Personal Life
In May 2005, she met Hollywood actress Natalie Portman to discuss the microfinance charity, FINCA International, and their joint plans to help the world's poorest people become self-sufficient. She is married to Michael (former geology schoolteacher, and councillor on Poole Borough Council since 2003) with two daughters (born c. 1971 and 1973) and is a partner in her family firm selling rocks and minerals, started in 1987. They live in Broadstone.
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