Arabella Lennox-Boyd , Lady Lennox-Boyd (born 1938) is an Italian-born English garden designer.
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Born in Rome as Arabella Parisi, she is a daughter of Piero Parisi and a granddaughter of a Marshal of Italy, General Armando Diaz, 1st Duke della Vittoria.[1] She later settled in England where she later undertook a course in Landscape Architecture at Thames Polytechnic, which went on to become part of the University of Greenwich.[1]
Lady Lennox-Boyd has won five gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show (1990, 1993, 1995, 1998 and 2000) and the Best in Show Award in 1998. Over a career spanning 30 years, she has undertaken commissions all over the world, ranging from small town gardens to large historical landscapes. Her client list includes Sting, Sir Terence Conran and Queen Paola of Belgium.
In 1990, she was commissioned to work on the gardens at Eaton Hall in Cheshire with the 6th Duke of Westminster and his wife, Natalia.[2]
Arabella Parisi married, as her first husband, Philippe LaCloche de Heaulme de Vallombreuse, a son of Nathalie Volpi, Countess di Misurata (née Nathalie El-Kanoui), by her first husband. They were divorced and had one daughter, Dominique.[3][2]
She married, as her second husband, Mark Lennox-Boyd (born 1943), youngest son of Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, on 29 June 1974; he was knighted in 1994 and is now Sir Mark Lennox-Boyd. They have one child, Patricia Irene Lennox-Boyd (born 13 August 1980), who is an artist.[3]