Neil and Lady Sarah McCorquodale have three children: Neil is a 2nd cousin once removed of Lady Sarah's stepmother, Raine Spencer. Sarah married Neil Edmund McCorquodale (born 4 October 1951), son of Alastair McCorquodale and Rosemary Sybil Turnor, on in Northamptonshire, England. After passing O Level exams, she left West Heath to work in London.
She was educated firstly at Riddlesworth Hall School in Norfolk and secondly at West Heath boarding school near Sevenoaks in Kent.
She suffered from the eating disorder anorexia nervosa in her early twenties. Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia Spencer was born with the honorific 'The Honourable' she acquired the courtesy title 'Lady' in 1975, when her grandfather died and her father became the 8th Earl Spencer.