Trivia

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.

Directing "The 39 Steps" at the Tricycle Theatre, London. Book by John Buchan, adapted by Patrick Barlow and compromising a cast of just 4 playing nearly a 100 roles between them! (August 2006)

Graduated from Oxford University, where she performed with OUDS.

Younger sister of former British Conservative Cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken, daughter of Conservative MP Sir William Aitken, and great-niece of Lord Beaverbrook.

Aunt of Alexandra Aitken and Victoria Aitken.

She was the great niece of Lord Beverbrook.

Ex-stepmother of Laura Davenport.

Author of 'A Girdle Round the Earth' (1988), a story of some of the more remarkable women travellers of the last 200 years, and 'Style: Acting in High Comedy' (1996) and Acting in Restoration Comedy (1998).

Patron of the British Thyroid Foundation since 1992.

Appointed a Trustee of the Noël Coward Foundation in 2012.