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Rachel Johnson (Rachel Sabiha Johnson) was born on 3 September, 1965 in London, England, is a British journalist. Discover Rachel Johnson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old?

Popular As Rachel Sabiha Johnson
Occupation Author, presenter
Age 58 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 3 September, 1965
Birthday 3 September
Birthplace London, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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Who Is Rachel Johnson's Husband?

Her husband is Ivo Dawnay (m. 1992)

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Parents Stanley Johnson (father)Charlotte Johnson Wahl (mother)
Husband Ivo Dawnay (m. 1992)
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Children 3

Rachel Johnson Net Worth

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1922

On her father's side, Johnson is a great-granddaughter of Ali Kemal, a liberal Circassian-Turkish journalist and the interior minister in the government of Damat Ferid Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, who was murdered during the Turkish War of Independence in 1922.

During the First World War, her grandfather and great-aunt were recognised as British subjects and took their grandmother's maiden name of Johnson.

On her mother's side she is a granddaughter of Sir James Fawcett, a prominent barrister and president of the European Commission of Human Rights.

Johnson's middle name, Sabiha, means "morning" in Arabic and is often used as a given name in Turkey.

It was the name of the second wife of her great-grandfather, Ali Kemal, who was a daughter of Zeki Pasha.

1960

Stanley Johnson befriended his paternal half-uncle Zeki Kuneralp, Sabiha's son, when Kuneralp was Turkish ambassador to the Court of St James's in the 1960s.

She was educated at Winsford First School on Exmoor, Primrose Hill Primary in Camden, north London, the European School of Brussels, the independent Ashdown House School in East Sussex, Bryanston School in Dorset and St Paul's Girls' School.

1965

Rachel Sabiha Johnson (born 3 September 1965) is a British journalist, television presenter, and author who has appeared frequently on political discussion panels, including The Pledge on Sky News and BBC One's debate programme, Question Time.

1984

In 1984 she spent three months as a kibbutz volunteer and then went to New College, Oxford, to read Classics (Literae Humaniores); there she edited the student paper Isis and graduated with a 2:1.

1989

In 1989 she joined the staff of the Financial Times, becoming the first female graduate trainee at the paper, where she wrote about the economy.

1992

She spent a year on secondment to the Foreign Office Policy Planning Staff in 1992–93.

1994

She moved to the BBC in 1994, but left to move to Washington, D.C., as a columnist and freelancer in 1997.

She has written weekly columns for The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Telegraph, the Evening Standard and other regular columns for Easy Living and She magazines, as well as the Financial Times.

2008

Johnson's Shire Hell won the 2008 Bad Sex in Fiction Prize, which she described as being an "absolute honour".

Her short story "Severely Gifted" appeared in The Sunday Times on 21 December 2008.

Johnson was a member of the Conservative Party from 2008 to 2011, but later joined the Liberal Democrats in the run up to the 2017 general election because of the Conservative support for Brexit.

Johnson then considered becoming a Lib Dem candidate in a seat in the West Country, but was barred under the party's rules, having been a member for less than a year.

2009

She is a contributing editor of The Spectator and until 2009 was a weekly columnist on The Sunday Times and the Evening Standard, among other publications.

She now writes a weekly column in The Mail on Sunday, a column for The Big Issue and a column for The Oldie.

In September 2009, Johnson became the ninth editor of The Lady, a weekly magazine established in 1885.

Her first few months were the subject of a Channel 4 documentary entitled The Lady and the Revamp; this was nominated for a Grierson Award.

2012

She was replaced as editor by Matt Warren in January 2012.

2013

In March 2013 she presented an hour-long documentary for BBC Four entitled How to Be a Lady: An Elegant History.

2014

In April 2014 she was a judge in the BBC Woman's Hour power list 2014.

She sits on the boards of Bright Blue, the modernising Tory think-tank, and Intelligence Squared, the international debate forum.

In March 2014 she appeared in Famous, Rich and Hungry on BBC1.

2018

In January 2018, she participated in the 21st series of Celebrity Big Brother and was evicted second.

2019

She was the lead candidate for Change UK for the South West England constituency in the 2019 European Parliament election.

Johnson is the daughter of former Conservative MEP Stanley Johnson and artist Charlotte Johnson Wahl (née Fawcett).

She is the younger sister of Boris Johnson, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Conservative MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip; and the elder sister of Jo Johnson, former Conservative MP for Orpington.

In April 2019, she joined the new anti-Brexit party Change UK and was the lead candidate on the party list in South West England at the 2019 European Parliament election.

She later lamented this decision, describing herself as the "rat that jumped onto a sinking ship" and criticised the party leadership's focus-group attitude to decision-making structure and added that Change UK was a "terrible" name.

Johnson is married to Ivo Dawnay, a descendant of William Dawnay, 7th Viscount Downe, and maternal grandson of Patrick Boyle, 8th Earl of Glasgow.

Dawnay is a director and consultant with the National Trust.

They have three children.

Johnson lives in Notting Hill in London and Exmoor, Somerset.

2020

She is a former panellist on Sky News' weekly debate show, The Pledge, production of which was suspended in 2020.