British jewellery designer (born 1980)
Lady Buckhurst | |
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Born | Xenia Nikolaievna Tolstoy-Miloslavsky 1980 (age 43–44) Yeovil, South Somerset, England |
Noble family | Tolstoy |
Spouse(s) |
William Sackville, Lord Buckhurst
(m. 2010) |
Issue | William Sackville Victoria Sackville |
Father | Count Nikolai Tolstoy |
Mother | Georgina Brown |
Occupation | Jewellery designer |
Xenia Sackville, Lady Buckhurst (née Countess Xenia Nikolaievna Tolstoy-Miloslavsky; born 1980) is a British jewellery designer.
Biography
Lady Buckhurst was born Countess Xenia Nikolaievna Tolstoy-Miloslavsky in 1980 in Yeovil to Count Nikolai Tolstoy and Georgia Brown. Her father is a former prospective parliamentary candidate for the UK Independence Party, Vice President of the Royal Stuart Society, and nominal head of the Tolstoy family. She was educated at Headington School, an all-girls boarding school in Headington, and at Downe House School, an all-girls boarding school in Cold Ash. After graduating, she spent a gap year working with children in Kenya. She then earned a degree from King's College, London.
In September 2009, Lady Buckhurst became engaged to William Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, the heir of William Sackville, 11th Earl De La Warr and a godson of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. They married on 5 February 2010 in a Russian Orthodox ceremony at the Dormition Cathedral in London. She gave birth to their first child, William Lionel Robert Sackville, on 24 January 2014. She gave birth to a second child, Victoria Elizabeth Anne Sackville, on 6 June 2016.
She works as a jewellery designer.
References
- ^ "Burke's Peerage". burkespeerage.com.
- "De La Warr, Earl (GB, 1761)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk.
- This is Odinism. Lulu.com. 17 October 2016. ISBN 9781329908536 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Jeweller Xenia Tolstoy receives her gem from Lord Buckhurst". The Telegraph.
- "Lord Buckhurst and Countess Xenia Tolstoy-Miloslavsky - Marriages Announcements - Telegraph Announcements". announcements.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
- "SACKVILLE - Births Announcements - Telegraph Announcements". announcements.telegraph.co.uk.
- "N.M. Gwynne's diary: Old names worth dropping". The Spectator. 15 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
- "Buckhurst - Births Announcements - Telegraph Announcements". announcements.telegraph.co.uk.
- Living people
- 1980 births
- Alumni of King's College London
- British courtesy baronesses and ladies of Parliament
- British jewellery designers
- English Eastern Orthodox Christians
- English people of Russian descent
- English socialites
- Countesses of the Russian Empire
- Members of the Russian Orthodox Church
- People educated at Downe House School
- People educated at Headington School
- Sackville family
- Tolstoy family
- British women jewellers