Lynn Barber, The Observer, 1 December 2002
- Entry in The Peerage
- The day a nation buried WW2 leader Winston Churchill: BBC video of Emma Soames' recollections, 30 January 2014
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| Preceded by Mark Boxer |
Editor of Tatler 1988–1990 |
Succeeded by Jane Procter |