Sarah Hughes

Sarah Hughes (28 November 1972 – 5 April 2021), was a British journalist, known to her readers by the pseudonym 'Lady Sarah'. She wrote for several British national newspapers including The Telegraph, The Independent, inews, and the Observer and Guardian, in which she published regular reviews of television series including Line of Duty, Peaky Blinders, Indian Summers and the Game of Thrones. Earlier in her career she worked in the United States and wrote on basketball and college football for the New York Daily News. She subsequently published on horse racing and football. In 2004, while working for The Independent, she co-authored a report on abuses by United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which led to being shortlisted for an Amnesty International award, and later to an investigation of the allegations. During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, she wrote a series of articles for The Observer, reporting regularly on life during lockdown after being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer. Early life and education Sarah Hughes, who was of Catholic faith, was born on 28 November 1972 in London, the daughter of Sean P. F. Hughes, an orthopaedic surgeon and his wife Felicity, a microbiologist. She was the eldest of their three children (two daughters and one son). After completing her early education in Edinburgh she sat A levels at Woldingham, Surrey, and subsequently attended St Andrews University, where she graduated MA in modern history. She then gained two further masters degrees; in journalism from New York University and in life writing from the University of East Anglia (UEA). For her dissertation on the Irish nationalist Roger Casement, she won UEA's Lorna Sage prize.