Annabel Elliot

Sonia Annabel Elliot (née Shand; born 2 February 1949), known as Annabel Elliot, is a British interior designer and antiques dealer. She is the sister of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.

Family

Elliot is the daughter of Major Bruce Shand (1917–2006) and his wife, the Hon. Rosalind Maud Cubitt (1921–1994), daughter of the 3rd Baron Ashcombe and Sonia Rosemary Keppel. Her elder sister is Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and her brother was travel writer Mark Shand (1951–2014). Elliot went to Florence, Italy to study fine art.

On 27 April 1972, at the age of 23, she married Simon Elliot, a Dorset landowner and son of Air Chief Marshal Sir William Elliot and Rosemary Chancellor. They have three children: Ben, Alice and Catherine.

Her daughter Alice and husband Luke Irwin are also interior designers and antiques dealers.

Career

Elliot is the founder of Annabel Elliot Interior design and antiques, which is based in Dorset. The shop has been running for 30 years. She is also the co-founder of Gillingham-based antiques and interiors emporium Talisman.

Elliot has been employed by her brother-in-law Prince Charles. She is the chief interior designer of his estates. She first began renovating the Duchy of Cornwall estates. She has designed the interior of 12 Duchy of Cornwalls cottages on the Isles of Scilly, holiday cottages at Restormel Castle and has also performed work on Prince Charles’s estate Llwynywermod in Wales. In 2011, Elliot renovated Bovey Castle Hotel in Devon and received recognition and positive feedback as an interior designer. Bovey Castle Hotel made the 2011 Gold List as one of the world's best places to stay. The same year she helped furnish the new sustainable building of The Duchy Nursery in Lostwithiel. Elliot furnished Dumfries Lodge House in Ayrshire, Scotland which was opened for business by Prince Charles in 2012. Elliot also furnished the Highgrove House Shops, which sells products for home and garden.

In 2014, the Daily Telegraph ranked Elliot as the fifth most influential female interior designer in Britain.

Charity work

Elliot has been a patron of British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) since 2005, she cites her mother Rosalind, who worked for an adoption agency, for influencing her to support the charity. She is also a life member and patron of the Elephant Family, which her brother Mark was chairman until his death in 2014.

Ancestry