Sabrina Guinness
{{short description|British-Irish television producer (born 1955)}}
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| name = Sabrina Guinness
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| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|9 January 1955}}
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| occupation = Television producer
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| title = Lady Stoppard
| spouse = {{marriage|Tom Stoppard|2014}}
| children =
| relatives = Julia Samuel (sister)
Hugo Guinness (brother)
| family = Guinness
}}
Sabrina Jane Guinness, Lady Stoppard (born 9 January 1955) is a British-Irish television producer.
Background
Sabrina Guinness is the eldest child (of four daughters and a son) of James Edward Alexander Rundell Guinness CBE (1924–2006), of Coldpiece Farm, Hound Green, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, a Second World War veteran of the Royal Navy, and a banker with Guinness Mahon, the Guinness Peat Group, and the Provident Mutual Life Assurance Association (now Aviva), also Chairman of the Public Works Loan Board 1970–90, and Pauline Vivien (1926–2017),{{Cite web|url=http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/211533/guinness|title = GUINNESS – Deaths Announcements – Telegraph Announcements}} daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Howard Vivien Mander, MC, of Congreve Manor, Penkridge, Staffordshire, a director of his family's business, Mander Brothers. Guinness is a member of the "banking line" of the Guinness family, founders of Guinness Mahon in 1836, which descends from Samuel Guinness (1727–1795), the brother of Arthur Guinness.Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1697
Guinness has a twin sister, journalist Miranda; her other 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,[http://childbereavementuk.org/about-us/our-people/patrons/ Patrons – Child Bereavement UK : Child Bereavement UK]{{cite news|last=Heyman |first=Marshall |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204652904577195303558230814 |title=The Fashionable Collaborations of Coach |work=Wall Street Journal |date = 1 February 2012|accessdate=3 February 2012}} who married the Hon. Michael Samuel, of the Hill Samuel banking family, and son of Peter Samuel, 4th Viscount Bearsted, Deputy Chairman of Shell Transport and Trading.Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 106th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1999, p. 219
Career
Sabrina Guinness founded the London-based charity Youth Cable Television (YCTV), 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 (SAS).
Personal life
Guinness was once dubbed "the It Girl of her generation" for her high-profile romantic liaisons.{{cite news|author= Davies, Hugh|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1342389/Guinness-It-Girl-on-arts-prize-shortlist.html|title= "Guinness 'It Girl' on arts prize shortlist"|work= The Daily Telegraph|date= 12 June 2000|access-date = 10 May 2020}} In 1979, she had a relationship with the then Prince Charles.{{cite news|date = 10 November 2013|access-date = 10 May 2020|title=Prince Charles and his relationships|author= Wilson, Christopher|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-charles/10436036/Prince-Charles-and-his-relationships.html|work=The Daily Telegraph}}
In 2014 she married playwright Tom Stoppard.{{Cite news |date=8 June 2014 |title=Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard marries brewery heiress Sabrina Guinness in Wimborne |work=Bournemouth Echo |url=https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/11264225.playwright-sir-tom-stoppard-marries-brewery-heiress-sabrina-guinness-in-wimborne/ |access-date=9 May 2020}} They live in Blandford, Dorset;{{Cite news |last=Murray, Douglas |author-link=Douglas Murray (author) |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/-i-aspire-to-write-for-posterity-an-interview-with-tom-stoppard|date=21 December 2019 |title='I aspire to write for posterity': An interview with Tom Stoppard |work=The Spectator |access-date=10 May 2020}} she also has a home in Notting Hill, west London.{{Cite news |last=Law |first=Katie |date=4 May 2016 |title=Tom Stoppard: I must say, marriage has made me nicer |work=Evening Standard |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/tom-stoppard-i-must-say-marriage-has-made-me-nicer-a3239666.html |access-date=10 May 2020}}
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Category:Irish television producers
Category:Irish women television producers