Princess Margaret’s Grandson Samuel Chatto Is Engaged to Eleanor Ekserdjian
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Samuel Chatto, a grandson of the late Princess Margaret, is engaged to his longtime girlfriend, Eleanor Ekserdjian. The couple announced the news publicly on Monday after informing King Charles, who is said to be very happy for them. Chatto’s parents, Lady Sarah Chatto and Daniel Chatto, are also reported to be delighted, as are Ekserdjian’s parents, Professor David Ekserdjian and Susan Moore.
“I’m really delighted to say that Ellie and I are engaged,” Chatto wrote on Instagram, sharing a trio of photos, including two portraits of the couple and one of Eleanor’s porcelain engagement ring, which was made by Chatto himself. “And we couldn’t be happier.” The couple are planning to marry in spring 2027, but no specific date has been announced yet.
Chatto and Ekserdjian have reportedly been together since 2021, having met while both studying at the University of Edinburgh. Ekserdjian joined Chatto and the wider royal family for the Christmas Day service at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham in December 2024, and more recently attended the Cotswolds wedding of Peter Phillips and Harriete Sperling in June.
At 30th in the line of succession, Chatto is not a working royal, but he appears at major family events. He attended Eton College before graduating from the University of Edinburgh with a master’s degree in history of art. He went on to attend the Royal Drawing School. He has since built a career as an artist, working primarily in ceramics and printmaking.
Ekserdjian is also an artist, with a focus on painting and film. She recently shot her first film, Imagined Landscapes (2024). According to her bio from a recent exhibition at the David Messums Fine Art Gallery in London, the movie “portrays her first sight of Armenia, a landscape that she had always imagined but had never seen, as someone who grew up in the UK with a curiosity about her Armenian family.” In May and June of 2026, her first solo presentation, We Are Our Mountains, ran at Messums London, featuring simultaneous landscape paintings from Armenia and the United Kingdom alongside a film and sound installation.
