Dame Sarah Rose Troughton is the Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire, appointed with effect from February 2012.
11 Facts About Sarah Troughton
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Sarah Troughton is the first woman to hold the position since it was created in the 16th century.
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Sarah Troughton is the eldest of the five children of Sir Timothy Colman KG, a past Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk, and Lady Mary Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, a granddaughter of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne.
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Sarah Troughton's maternal grandfather Michael Bowes-Lyon, who died two days before her birth, was a brother of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, so that she is a second cousin once removed of the present Earl of Strathmore and a first cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II.
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From 1990 to 2000, Troughton was lady-in-waiting to the Duchess of Kent.
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Sarah Troughton became a Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire in 2006.
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In January 2013, Sarah Troughton was appointed a Commander of the Order of St John by the Queen, and advanced to Dame of Grace of the order in 2021.
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Sarah Troughton was appointed a Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 2025 New Year Honours.
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Sarah Troughton's grandson, Nicholas Barclay, son of her daughter Rose, was a page of honour at the coronation of King Charles III.
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Sarah Troughton's husband was later a director of the Lowland Investment Company PLC in the City of London, a trustee of the Royal Collection and Pro-Chancellor of the University of Bath.
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Sarah Troughton is a trustee of the Rothschild Foundation and a member of the Salisbury Diocesan Board of Finance.