Mother's pride in David and Sarah

12 April 2012

Princess Margaret's great legacy are her children David and Sarah.

Both Viscount Linley and Lady Sarah Chatto developed strong artistic interests.

Lord Linley became an accomplished cabinet maker, running his own up-market furniture-making business, and Lady Sarah found her niche in painting.

Margaret and Lord Snowdon, despite their marital differences, shared a common interest in the well-being and future of their children.

David, born on November 3, 1961, at Clarence House in London, was educated at Bedales, the progressive, co-educational school in Hampshire, at which there was a strong emphasis on creativity.

He won a place at the John Makepeace School for Craftsmen in Wood at Beaminster, Dorset.

Following his father, he also enjoyed some success in photography, winning the Vogue-Sotheby's Cecil Beaton Award for portrait photography in 1983.

Lady Sarah, born on May 1, 1964, at Kensington Palace, was to follow her brother to Bedales and later went to Camberwell School of Art.

She worked briefly in the film business and studied wood gilding before enrolling on a two-year course in textile and fabric design at Middlesex Polytechnic. In 1988, she entered the Royal Academy Art School.

Princess Margaret always made the point that the children were not members of the Royal Family.

Although they were often to be seen at such family occasions as birthdays, weddings and christenings, they carry out no official engagements.

An exception to the rule of no public engagements came when both children accompanied their mother on an official visit to China and Hong Kong in May 1987.

In 1993, David married the Hon Serena Stanhope, daughter of wealthy landowner Viscount Petersham.

The following year, Sarah married her long-standing boyfriend, fellow artist, David Chatto.

Both couples made Princess Margaret a grandmother.

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