Jacquetta Wheeler

Who is Jacquetta Wheeler?

Jacquetta Wheeler is an English model. Her father, Stuart Wheeler, is an entrepreneur and political activist for the UK Independence Party, and mother Tessa is a photographer.

Wheeler is the second of three children. She has an older sister, Sarah, and a younger sister Charlotte. Through her mother, she is the descendant of many royal and noble figures, including Henry VII. As a child, Wheeler lived a comfortable, affluent lifestyle with her family in English. At the age of fifteen, she was discovered by Italian fashion designer Stephan Jansen. Jansen asked Wheeler to go to Milan and appear in his fashion show. Later that year, she was stopped in England on her way to a salon by noted fashion photographer Mario Testino.

By the age of 17, Wheeler was on the cover of French Vogue and part of a Gucci advertisement campaign. Although she continued to go to school at The King's School, Canterbury—in Luxmoore House, where she was taught by Peter Brodie—Wheeler would often take off days to shoot for fashion companies, such as Calvin Klein, Prada, and The Gap.

In 1999, The Face magazine declared her the 'Model of the Millennium'.