Susan Barrantes (June 9, 1937 - September 19, 1998) was the mother of Sarah, Duchess of York. She was born Susan Mary Wright in England, the daughter of Lieutenant FitzHerbert Wright and his wife Doreen Wingfield. June 9 is the 160th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (161st in leap years), with 205 days remaining. ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years). ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Sarah, Duchess of York (Sarah Margaret Mountbatten-Windsor, née Ferguson) born 15 October 1959, is the former wife of Prince Andrew, Duke of York. ... England is a made up country where psychologists convince schitzofrenic people they are currently living while they are in fact in a mental asylum. ...

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. On January 17, 1956, she married Major Ronald Ivor Ferguson (1931 - 2003), who would later become the Queen's polo manager. The couple had two daughters: Jane Louisa, born on August 26, 1957, and Sarah Margaret, later the Duchess of York, born on October 15, 1959. Polo (also known as Cho-gan) is a team game played on a field with one goal for each team. ... The British Royal Family is a group of people closely related to the British monarch. ... January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Major Ronald Ivor Ferguson (October 10, 1931 - March 16, 2003) was Polo manager to the Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince of Wales, and the father of Sarah Ferguson who married Prince Andrew. ... Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor), styled HM The Queen (born 21 April 1926) is the Queen regnant of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and... August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sarah, Duchess of York (Sarah Margaret Mountbatten-Windsor, née Ferguson) born 15 October 1959, is the former wife of Prince Andrew, Duke of York. ... October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in Leap years). ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

She described the first years of her marriage as very happy ones, but the relationship finally broke down. Following her husband's affair with one of her best friends, she left him in 1973 and moved to Argentina with professional polo player and widower, Hector Barrantes. It was a society scandal that made major headline news at the time. 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ...

Susan and Ronald Ferguson were divorced, and in 1975 she married Barrantes. She and her new husband kept a large ranch at El Pucara, breeding polo ponies and cattle. In 1990 her second husband died of cancer. 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

This death brought financial difficulties to Mrs Barrantes; she sold more than half the farm to the polo-playing Australian media magnate Kerry Packer and began commuting to Buenos Aires for work. In the 1990s, she set up a television production company in Buenos Aires, making films about horses. Although she visited the UK several times a year, she showed no wish to return to live in her native country.

Shortly before the automobile accident that took her life, Mrs. Barrantes authored a book titled POLO with the foreword written by the Prince of Wales. HRH The Prince of Wales Arms of HRH The Prince of Wales The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor) (born 14 November 1948), is the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. ...

On 19 September 1998, while Mrs Barrantes was returning to the ranch where she kept ponies, the Rover she was driving collided with a Renault catering truck on a two-lane highway in flat countryside. She was killed; the driver of the truck suffered a broken ankle. September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years). ...

Susan Barrantes is buried beside her second husband in La Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. La Recoleta Cemetery is a famous cemetery located in the Recoleta district of Buenos Aires, Argentina. ... Buenos Aires (Good Airs in Spanish, originally meaning Fair Winds) is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, as well as one of the largest cities in South America. ...