Aunt of Alexandra Aitken and Victoria Aitken.
Ex-stepmother of Laura Davenport.
Graduated from Oxford University, where she performed with OUDS.
Mother, with Nigel Davenport, of Jack Davenport.
She was educated at Riddlesdown Hall in Norfolk; Sherborne School for Girls in Sherborne, Dorset and St. Anne's College, Oxford University.
Younger sister of former British Conservative Cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken, daughter of Conservative MP Sir William Aitken, and great-niece of Lord Beaverbrook.