Love is in the air for one handsome young royal – and it looks like it’s getting serious.
Sam Chatto is the grandson of Princess Margaret, the late Queen Elizabeth’s younger sister. Photo: @samchatto/Instagram
Chatto and Ekserdjian have been dating for around three years and share a passion for the creative arts. Here’s what we know about the potential new royal family member.
What is Eleanor Ekserdjian’s background?
Eleanor Ekserdjian is the daughter of an art professor and art critic. Photo: @e.ekserdjian/Instagram
Although Eleanor doesn’t appear to have any blue-blooded connections, she was born into a prominent family. Her father, David Ekserdjian, is a professor in the history of art and film at the University of Leicester, and is also a trustee of Art UK and the Sir John Soane’s Museum, according to the Daily Mail. He was previously a trustee of the National Gallery and the Tate too. He’s married to Financial Times art critic Susan Moore.
She studied at the University of Edinburgh
Eleanor Ekserdjian was born in 1996. Photo: @e.ekserdjian/Instagram
From 2014 to 2019, Ekserdjian did a five-year master’s degree in fine art at the University of Edinburgh. The course is described as an “equal split between art practice and art history”. Notably, Chatto is also a University of Edinburgh graduate, having completed an MA in the history of art in 2018. In 2021, Ekserdjian joined the Royal Drawing School – two years after Chatto studied at the same institution in 2019.
She’s an artist