Kinvara Balfour

Lady Kinvara Clare Rachel Balfour (born 1975), second daughter of a Scottish earl and niece of the Duke of Norfolk, is an English playwright and novelist. "Dazed & Abused", her first play, premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2004, where it was completely sold out during its three-week run. It later transferred to London and New York where Diane von Fürstenberg made her studio theatre available for the production. Balfour has also acted, performed and written other works. She has had a particularly successful career as a fashion commentator and trend analyst, and since her work as fashion editor of the Saturday Telegraph, now runs the London wing of the American based company DailyCandy.com.

Family connections

Her father Roderick is the 5th Earl of Balfour (descended from the British Prime Minister Arthur Balfour). Her mother Tessa is the eldest daughter of the late 17th Duke of Norfolk, Myles Fitzalan-Howard and his wife, the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk (formerly Anne Constable-Maxwell). The title of Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Arundel and Earl Marshal of England, is the oldest and premier British aristocratic title after the Royal Family, the Norfolks are direct descendents of King Edward I and Queen Elizabeth I and they are also the leading Catholic family in Britain. Kinvara is thus the niece of the current 18th Duke of Norfolk Edward Fitzalan-Howard, and also the niece of his sister the actress Marsha Fitzalan and niece by marriage of Sir David Frost.

Education

She attended St. Mary's Convent School, South Ascot.

External links

*Darryl Lundy, Peerage database [www.thepeerage.com] , for information on Balfour's family