 She currently divides her time between studios in London and Italy.Her mother was the writer and commentator Elizabeth Young, her father, Wayland Hilton Young, 2nd Baron Kennet, a politician, conservationist and writer.Emily Young's paternal grandparents were the politician and writer Edward Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet and the sculptor Kathleen Scott, a colleague of Auguste Rodin and the widow of the polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott.