Biography
Born as Brenda Mary Hugh-Jones, daughter of Llewellyn Arthur Hugh-Jones, Governor of Faiyum in Egypt, and Dulcibella Eden, a cousin of Anthony Eden, she was educated at Queen Anne's School, Caversham. She earned a scholarship to attend Oxford University, but left without graduating, in order to join her father in Cairo.
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