Sarah, Duchess of York, is a bestselling author, philanthropist and public speaker. 

For over 30 years, The Duchess has been committed to children’s and wellness causes with a focus on education. She has traveled the globe to witness the projects firsthand and has personally raised significant donations for causes that share her passion for change.   In 1993, she founded Children in Crisis to provide education to forgotten children around the world, and the charity has educated over 1.4 million children. 

 Recently, the Duchess launched her own international non-profit, Sarah’s Trust (www.sarahstrust.com).    In its first project, at the start of the pandemic, The Duchess mobilized an ongoing national response to benefit over 150,000 NHS, care homes, hospice, and emergency services staff. 

At the same time, the Duchess launched a new daily YouTube show, ‘ Storytime with Fergie and Friends’, reading a series of different children’s books, sometimes with guests, to help keep children entertained during lockdown.   To date, there have been 20 million views, and these stories have been distributed to children’s hospitals throughout the UK and US, accompanied by messages personally recorded by The Duchess. For this series, The Duchess has recently been given the ‘Special Recognition of Services to Storytelling‘ award by the Montessori Group.

The Duchess has published over 70 books, including two autobiographies and other titles dealing with health, empowerment, history, art, as well as novels and children’s stories. Her debut historical novel, Her Heart for a Compass, was published globally on August 3rd by Harper Collins and was a Sunday Times bestseller. Her second historical novel ‘A Most Intriguing Lady‘ was published by Harper Collins to critical acclaim in the US and UK in March and is again a Sunday Times Bestseller (no. 5).  

Other books include Demon’s Land – recently awarded the prestigious’ Literary Titan’ – the first in a series of three young adult books co-written with Michelle Worthington. 

A twenty-two book series for young readers has been signed with Serenity Press in Australia and New Zealand, including The Enchanted Oak Tree, Genie Gems and Arthur Fantastic, Charlie, Blue, and Larry Lamp Post (awarded the Triton Gold Award 2022), What’s Under Your Hat, Granny; A Gift of Kindness, the first two books in the Puddle Boots Series – Puddle Boots and Puddle Boots Christmas, and Budgie the Little Helicopter Rescues Kubbie the Koala.   Three books from the original Helping Hands series have been re-released. Other previous children’s books include the series of Budgie the Little Helicopter, adapted into a highly successful animated series on US primetime Fox, and the children’s book Tea for Ruby, published by Simon and Schuster, which had its debut at the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Other books include What I Know Now: Lessons Learnt The Hard Way and a five-book children’s series about the adventures of Little Red. The Duchess retraced Queen Victoria’s travels abroad to co-write Travels with Queen Victoria and Osborne House.

The Duchess is a regular speaker and panelist at book festivals and global forums focusing on subjects including women in business, women and wellness, human rights, and the need to help more children in the world’s most underprivileged places into education. She has received numerous awards for her philanthropic work, including The Order of the Smile, an international award given by children to adults distinguished by their love and care for children.

The Duchess is Co-Founder of the Montessori Group Education for the Future Fund and Chair of the International Montessori Ambassadors Group. She is a Global Ambassador to the Kindness Research Foundation and an Ambassador for the Puglia area of Italy. She is a passionate supporter of The Teenage Cancer Trust, opening nearly all of their 28 units nationwide over the past 30 years.   She supports the work of Teen Cancer America; and Patronages include Julia’s House Children’s Hospice, Kirkwood Hospice, Ruddi’s Retreat, The Children’s Air Ambulance, The Children’s Literacy Charity, The International Dyslexia Association, Mullany Fund, and the Indian Head Injury Fund. She champions Key to Freedom, a business structure initiative set up to support the Women’s Interlink Foundation (WIF) by giving vulnerable young women a platform to sell their products. WIF works across West Bengal, India, helping these women develop skills to earn an income.

The Duchess is mother to Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie of York and is a grandmother of three.    She is lovingly referred to as “Super Gran” for her passionate dedication to the hearts of children all over the world.  She lives in Windsor with five Norfolk terriers and two corgis.

Bio: Laura is a three-time Olympian, Olympic gold medalist, World Champion, and five-time Hall of Fame inductee. After nine years of retirement, she returned to the sport she loves and, at 43 years old, qualified for the finals of the 2021 Olympic Trials. Her passion for pacing challenges head-on and overcoming every obstacle that stands in her way will motivate an audience to rise and discover their greatness. She is an author and podcast host. 

Residing in The Woodlands, Laura owns a coaching business teaching athletes the mindset of a champion.

Jenna Hager is the cohost of the fourth hour of the Today Show with Hoda Kotb and the founder of the Today book club, Read with Jenna.

She is the co-author of the #1 New York Times best seller Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope, which she wrote after traveling to Latin America in 2006 as an intern with UNICEF. Ana’s Story is based on the life of a 17-year-old single mother with HIV who struggles to shield her child from the life she had of abuse and neglect. Jenna remains involved with UNICEF and is currently chairing its Next Generation initiative to reduce childhood deaths worldwide.

Jenna is also the co-author of two #1 New York Times bestselling children’s books that she wrote with her mother, Laura—Our Great Big Backyard and Read All About It—as well as the #1 New York Times bestsellers Sisters First, written with her sister, Barbara, in both adult and children’s editions. Jenna’s most recent book, Everything Beautiful in Time, shares moving, funny stories about her beloved grandparents and the wisdom they passed on that has shaped her life.

Jenna holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the daughter of former U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush. In 2008, she married Henry Hager. Jenna and Henry are the proud parents of their three children, Margaret Laura “Mila,” Poppy Louise Hager, and Henry Harold “Hal” Hager.