Serena Armstrong-Jones, Countess of Snowdon

She was born The Honourable Serena Alleyne Stanhope[1] in Limerick, Ireland, the daughter of the then Viscount Petersham and his wife Virginia Freeman-Jackson, a socialite.Through her father she is a descendant of Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton, an illegitimate son of King Charles II of England.[2] She spent most of her childhood between Chelsea (with her father and his girlfriend, later wife, Anita Howard, Countess of Suffolk) and Monaco (with her mother).They had met when her father commissioned Linley to design a walnut dining table for his Chelsea house.[3] There were 650 guests in attendance at the wedding, including Elton John, Jerry Hall, the Aga Khan, and Constantine II of Greece.
Coat of arms of David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon & Serena Armstrong-Jones, Countess of Snowdon
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