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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.
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.
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.
She is buried in La Recoleta CemeteryLa Recoleta Cemetery is a famous cemetery located in the Recoleta district of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The fashionable area around the cemetery is home to some of the city's wealthiest citizens, who frown on the "wrong" people being buried there next to s in Buenos AiresBuenos Aires (BWEH-naus EYE-ress, meaning "Good Winds" in Spanish) is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, as well as one of the largest in South America. The city proper has a population of close to 3 million, while the Greater Buenos, the capital of Argentina.
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