Emma Soames


The Hon. Emma Soames is a British editor. She is the granddaughter of Winston Churchill via her mother, Mary, Baroness Soames, and the one-time girlfriend of Martin Amis.

Education

Soames was educated at three independent schools: at Laverock School in Oxted in Surrey, followed by Hamilton House School in Kent, followed by Queen's College in Harley Street in Central London. She then studied in Paris at the Sorbonne and the Ecoles de Sciences Politiques.

Life and career

Editor of Literary Review, Tatler, and ES Magazine, Soames was a long-serving editor of the Telegraph magazine, then editor of Saga Magazine. Her brother is Sir Nicholas Soames who was a Conservative minister of defence under Sir John Major.
In 2016 she appeared on a BBC Four show on the subject of Winston Churchill and his paintings.