She’s one of the more under-the-radar Royal Family members and doesn’t undertake royal duties, so it is unsurprising that Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones (now Lady Sarah Chatto)’s 1994 nuptials to her artist and actor beau Daniel Chatto were on a more low-key scale than the of some of her peers. The only daughter of Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon met her husband-to-be in 1983, while both were working on the set of the film , yet they would not start dating until three years later. It was in 1986 that they first started to be photographed at gallery openings and other art world events together, announcing their engagement in 1994.
They were married on 14 July 1994 at St Stephen’s Walbrook in London, a beautiful church designed by the renowned architect Sir Christopher Wren, which held just 200 guests. It was the first time that the venue had been chosen for a royal wedding, with Lady Sarah’s cousins opting for the grander, larger-scale locations of St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. Indeed, her brother, the then Viscount Linley, had only the previous year wed the Hon.
Serena Stanhope at Westminster Abbey. The wedding came at a tricky time for the Royal Family, just two years after the late Queen’s ‘annus horribilis’, when Prince Charles (now King Charles III) and Prince Andrew both separated from their wives, Diana, Princess of Wales and Sarah, Duchess of York, respectively. Indeed, the event made headlines for being the first event attended by Charles.