Lucinda Lambton was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, the eldest child of the Conservative defence minister Lord Lambton, then heir to the Lambton Castle estates [REF].
Lambton spent a year at Queen's Gate School, London, then went to a finishing school in Florence,[REF] but she ended her education without gaining any qualifications and became a professional photographer working for various newspapers[REF] including the Evening Standard [REF].