Arm in arm, Earl of Snowdon and new love step out
WHEN the Earl of Snowdon announced his separation from his wife, Serena, in 2020, friends blamed the amount of time that the Queen’s nephew had to spend working abroad.
It seems that he has, however, now managed to find love again — at the office. I hear that Princess Margaret’s 60-year-old son is enjoying a touching romance with a colleague, Isabelle de La Bruyere.
Isabelle, who’s believed to be in her 50s, is a director of Christie’s, while he’s the honorary chairman of the London auction house.
David and Isabelle could have been teenage lovebirds as they strolled hand in hand through Belgravia, where he has a branch of his furniture shop, Linley. The pair walked arm in arm as they carried shopping bags from posh cake shop Peggy Porschen.
They could later be seen dining à deux on a restaurant terrace.
‘They looked like they were happy to be seen together and didn’t have a care in the world,’ a passer-by tells me. ‘It was rather sweet.’
French-born Isabelle, who’s fluent in at least three European languages, has been employed by Christie’s since 1999. She joined as head of Oriental Art studies before working her way up to becoming a senior director.
She also launched the auctioneer’s Dubai branch in 2006 before moving to London in 2013 to join the chairman’s office. David, who’s the son of celebrated late photographer Lord Snowdon and a godchild of the Queen, was first appointed to the board of Christie’s in 2005 before becoming chairman of its British branch a year later.
In 2015, he became honorary chairman for the auctioneer in Europe, the Middle East, Russia and India.
It would be the first known romance for David since he separated from Serena, 52, after 27 years of marriage. She’s the daughter of the 12th Earl of Harrington.
The pair have two children, Charles, 22, Viscount Linley, and Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones, who was a bridesmaid at the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding.