Personal Life
Abbott married David Thompson, a Ghanaian architect, in 1991; they divorced in 1993. They had one son together. Abbott chose her Conservative MP voting pair, Jonathan Aitken, as her son's godfather.
In 2007, Abbott began learning the piano under the tutelage of Paul Roberts, Professor of Piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, for the TV programme Play It Again. She performed Chopin's Prelude No. 4 in E minor before an audience.
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