Susan Barrantes

Born Susan Mary Wright on June 9, 1937 in England, the daughter of Lieutenant, FitzHerbert Wright and Doreen Wingfield.

On January 17, 1956 she married Major Ronald Ivor Ferguson (b. 1931) with whom she had two daughters: Jane Louisa, born on August 26, 1957, and Sarah Margaret, later the Duchess of York, born on October 15, 1959.

From childhood, Susan’s interests revolved around horses and she was a keen show jumper and avid polo player that provided a connection to the British Royal Family. Her husband Ronald would become the Queen's polo manager.

Divorced, she married a second time in 1975 to professional polo player and widower, Hector Barrantes of Argentina. She moved to Argentina where she and her husband maintained a large ranch at El Pucara, breeding polo ponies and cattle. In 1990 her second husband died of cancer in 1990.

Shortly before an automobile accident that took her life on September 19, 1998, Mrs. Barrantes authored a book titled POLO with the Foreword written by the Prince of Wales.

She is buried in La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.