By Folayemi Oladimeji
Lady Sarah Chatto opted for a sentimental piece of jewellery when attending the Queen’s funeral at Westminster Abbey yesterday.
Sarah Armstrong-Jones was born on 1 May 1964 at Kensington Palace in London. She is the second child and only daughter of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon. She was christened in the private chapel at Buckingham Palace on 13 July 1964.
The Queen’s beloved niece, dressed in an all-black ensemble, wore the Snowdon Floral Brooches, which are thought to have been a gift from her mother Princess Margaret.
Margaret, Her Majesty’s younger sister, was given the brooches by her ex-husband Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, to mark their wedding in 1960.
In recent decades, the late Princess’ only daughter Sarah Chatto has worn them for key occasions – including her own wedding to husband Daniel Chatto in 1994, when she wore them as a tiara, and to her mother’s funeral in February 2002.
Sarah Chatto, who enjoyed a warm relationship with her aunt throughout her life, and remained close to Her Majesty and Prince Philip following her mother’s death in 2002, also sported the jewels at the celebrations for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh’s 50th wedding anniversary in 1997.
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Princess Margaret’s daughter was visibly emotional as she attended the final tribute to the Queen’s life, wearing a black dress coat and hat.
Sarah Chatto was accompanied by her husband and her sons, including Arthur Chatto, 23, who is training to be an officer in the Royal Marines, and Samuel, 26.
Last week an emotional Sarah Chatto attended the service at Westminster Hall following the Queen’s procession, once again dressed in all-black.
Sarah, who is married to Daniel Chatto, was once described by a royal insider as sharing a ‘sense of loyalty, fun, duty and the ridiculous’ with the Queen.
The Queen has been described as a ‘surrogate mother’ to the siblings and was particularly close to Lady Sarah, who is understood to remind Her Majesty of her late sister.
A tearful King Charles III and his grief-stricken family surrounded the Queen’s coffin at her state funeral in a moving and majestic farewell to the late monarch in an extraordinary service followed by a national two-minute silence and the Last Post.