Emma Soames | |
|---|---|
| Born | Emma Mary Soames 9 September 1949 United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Editor |
| Parent(s) | Christopher Soames Mary Churchill |
| Relatives | Winston Churchill (maternal grandfather) Nicholas Soames (brother) Rupert Soames (brother) |
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. Her brother is Nicholas Soames, Baron Soames of Fletching who was a Conservative minister of defence under Sir John Major.
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. She then studied in Paris at the Sorbonne and at Sciences Po.
Editor of Literary Review , Tatler , and ES Magazine , Soames was a long-serving editor of the Telegraph magazine, then editor of Saga Magazine .
In 2016 she appeared on a BBC Four show on the subject of Winston Churchill and his paintings.
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