Who is Lady Edwina Grosvenor? Criminologist, philanthropist and sister of Hugh Grosvenor
LADY Edwina Snow is a minor royal and High Sheriff of Hampshire.
Here's what we know about her marriage, life and career.
Who is Lady Edwina Grosvenor?
Lady Edwina Grosvenor is the sister of billionaire Hugh Grosvenor, who is marrying Olivia Henson on Friday, June 7, 2024.
She was born in Eaton Hall, Cheshire, on November 4, 1981.
Edwina is the founder of two charities and has an honorary fellowship from Liverpool's John Moore University for her contribution to public life.
Her older sister is Lady Tamara Van Cutsem, who married Edward van Cutsem, one of Prince William's closest friends, in 2004.
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Edwina's younger sister, Lady Viola, quietly married Angus Roberts, of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, in 2022.
What does Lady Edwina Grosvenor do for a living?
Lady Edwina is most known for being a founder and trustee of her charity, The Clink.
It aims to rehabilitate prisoners through cooking.
Each inmate who works in a Clink restaurant studies for advanced NVQs in food preparation, service, cleaning and horticulture.
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They gain experience which they can use to find full-time employment when released.
The first restaurant opened in 2009 at HMP High Down, Surrey.
She's also the founder of the One Small Thing charity, which trains prison staff about trauma.
She first became interested in charity work at the age of 12, when she was taken to a rehabilitation centre in Liverpool.
At 15, she volunteered at a Save the Family homeless shelter.
In her gap year, she worked at a prison in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Lady Edwina studied Criminal Behaviour at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia, and in 2021, she graduated from Solent University with a masters' in criminology and crime scene management.
Grosvenor became an advisory board member to the Centre for Criminology at Oxford University in 2020, and also donated £90,000 to fund the Death Penalty Research Unit.
In 2022, she became the High Sheriff of Hampshire.
Who is Lady Edwina Grosvenor married to?
Lady Edwina Grosvenor married British television presenter Dan Snow in November 2010 in Woolton, Liverpool.
Dan has presented numerous history programmes for the BBC - most notably Battlefield Britain and 1066: A Year To Conquer England.
In 2022, Snow was a part of the Endurance22 expedition which found Sir Ernest Shackleton's lost ship, Endurance.
The ship sank on November 21, 1915, in the Weddell Sea.
In 2023, he danced with Nadiya Bychkova on the 2023 Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special.
A year later, he presented a documentary about Stonehenge which aired on Channel 5.
The couple have three children together.
Daughters Zia and Orla were born in 2011 and their son, Wolf Robert, was born in 2014.
Is Lady Edwina Grosvenor related to the royal family?
Lady Edwina's father was Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster.
She is descended from the Romanov imperial family of Russia, as well as the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin.
The late Diana, Princess of Wales was her godmother.
Although Edwina is the second child of Gerald and Natalia Grosvenor, ancient laws meant that as the first son, Hugh inherited the bulk of the family's fortune over his older sisters.
This is because of the centuries-old common law principle of primogeniture, by which the male heir inherits the title and entire estate.
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Edwina and Tamara inherited trust funds on their father's death in 2016.
She is 685th in line for the British throne.