Lucinda Lambton

Career Lambton has researched, written and presented 55 films for the BBC and 25 films for ITV. They include On The Throne – The History of the Lavatory, The Great North Road, A Cabinet of Curiosities and The Other House of Windsor. Sublime Suburbia, her series of four films for ITV about the architectural and historic delights of London's suburbs, won the Regional Television award for the best documentary series of 2003. A further series of Sublime Suburbia in six parts, followed in 2004.

She has written and taken the photographs for 14 books including: Temples of Convenience, a history of the lavatory; Beastly Buildings, about architecture for animals; Vanishing Victoriana; An Album of Curious Houses and Lucinda Lambton's A-Z of Britain, a companion to the 26-part television series for the BBC.

She has made several series for BBC Radio 4, including Bringing the House Down, Elevations and Revelations, Pride of Place, an argument against modern architecture, Hidden Treasures and Listed, illuminating efforts of the Twentieth Century Society to save notable post-World War II buildings. She has been a castaway on Desert Island Discs.

Lambton is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines, including The Oldie, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, Country Life, and the Daily Mail.

Honours and affiliations She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and an honorary member of the Chelsea Arts Club, as well as President of the Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings. She is a patron of the Cinema Theatre Association. She is an Honorary Vice President of The Crossness Engines Trust. She is president of the Garden History Society.

Personal life When Lambton's father's died in 2006, he left his entire estate to his youngest child, Edward Lambton, 7th Earl of Durham. Lambton, her sisters Lady Anne Lambton and Lady Beatrix Neville subsequently sought a share of their father's estate. The sisters contested to have the dispute heard in Italy, arguing that Italian succession law entitled the children to equal shares of a family estate. In May 2013, their brother initiated proceedings in the High Court seeking to have the matter heard in England rather than Italy. The dispute was settled out of court in January 2014, with the three sisters reportedly receiving a combined £5 million.

Marriages On 16 January 1965, Lambton married Henry Mark Harrod, eldest son of Sir Roy Harrod. They were divorced in 1973. In January 1986, she married Sir Edmund Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy, 6th Baronet, and divorced him in 1989.

In May 1991, Lambton married journalist Sir Peregrine Worsthorne, who was 19 years her senior. A portrait of the couple taken by Denis Waugh in 1993 is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. They lived in Hedgerley, Buckinghamshire. Worsthorne died at the age of 96 in October 2020.