Emma Soames

Emma Soames is a British magazine editor and a granddaughter of former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.

Family life

Her father was Lord Christopher Soames son of Harold Soames, whose sister was Olave Baden-Powell, World Chief Guide.
Her mother was Mary the daughter of Sir Winston Churchill.
She is a sister of Lord Nicholas Soames who was a Conservative Minister of Defence under Sir John Major.
She was the one-time girlfriend of Martin Amis.

Education

Soames was educated at three independent schools: at Laverock School in Oxted in Surrey, followed by Hamilton House School in Kent, followed by Queen's College in Harley Street in Central London. She then studied in Paris at the Sorbonne and at Sciences Po.

Life and career

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.