Sabrina Guinness


Sabrina Guinness, Lady Stoppard is an Irish television producer.

Background

Sabrina Guinness is one of four daughters of Pauline Vivien and James Edward Alexander Rundell Guinness CBE, a Second World War veteran of the Royal Navy, who was a banker with Guinness Mahon, the Guinness Peat Group and the Provident Mutual Life Assurance Association, and Chairman of the Public Works Loan Board 1970–90. She is a member of the "banking line" of the Guinness family, descended from Samuel Guinness, the brother of Arthur Guinness. This line of the Guinness family founded Guinness Mahon in 1836. Among Guinness's siblings are the artist and writer Hugo Guinness; Anita Guinness, wife of the late Hon. Amschel Rothschild; and philanthropist Julia Samuel, a psychotherapist and paediatric counsellor and co-founder of Child Bereavement UK, who married the Honourable Michael Samuel, of the Hill Samuel banking family.

Career

Sabrina Guinness founded the London-based charity Youth Cable Television, which she established in 1995 with the help of Greg Dyke. The charity trains disadvantaged youth to work in television production. She previously worked as PA for David Stirling, the founder of the Special Air Service.

Personal life

She was once dubbed "the It Girl of her generation" for her high-profile romantic liaisons. In 1979, she had a relationship with Prince Charles.
In 2014 she married playwright Sir Tom Stoppard. They live in Blandford, Dorset; she also has a "Pied-à-terre" in Notting Hill.