Emma Soames
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.
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.
Life and career
Soames was a long-serving editor of the Telegraph magazine. She is now the editor-at-large of Saga magazine. Her brother is Nicholas Soames who was a Conservative minister of defence under Sir John Major.
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 the Tatler 1988-1990 |
Succeeded by Jane Procter |
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